[Sports Radio 610] By mutal agreement, the Rockets are trying to trade Derek Anderson

Per earlier poster:

"Injury plagued guy who hasn't done anything in yrs. Get anything for him and add a bigger wing player. Derek was a bad choice like Stro. Stro,Anderson and Wesley and a pick, for Pierce."

I do not want Pierce. He is a crybaby primadonna wussie who will hurt chemistry with TMAc. He would not be happy here and would cry. Boston will not give him up for garbage anyway. The deal for Crawford from NY might be more do-able with Isiah.

Unfortunate about Anderson. We got him for a bargain and he had been playing much better before the calf strain put him out for weeks.

If we get a second round pick for him that would be great. Good Idea about bringing back John Lucas III to fill that roster spot that comes open.

If nothing else- this season should tell us to get younger if we can...

One more thing- JVG is the one pushing CD's buttons on what he wants. JVG should get 50% of the blame for deals that go bad.....


My compliments to JVG- that was a very good press release
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This is about the most r****ded thing ever. JVG has officially lost his mind and probably his players. DA already stated that he would rather make less, and fight for minutes to play with a good team then make more and win less. And he proved it by signing the smalles contract he possibly could of (more or less) with the Rox.

JVG is OUT of his mind if he thinks a healthy DA and LETS NOT FORGET BARRY, are not as suited to play for this team then Moochie, Rybo, and hell even Chuck Hayes.


I guarantee hes probably started to lose his players. His fingers always are pointing at someone else instead of himself. Please JVG, tell me how a guy injured for most of the games this season suddenly has become "not a fit".


JVG is on the verge of absolutely ruining my beloved Rox. And I (up until recently) have been a huge JVG fan.

 

is it him giving up or is JVG so stupid that he wont activate him or barry???

 

thank you its all JVG he was a decent player all his years and now JVG set it up every damn time style does not work, u cannot win just scoreing 80 points a game, even the spurs and pistons could score with the best when they won their titles, screw this bowen should have gotten the axe he is a waste of damn space, who cares if he plays good defense for 1 or 2 times a game that guy cant hit 5 outa 10 wide open lay ups if his life depeneded on it, besides with the way DAs contract is there is no way we can get equal value for him

 

DA is a valuable piece to any team - just ask Portland or San Antonio. And man, he was a stud for us, too. What a loss.

(sorry for blowing up sarcasm meters across the nation)

 

Its not Gundy, DA just sucks.

 

he wasnt supposed to carry the team, the way JVG made it sound like it was DAs fault we have a crappy record right now, not that yao and tmac have missed half the season, i just dont like how its workin out, he would have been a good role player along with yao and tmac, they what played 1 game together and tmac wasnt healthy for that, granted he is injury prown but still worth a try

 

To hear some folks talk, that'd be trading like for like.

 

Bummer. Before he went down, he was doing fairly well... especially when you consider how little he was costing the Rockets, salary-wise.

Here's hoping someone goes Isaiah Thomas and gives the Rockets a plus trade for him.

 

DA is old and injured.

we made a trade for 25 y/o bogans.

we don't need DA anymore.

he knows it and JVG knows it.

they agree to part ways.

posters decide JVG lost control of his players.

 

Well if 31-years is "old" by your standards, i'd love to know how you would classify Mutombo.

 

Show me what quotes from JVG make you think this.

 

As an elbow-lovin' Sex Muchine.

 

"He was brought in here to help a good team make a move up, and we certainly aren't in the same position as we were at the start of the year," said Van Gundy.

it just sounds like he is blaiming DA

 

im not saying that he flat out is blaiming him it just sounds dumb to say that, when we all know that with tmac and yao being hurt are the reasons why we sucked earlier...i just dont like JVG i dont see how u can expect to win when u only score 80 and allow 80, our team chemistry sux a$$ this year

 

haha that works

But no, for real, am I the only one that hates the idea of giving up on Anderson? Not only am I not crazy about giving up on him but I also take issue with the timing of all of this and the manner in which JVG handled it.

Like this team isn't a big enough mess already. I guess we needed an extra distraction to further kill team morale and question faith in the coach? It really almost seems like that. If your intention is to seek a trade.....then seek a trade! Don't make more out of the situation then there needs to be.

As I posted earlier, unless DA is going to be a piece in a larger deal that can actually help us, we should hang onto him and forget about this mess. DA is still a talented player that could help a lot of teams yet we will unlikely receive equal value for now that it's been made clear of the team's intentions to trade him. Seriously, how does trading DA for a Ryan Bowen-level player make us any better?

 

With all the stuff that is going on with the Coaches and the Players I have a question for all the NBA Historians.

What was the state of the Knicks when JVG?

Was there a lot of bickering between the coach and the players?

Before JVG replaced Pat Riley I believe that the Knicks were contenders. If so did he bring in a lot of old vets that were injury proned?

I am very curious to see if there is a pattern here, before we start dogging out the players or the coach.

T_Man

 

JVG took over pat rilleys team, the team was intact all he had to do was point it i think, much like avery johnson had to do wiht the MAVS nelson had the team set up all avery did was make them attempt to play defense and added diop



which by the way doesnt diop (the center for the mavs) look like dekes offspring lol

 

Thanks for that point... but I am really trying to find out what happened to the team...

Why did JVG really quit?

What state did he leave the knicks in when he left?

BTW... Avery didn't just inherit a Don Nelson team he has come in with own philosophy and he is trasforming them into an all around team.

T_Man

 

yea i knwo avery added a more defensive pressence but that is still basically nelsons team, the offense and such, well after jvg left the knicks i dont think they were good that season he quit and then they have sucked ever since, i know its on a different thread but why did we trade baxter and get a guy that has a hurt knee and just started to practice again? did our injured list get too short wiht yao back we wanted another guy to put on it