Houston Chronicle reports the Rockets signed both. Let the training camp battles begin! http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/Roc...s-53954-34.html Rockets Sign Brown And Torres HOUSTON (Sept. 26) - The Houston Rockets have signed guards Tierre Brown and Oscar Torres to non-guaranteed contracts, general manager Carroll Dawson announced today. Both players will participate in Rockets training camp, which begins on Tuesday, Oct. 1 in Austin, Texas. Brown Brown averaged 3.1 points and 1.8 assists in 40 games last season as a rookie with the Rockets. The 6-2, 189-pound point guard reached double figures in scoring five times, including a career-high 16 points in the season finale at Portland on Apr. 17. Among NBA rookies, Brown ranked tied for 13th in assists per game, as he led Houston in assists on three occasions. Prior to joining the Rockets, Brown averaged 15.4 points and 4.1 rebounds in four seasons at the McNeese State. Torres Torres stood as the highest scoring non-drafted rookie in the NBA last season, averaging 6.0 points in 65 games with the Rockets. Among NBA rookies, the 6-6, 210-pound shooting guard ranked second in free throw percentage and eighth in 3-point percentage. Torres averaged 12.4 points in 13 starts and 13.4 points while Steve Francis resided on the injured list. He scored in double digits 16 times, including a career-high 28 points vs. Cleveland on Dec. 11. Torres led Houston in scoring four times and reaching 20 points four times. In the 2002 FIBA World Championship Games, he averaged 14.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.8 steals for Venezuela. Prior to joining the Rockets, he played professionally Venezuela for four seasons .
http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/Rockets_Sign_Brown_And_Torres-53954-34.html Rockets Sign Brown And Torres HOUSTON (Sept. 26) - The Houston Rockets have signed guards Tierre Brown and Oscar Torres to non-guaranteed contracts, general manager Carroll Dawson announced today. Both players will participate in Rockets training camp, which begins on Tuesday, Oct. 1 in Austin, Texas.
Is Brown's contract guaranteed? If so, that would be four points guards with guarantees on the roster. I know Francis can play the two, but one is his primary position. Does anyone else see something might happen if Brown and Maddox have a great preseason? Would Brown be helped liked Jones last year? Or will someone else go?
talk about a deep team. we are 3 deep at every position. ming-cato-collier (yeah he can play about 6 mpg this year) moT-griff-Tmo rice-k9-boki cat-tito-oz steve-mooch-tierre i think oz and tierre will get 1 year deals. les doesn't want another season like last. so he is making sure that if an injurie occurs we will be ready.
Neither contract was guaranteed. They have to battle for their spots. The competition is going to be real good: SG: Mickeal, Boki, Tito & Oscar PG: Brown, Tito, Moochie Obviously, Moochie and Boki have it made. I think Tito is guaranteed at least this year. Maybe the Rockets will drop Collier and keep two guards on IR. EG and MT can cover the 3rd 5 spot. That would allow Collier to go to Europe to develop. Should be interesting...
Who else thinks we're going to sweep the preseason? Every single player, other than Steve Francis, has something to prove/win, and will give incredible effort. If Maddox and Tierre look good in preseason, I can easily see KT, Mooch and Collier being traded for an expiring contract and a pick.
I think OT will stick too. He even started for us last year and did a real good job. He's one of those tweeners that Rudy loves too, he can play the 2 and 3 and he plays good defense. The camp competition is going to be tremendous. So many good players and really only Steve and Cat are guarantees to start. The scrapping for starting positions and backups will be fierce. And then, the fight just to make the team will be hard fought. This will be a strong squad 1-12 and on the IR.
It looks to me that the last and third spot on the I/R is between Brown and Torres! Makes the Team... Point Guard: Francis,Norris, Maddox. Shooting Guard: Mobley,Mickeal I/R: Collier,Morris,Brown/Torres Francis,Maddox and Nachbar can help at Shooting Guard!
What the hell were they doing signing an inferior PG, in Tito? Is Tito's contract guaranteed or not? Tito CANNOT play SG...
