Trade Bonzi, he doesn't fit here.

don grahamleone · Apr 10, 2007

RedRaiderRocket said:

The idea of having last years Bonzi in the playoffs remains a hot topic of discussion, but so far this season Bonzi has given the Rockets exactly what he thought his 2.1 million salary he was stuck with after turning down the Kings insanely high contract. I still don't think holding onto him past the deadline was a bad idea, at a salary so low and expectations so high that the Rockets were never going to get close to equal value in return. People saw how easily he dominated the Spurs great defense, he was too strong for Bowen and too quick for Duncan, he was also the Kings only low post threat, so he could use the lane fully to his advantage, Shareef Abdur Rahim, Kenny Thomas, and Brad Miller are all perimeter oriented big men. With the Rockets he has big men who's production only comes in from down low in Yao, Chuck Hayes, Mutombo, which clogs up the lanes for Bonzi to post up or penetrate. Bonzi needs the ball in his hand to be effective, and we already have superstar that is most productive in driving, dishing, and pulling up for jumpers, with amazing court vision and accuracy. People always look for someone to blame, and it is going to be the same excuses when the Rockets get eliminated in the playoffs eventually. The matter of the fact is Bonzi has maybe had 2 or 3 good games since joining the Rocket the ones I can recall vs Boston with both Yao and T-mac out and vs the Spurs with T-mac out. The rest of his games have been mediocre at best. He will never be the 3rd scorer people were expecting him out to be because he doesn't fit with our style of offense. Nor does with pretty much any team with any low post present offense at all. He had one good year last year with the Kings but before that he was bench guy for Portland and Memphis. Is he worth cutting Yao's or T-mac's minutes just to see him succeed, in our offense, no but that pretty much is the only way. Which is why it sucks whenever the Rockets lose, that this forum pretty much explodes, of the typical excuse Rafer sucks, why doesn't JVG play Bonzi more, trade T-mac, fire JVG, and so on and so forth. I usually disagree with about 95% of whatever Dakota says but this argument he was dead right on. The expectations were waaaaay to high for a guy who no one really known how he would react after losing that contract thus leading to about 50 pages before he even came here, just like Novak with his summer league shooting and people wanted to give him a nickname despite being a 2nd round draft pick, with V-span and his total domination of team USA in the FIBA World Championship. Oh well this has been a fun season and huge roller coaster ride, starting with the draft day trade of Battier for 8th pick and Swift, to T-mac's early back trouble, to Yao playing like at an MVP level, to Yao breaking his leg, to T-mac visiting the back specialist Dr. Patterson, to T-mac carrying the Rockets to a 20-12 without Yao, to Yao slowly but surely regaining his top form, to almost a 50 win season, Go Rockets!
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Trade Bonzi, he doesn't fit here.

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