Not if they Played Utah ball... Especially going to the line... Remember most of our games were lost because of free throws. Playoffs were most notable
I created carl Landry,Steve Novak,and Joey Dorsey. My Dorsey looks exactly like my Landry except much more stronger.
If Francis avge anything above points and 5 assists a game in the upcoming season, that would provide our bench with a great pretty handy weapon.
I've always wanted to see steve succeed and i'm not going to give up now. Even if he doesn't come back 100% he will be able to contribute enough to earn his ring. If he isn't shipped in a trade for his expiring contract.
The reality of the situation is that he probably will be shipped in a package deal for his expiring contract. He had a whole summer last year to come to camp in shape and have the starting job or at least be the backup. He was beat out easily by M James and A Brooks in camp. Now, he had surgery to his quad and A Brooks will be better than last summer and we have B Barry who can play some PG I hadn't heard anything about him rehabbing or working out hard to be ready this year. I think after the Artest signing he should be in the gym working really hard to be a part of this. I'm not saying he is not because I don't know him personally, but base don his past, I just don't see it happening. I would love for him to make me eat my words and come to camp in shape and ready to be 'THE' backup PG and sometime SG. That would make this team even that much more special. We shall see in about a month or so, somebody will have a update on his condition and chances of making a impact on the team.
my 2k8 starting 5 rafer t mac artest landry yao bench is francis barry battier scola deke this team is so versital i have so many options, plus with the rotations i have mixtures of both brooks,tmac,battier,artest,yao or rafer, barry,artest, scola,yao...the combinations go on, i know this is just a video game and i might be getting too excited, but this might be a taste of how the rockets could be! cand wait for the nba season to begin! im on xbox live hit me up dattboyd
Well, the ACTUAL reality of the situation -- as opposed to the one you've apparently invented -- is that the knee injury (it's not his quad, it's his quadriceps tendon, where the quad muscle attached to the knee) had been bothering Francis since his time with the Knicks. He thought he could play through it, then thought he could rest it last summer. That limited his ability to keep in shape and probably his being out of shape probably made the tendonitis get worse when he started to push it. So after more than a year of struggling with the injury, he shut it down last year and got corrective surgery. And just because you haven't heard anything about him rehabbing or working out doesn't mean he's NOT. Francis said he was looking at 3-4 months of rehab, then he'd be able to start running in July or August. But I supposed you'd prefer he push that schedule -- and possibly screw up rehabbing a surgery that could salvage his NBA career -- so that you could feel better him, since you evidently think he's lazy? The REALITY of the Francis situation is that nobody on this board knows the reality of the Francis situation. People are so quick to say he's toast and he'll never play again, but those people don't seem to realize he averaged 5.5/2.3/3.0 last year in 10 games -- while playing less than 20 minutes a game with a bum knee and for a new coach, a new system and a new team. If the corrective surgery gives him back even a little more mobility than he had last year, it's not out of the question that he could provide valuable minutes as at backup PG. What I'd love to see is for all the experts here to stop talking out of their a$$es, and for us all to just wait and see what happens. Because NONE of us know anything about what's really going on.
I don't see his magical return, but will be the first eat crow if he can regain old form. He was a great player and would be awesome coming off the bench for scoring and penetrating the lane. If his knee has really been bothersome since New York, he might still have some game left, he just has to come in and prove it in training camp.
Good post. Let's hope the injury was the source of the problems and it has been corrected. Nobody can say for sure that it won't. If it does we got a steal.
