Tmac at PG and Hakeem at SF won't work. Why would ask one of the greatest defensive centers and post players in NBA history to play the 3 ... just to include Yao Ming?
C - Dream, Yao PF - Moses, Ralph SF - T-Mac, Battier, Big Shot Bob SG - Glide, Mad Max PG - Brooks, Lowry
who says u cant have a triple post and who says he has to stick to playing like a small forward? you have moses, dream, and yao. you play 3 centers for defense, boards, points in the paint and putbacks. why wouldnt it work? dream can guard anybody and is good enough to knock down jumpers as well as post ppl up. the positions are interchangeable when u have those 3 downlow. with tmac and clyde at the wings who the hell are they gonna double?
Fair point. BUT ... Dream's earned the right to play whatever position he wants. And he wants to be the center. He also wants the left elbow. So the rest of those centers best get out of the way!
Looking at those lists, it's just shocking how many great big men the Rockets have had compared to the relatively small number of good SFs and PGs.
Some of you need to get some guts and cut people. I mean throwing Hakeem at SF or Yao at PG just to have them on the team is just gutless!! :grin: C - Moses Malone PF - Hakeem Olajuwon SF - Clyde Drexler SG - Tracy McGrady PG - John Lucas (this is a tough one between John and Calvin, but we have a enough scoring with this lineup, so I went with the best playmaker/setup man to don a Rockets uni)
Your issue would be other teams running Moses, Hakeem, or Yao ragged with their SF. None of those guys can guard a SF play after play (yes, despite the fact we all think Hakeem is a deity, he is human.... albeit a high-level one with +2 STR, +2 AGI, and .... nevermind, I've said too much).
lol@+2 STR, +2 AGI. enchanted armour, exotic weapons.. i dont think a SF will run hakeem ragged. moses and yao yeah but not hakeem. i think his length and quickness will run other SF ragged. he doesnt have to chase them around like a cat and mouse. he just has to stay in front of them. plus if they happen to burn him, he would have moses and yao to back him up. look at the weakside defense of yao and moses or hakeem and moses or yao and hakeem. who the hell is gonna penetrate that? Kobe? MJ? certainly not LBJ or DWade. and nobody is running yao at PG. tmac is running PG. there is nothing wrong with that. clyde at SG is fine as well. moses as the bruiser and rebounder and yao scoring from the high post when hakeem or moses get into trouble. nobody would get overplayed or exhausted b/c there are no defensive holes nor are there any scoring liabilities. yao is probably the most vulnerable but with so many guys to clean up (dream, moses, clyde, tmac) fronting will do no good.
C- Hakeem, Yao, Sampson PF- Scola, Landry. Horry, SF- Cylde, Maxwell, Mobley SG- Martin, Brooks, Francis PG- Lucas, Calvin, Lowery After thinking about the players, then the groups that would fit well together. This is whayt I came up with.
These are all in their prime. I thought I'd insert Brooks and Francis in the 2 spot, since they should play better there.. I really think Horry fits better with Hakeem because Horry helps spreads the floor and rebounds well. Thought Scola really fits better with Yao down low, helping him out in the blocks. After looking at the groups... My question would be, which group beats which? IS Hakeem,Scola,Cylde,Martin, and Lucas a better group than Yao Landry,Maxwell,Brooks and Calvin? Or could Sampson,Horry,Mobley,Francis and Lowery beat any of them? Btw, Tracy is the waterboy..lol IMO, I always have to go with Hakeems group.
Nope, no Barkley and no OT. I'll always see Barkley as a Sixers or Sun, Rockets last. Otis was good but no. E.Hayes can have a good case made for him and rightfly so, but it was my list and I cut him. Sorry...
So, you see Landry as a rocket even when he is not coming back to the rockets, and played only two seasons with the team, and barkely played 4 years with the rockets and you dont see him as a rocket?
You are diminishing Hakeem's strengths by putting two post players next to him that will crowd the paint and asking him to guard SFs on the perimeter. And your team has awful perimeter shooting. Neither McGrady nor Drexler are strong spot up shooters, which further takes away from Hakeem's effectiveness.
