We only have Mle, and i really don't think we can make any improvement with that alone. We def. need some trades. So with that Mle, Rockets should be looking to get a good 3pt, tall, and defensive player to play SG. LIkE James Posey e.t.c. In the draft we should go after DEE BROWN of ILLINOIS. Dee brown could be the perfect PG for this team. Quick, great shooter, good passer. He can be our pefect backup until he can start. If we get Posey and Brown then that alone will make our team more defensive, faster, and have the ability to knock down more 3's.
There was a recent topic about 2006 FAs and I responded in there. I will put my response here as well since it fits. While I think it is clear the Rockets could use an upgrade at the SG/Swingman position next to Tmac, I think ultimately the Rockets just need an upgrade in shooting/scoring. They could use a backup SF, backup PG, a 3rd scorer overall - perhaps at the SG position. They could also use more speed/quickness/youth and players with a pitbull mentallity. The names I listed above in my opinion are realistic names of people that could fill any of the holes I mentioned above.
The way JJ played on Senior Night might have dropped him down to where he'd be available to us in the draft.
Yeah, that guy can't carry a team, but he'd look great as our SG. All we need is somebody to consistently knock down open 3s. We're near the bottom of the league in 3pt shooting. You can't have that when you've got a big man like Yao drawing double and triple teams in the paint. You can get away with guarding Yao with some 6'8 guy because that guy has helpers sagging off of our guards because our guards can't hit open 3s. In today's NBA game with zone defenses, nothing is more important than shooting. JVG can get a bunch of guys like Bowen and Bogans to hustle around the court, but I'd rather have a guy like Redick who plays just average D, but busts zones on the other end.
He can't shoot and has lost a step. And he's more of a SF than SG. I'd like him, but I can see why others wouldn't.
lets just hope posey opts out! he is the best fit available this summer. VERY good defender. good 3pt shooter. athletic and young.
I would draft J.J. Redick with anything outside a top 3 pick. At least from where we are likely going to draft, 10-20. He could potentially be a variation of Reggie Miller, Michael Redd or Rip Hamilton, and at worst he would be our Jon Barry replacement. We can live with his defensive deficiencies (hell, he couldn't get burned any worse than the way Carmelo lit up Wesley). I've had my problems with JVG's system, but it is a defense that can minimize faults, where you can hide a poor defender. And unless we're drafting at the top and getting a can't miss prospect, I'd rather draft a guy that has a skill that we desperately need, over a project that may or may not have all the tools to be a good player.
I will be rooting for that trend to continue. The more his stock drops the better chance the Rockets have to draft him. Reddick and Spanoulis would be good additions to our backourt.
I hope, if we do get Redick, he won't suffer the same disease that's hit every other good shooter-- see Rice, Piatkowski, Wesley-- we've gotten in recent years: acute brickosis. The hope is that Redick's younger legs will be the difference, and we'll finally have a decent, consistent, long-range threat. Man, if other teams couldn't leave our two guards wide open to go double down on Yao, the scoring we could do!
imo, the reason these "shooters" had difficulty hitting shots with the rockets has a lot to do with the last two coaches we've had. jvg is sooo concentrated on detail and intensity and mistake free ball that i think "shooting specialists" aren't able to loosen up mentally. for a shooter, that's a death sentence. rudy, especially during the francis/cat years (ugh) was so uncreative offensively that shooters (and non-shooters) just stood around with their thumbs in their bums. it's real hard to shoot like that.
posey i think would be a great pickup, he is a great hustle player (definetly won't be in the dog house), and if we ever need some energy off the bench maybe we can bring posey in instead of bowen
This post is dead-on. I'd love to see us draft Redick, because I think probability has it that JVG will get the axe next year or right after and we will swing the coaching pendelum the other way. Coaches like him have a lifespan, and I think he's getting toward the end of his useful life. Its the nature of the game, coaches turn every 4-5 years, often sooner, but rarely later.
I thought the new CBA has a set percentage of what teams must pay based on international players current contracts. I forgot how much we'd have to pay V-Span under his his current contract but it is my understanding that the money would come out of our MLE. Am I mistaken?
