Once Batman returns, team are going to be in trouble down the stretch trying to score on this lineup Tmac - Checking the weakest 1, 2 or 3 Battier - Checking the strongest 1, 2, or 3 Ron Ron - Checking the 2nd strongest 1, 2, or 3 Chuck - Checking the 4 or 5 - D is awesome, can't score to save his families life Yao - Checking weakest 4 or 5 once he gets his confidence back I could even put Brooks in for Yao or Chuck depending on the match up.
That is, unless someone else gets injured. Which is likely... The league should be in trouble with our current lineup, but obviously there is work to do. But the Rockets need to finish the season at 1,2 or 3. Otherwise, it could be out in the first round once again. People might say it is early in the season, but the Rockets need to pile up wins early in the season. Odds are there will not be a 22 game winning streak.
Yeah when battier returns he would be guarding the top guy on the other team instead of artest because to me it looks like artest is getting worn out having to run all over the place guarding these guards.
When we can switch out for offense, simply replace Chuck with Scola and perhaps Battier for Brooks or Barry depending on who the defense has out there.
someone remind me when shane comes back. what is the estimated return? we certainly miss his defense, and tmac and yao miss the spacing he brings. he is going to be lethal with artest on the court. double the three point shooting, and twice the defense. wow. come back soon battier. come back soon.
I think Battier will return in late November. Morey projected mid-November, but I think that's him being hopeful.
i agree when deke comes back the league will be in deeper trouble. Atleast financially. His hitting everyone up for money will turn cheap players the other way, plus you know he goes after guys that don't donate the hardest. With his elbows I would be making hospitals as well.
D is good, how about O? We can only score 90-100pts a game. Utah, LAL are good at O and D, and both are loaded with talents. They can score 100+ easily. If we can lock them to 90pts, we have chance to win. Can we?
We don't need another point DaDakota, don't you know all we need is Yao to dunk all the time. If he doesn't than he is a lazy injury liability that has to do better than double double and make and take last second shots. I wish we would trade him just to hear everybody go "we need a better center!"
How many NBA games has he played since Feb.? I like him as a compliment and not the ultimate dominator. Even jordan had games when he wasn't on, but his team would suffer because the lack of offense on a MJ off night. I don't want the rockets to be like that. Yao could digress and if the TEAM played more cohesively and won (22 game streak) I would be happy.
Did Adelman ever use Battier on Deron Williams? Seems like Battier hasn't really guarded many PG's the last few years, even the big ones that he should be covering, like DWilliams.
Wait Obama won so Batman doesn't have any to go anywhere. Oh.. Battier.. It will be great to see him back on out the court. I will have to remember this image for the next Photoshop the Joy thread.
