With Scola next year this is a 55 win team. With Yao on the downside of his career and Kevin Martin not quite being a top tier SG, this team isn't really much better than the teams with peak Yao and peak Tmac. The role players are better but K-brick is not even close to the player Tmac was and Yao will never be what he was again. And that's the peak. Yao and K-brick will continue their declines and our underpaid players will become fairly paid so the overall team won't get better as younger players improve. Get Bosh and we are probably a 60 win team. Even after Yao and K-brick are no longer Rockets, he is at least a young superstar to build around.
Maybe it has something to do with Andrea Bargnani and Heo Turkoglu being options 2 and 3. As opposed to the Rockets potentially having Yao/Martin/Brooks as 2-3-4. Are you really this dumb?
LOL, what are you in the 3rd grade? I think it's funny you call a guy Kbrick whose been playing well for a long while now. Do you even watch Rocket games?
Pretty confident that I am smarter than you. You guys are talking about replacing Yao with Bosh. That would make Martin/Brooks as the #2-#3 as opposed to Turkoglu/Bargnani. Are those 2 really that much greater? I don't think so.
Our best team since the championship years was last years team with yao, artest, brooks, scola (no tmac). We lost artest and added ariza (same but younger, more athletic, more upside), added K-mart who is one of the most efficient SG's EVER by TS% and FT made per game (will be a better rocket then she-mac ever was), have brooks and scola now playing at an all-star level in their prime, added future first round picks, added 3 rookie contributors who WILL improve in budinger, hill and andersen and even added some relief defensive size in jeffries. Now how is it that next year's team won't be better than last years even assuming post surgery yao averages ATLEAST 13-15 pts 8 reb?
The team would not be as healthy financially with ticket sales, but the production you would get out the bigs would be pretty solid. Add on top of that, two guys that aren't easily stopped by fronting and aren't injured for a total of two seasons + worth of games. Subtract Yao's salary and you've got a healthier cap flexibility as well. Think a little longer before you speak. Not really, this team is all about possessions with the quickness they possess. Regardless of that, Bosh would be more productive than Scola in the same offense. There is absolutely no question in my mind. Write it down if you'd like. Also, if we had Bosh, Yao's minutes would go down and his touches would likely go to Bosh seeing he's the only other post option if we traded for him. Also, Bosh has more NBA respect and gets to the line more often. Twice as often, I believe.
Umm, Hedo was a primary offensive weapon on last year's Eastern conference champion and Bargnani is one of the top scoring centers averaging 17 points a game. While Turkoglu is having a down year in Toronto, none of that explains how Bosh in two playoff appearances hasn't even push them to game 7 and even lost once to a 7th seed.
Yeah, 13 games is always indicative of 82. Scola does not have the ability to keep up a 19/20 and 11/12 for a full season. Write that down too if you'd like. Also, while you're at it, consult a statistics text book and focus on the chapters that talk about "sample size". If you want to argue about Scola, you should focus on production versus cost and the intangibles. That's what makes Scola so special. (I hope I'm right considering how much I've run my mouth, but I'd love to wrong!) Scola is in the middle of a great run, but it's just that, a great run. Go Rox!
Considering the fact that Kevin Martin is shooting a very healthy 48% Fg from the field why are you still posting?
Show me the post where I said to replace Yao with Bosh, smart guy. And yes, Martin/Brooks/Yao are a much better supporting cast than Turkeyglue, who is completely washed up, and Andrea, who is an even bigger p***y than Yao.
While I don't agree with JCdenton... I'm going to say again...who was on those teams again? Chris Bosh is the only All-Star player since Vince Carter...if anything he made those teams overachievers.
That's nothing to do, we had 2 allstars a lot of times here with Yao and Tmac and those two were never able get to the second round. If anything, Scola was on the second round team, and pushed the champions to 7 games with half an all-star. Scola, like it or not, has got deeper in the PO than Bosh, and he is being paid 3 millions and accepts that some games he has to fight to get 5 shots.
The more you post, the more convinced I am that you are brain dead. Yao is no p***y, this is a guy who played on a broken foot for like 3/4 of a playoff game (stupid move, yes. But far from being a p***y). Turkoglu is washed up? Do you even watch basketball? 2009 posteason was not that long ago. Come on. Bargnani is turning out to be a pretty solid player. That Raptors roster is not bad at all. They have been underachieving. Okay fine that was not you who said replace Bosh with Yao. Sorry. That was somebody else who wanted to do the downgrade. But I still do not see how Yao and Bosh could possibly coexist. Both are go-to post guys. If we did not have Yao, I would probably be all over going for Bosh. But the fact is, Yao will be back and Scola has proven to be a pretty good fit alongside him (he hustles, plays hard and had Yao not gone down, this team would have a great shot at winning it all last year).
