No sauce, no drugs, just reasonable thoughts. Look, we can dream about the bigtime free agents that might come here in 10. We can try to pick a 30 yr old player that is probably sloping down. What I tried to do is admit and confess what's cominf if we stay the course. After this season and the 1st or 2nd rd elimination , we will have a older, slower unathletic non versitile team again. All I'm doing is rebuilding a yr older while guys still have value. This is what La did when they had shaq. They started to build the team around Kobe and get younger. I don't have to defend any of the selections, but I didn't just dream them up without thought. The guys chosen were all multi talented, versitile, and young. Yao Ming should be good enough to take tha group ad have them in pretty much the same situation we're in now which is anywhere from the 4-10. The difference in that team constructed is they will get better because of their age. Scola for Charlie V isn't a rape as someone suggested. C.V. is a big,versitlie athletic 4. He's in the Odom clone in the way he can pass,shoot,dribble,rebound, and run. He's 24 yrs of age vs 29 for scola. Not to mention, he's shooting 37% from 3. That means players have to travel a longer way to double Yao. On the close out, Charlie can put the ball on the floor and get to the basket from the 3pt line. Durvasa, I understand you concerns about Deng. I think Deng is like Rip Hamilton. He's never going to be a top 5 player at his position, but he's good, fundamentaly sound, smart and plays hard. His injury this year has slowed him down this season, but as of late, he's playing like he did last yr. He's a 15-18 ppg 6 reb sf. He's deadly from mid range, can put the ball on the floor, great ft shooter and plays well off the ball. Azubuike, again is another young,athletic productive player. Will he ever avg 20ppg? No, but he will be around 15 with a good fg% from 2pt and 3pt area. He has a good shot recognition, play bigger than his 6'5 from, very athletic and also a hard worker. Again, another guy that will move and play well without the ball. No sauce,no gimmicks, no fools gold either. I just assembled a versiltile,athletic lineup that will run the offense,defer to yao as the leader, and will get better every year. Now we can wait for bosh, wade or lebron, or we can get a 34yr old dirk or some of those other dream scenerio, but I'm dealing in the real. This rebuild will put the rox back in the mix with utah,portland and to a extent lakers. In 2 yrs, phoenix,dallas,sa, boston, and teams like that are going to old, in decline and looking at mediocrity like the rox are doing now. So laugh if you will, I'm just being real about it.
I'm convinced that you want Rockets to get stuck in mediocrity, just so you can say "HAHA, no TMAC no playoff" in the distant future
I don't mind the analysis, I just disagree with some of your conclusions. I do like Charlie V though, I would have traded Landry for him earlier this year, but Scola is just as productive as he is, in different ways. DD
DD, I like Scola, but 3 yrs from now, this going to be the same guy maybe worse. I can't say CV is going to be a all star, but I can see him being a 18ppg 8 rebs versitile big and he'll be 27 vs 32. With the up and down news on tracy, my plan might change. Instead of tracy for deng, I might use shane and head for dark and rudy then use landry for azubuike.
Scola is not as bad as people here think, he does a great job of trapping the ball on the PnR, where he struggles is in rotations and recovery. But one on one, he is pretty good, just ask KG. DD
DD, scola sux on d, but to his credit, he tries. He will get a steal, but he doesn't contest shots, guys beat him off the dribble, and guys shoot over him a lot. Charlie isn't much better, but he's bigger,longer, and more offensively diverse. When the rox played the bucks, we didn't have a 4 who could guard him out on the floor. Similar to when we play odom.
Boozer for Scola and filler is a deal we should never do. Boozer is a piece of **** and he's injury prone to boot. I'd rather keep a hard worker like Scola and trade Artest for a Mike Miller for instance.
That's an understatement. Scola plays 6 more mpg than Brooks and has 6 blocks on the year. Brooks has 5. Shotblocking isn't everything by any means but that is a pathetic statistic. And that isn't even considering his traffic cone defense on the blocks.
Brooksball, that's what I'm trying to show people. We know Yao will be here mainly because of the off court stuff. Like I've stated, we need guys who are young and productive with upside who can get better faster than yao will decline. If yao starts to decline and battier,scola, and rafer does too, huess what? We would be stuck with a old,slow lotto team vs a young up and coming lotto team like portland was a couple of yrs ago. Tracy is done, so this summer is time to close the window on this "win now" era.
Shot blocking...seriously, shot blocking...ROFLMAO.....it is more important to contest shots. Scola is not great on D, but he is good enough. DD
this idea is the worst i have seen........except for the one about artest and scola for boozer which makes the Azzholes better than us
DD, he's not good enough. If you're not a good shot blocker, you need to be a great positional defender. Scola is neither. Thorpe wasn't a shot blocker and neither was pj brown, but they were long and strong which made the good positional defenders. Scolandry is horrible at blks and positional. When teams need a basket, they fo to scolandry's man. Then after the easy points, we have to double which breaks the integrity of the defense. Not only that, scolandry struggles with the same type of player.
