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SI: Rockets gaining on Mavs, Spurs in Southwest Division

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by SpiffyRifi, Sep 4, 2007.

  1. SpiffyRifi

    SpiffyRifi Member

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    A good article about the Southwest Division, lots of favorable Rockets stuff. I'm just including the Rockets' portion

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/steve_aschburner/09/03/southwest.grades/index.html
     
  2. Sofine81

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    That is like the second time I have heard that...I wouldnt mind it I guess, if it didnt cost us much.
     
  3. wreck

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    I think it would be a bad move as far as chemistry is concerned. We will already see some problems with personality and lets not forget the old "hit mike james in the face with the ball, because he called me a B****" move that JHoward pulled.
     
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    Cuban must be salivating for Scolar. :D
     
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    MJ and howard have talked about that, i thought, and said it was just in the heat of the moment.

    with the other guys on this team you are worried about howards personality problems? Howard is a class act pro and he is very well respected
     
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    What Went Wrong:

    • Juwan Howard went to Minnesota ...
    ... to play with Kevin Garnett. Oops! Howard would have been a better fit right where he was, a veteran frontcourt guy on a Rockets team that is ready to contend. The Wolves seem willing to move him to someone who's not rebuilding so, who knows, he might even return.



    I do not see how that is a thing that went wrong :rolleyes:

    we deserve at leat an "A" if we take this one out.
     
  7. JoeBarelyCares

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    Rafer and Reed for Juwan! :D
     
  8. Deckard

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    We have Scola signed long enough to have his Bird rights. Is that groovy, or what? :cool:
     
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    ya, and we got 5 expiring contracts next year. It should be very interesting as to what we are going to do with that situation.
     
  10. BigM

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    the beautiful thing about this article is that they had to reach to find a couple "what went wrong" items. sign of a good summer right there.

    clearly moving juwan for james is a what went right move, even if it cost us some of howard's leadership. rafer's arrests weren't good but considering the addition of 3 new pg's it's not so bad.
     
  11. Sofine81

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    makes me wonder if the arrests and they singings dont go hand in hand?
     
  12. vlaurelio

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    is he saying acquiring for mike james was wrong?
     
  13. Fuse

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    As BigM alluded to... they are really stretching to find something wrong with our off season.
     
  14. AGBee

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    We got dinged because Minny traded Garnett!
     
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    What Went Wrong:

    • Juwan Howard went to Minnesota ...
    ... to play with Kevin Garnett. Oops! Howard would have been a better fit right where he was, a veteran frontcourt guy on a Rockets team that is ready to contend. The Wolves seem willing to move him to someone who's not rebuilding so, who knows, he might even return.

    things that are nonexistant, overrated and went-wrong:

    Juwan Howard's leadership,
    Rafer Alston's "pureness" on PG play,
    JVG's coaching.

    --------2 down, 1 to go.
     
  16. intergalactic

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    We don't have any need for Juwan, since Scola looks like he'll do everthing Juwan did, except better. He's not worth it financially, unless he were waived by Minnesota and we paid him the minimum. There's really no one that we could reasonably get rid of for him, though.
     
  17. zong

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    A- is good enough, but the playoff wins are the key, not regular season record.
     
  18. doublehh03

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    enough w/ all the talk. i can't wait for the season. my anticipation increases tenfold every time one of these type of articles is posted.

    i just hope we stay healthy for ONCE. my goodness, is that so hard to ask?
     
  19. couple of d's

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    i know some will disagree with me, but right now we are a better team than the Utah Jazz, and it sucks that they will probably be ranked ahead of us by the talking heads just because they made the wcf last year.
     
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    Fixed it for ya...
     

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