Currently 16 ppg, 4 apg, 4 rpg... as a *rookie*. Brandon Roy plays like a Dwyane Wade-lite. The plan was to trade Luther + the 8th pick for this guy. Sure, Luther has been clutch and is a deadly 3-pt shooter... but Roy could be a future all-star. We'd still have Swift whom we could probably trade for a back-up PG. We'd probably had used the MLE on something else. PG: Rafer Alston/ (Swift trade back-up PG) SG: Brandon Roy/ Kirk Snyder SF: Tracy McGrady/ MLE signee/ Someone else PF: Chuck Hayes/ Juwan Howard C: Yao Ming/ Mutombo/ T-Sak Brandon Roy is what we've been lacking on this team... someone other than T-Mac who can penetrate and finish. He would have been that 'third guy', the guy who would be able to take over when T-Mac and Yao are cold. We would have had 3 all stars on this team. Would we really have a big drop off on defense if we didn't have Shane? And wasn't getting Brandon Roy plan A anyway? (IC2000 please confirm) What do you guys think?
Don't know... I agree that if we had gotten Brandon Roy instead of Shane Battier, our scoring averages would have gone up. But the flipside is that our opponent's best player also gets higher scores on us. Ben Gordon, Vince Carter and a few others could have and probably would have had our heads. Ultimately though... I think everyone here agrees that Shane is All NBA Defensive team material, and basically All-Star material. I therefore, agree that since we were unable to get Brandon Roy on our draft, we did the right thing by getting Shane Battier for Stromile Swift and Rudy Gay
Roy, the ROY, would have been a fine Rocket. But the cost would have been Shane and Luther, as said. And BTW did anyone notice the ease with which The Logo had in moving Stro at the deadline? SS may be the tallest, most athletic UNmovable big in the NBA! The cost for Roy would have been very steep, indeed.
If you told me today that I could trade Luther Head and Shane Battier for Brandon Roy and Stromile Swift, I would turn it down. There's nothing wrong with Brandon Roy, he's going to be a lower-tier star. Battier's a super-duper role player, and that's harder to find than a lower-tier star.
Had Yao not broken his leg, we likely would currently be holding the 3rd seed or better ...and as it stands, we are headed to our best regular season seeding in over a decade. If we had Roy, it's hard to imagine we'd be even better off than that.
Do you ppl forget who oyr coach is. Do you reallly think Roy would've made an impact on our team this season? And i never get overimressed with rookies doing ood on a bad team. It can be misleading. I'm happy wiht our team the way it is. We just have to build on that. I don't think Roy would've made tha much of an impact.
didn't jvg say roy was one of the rookies who who could've been immediate help, ie worth keeping the pick for?
Not knocking Shane, but heck no do you pass on Brandon Roy for him (Yes Swift and Head have been part of it, but they are more minor). Roy already is an oustanding all around team player with a major scoring punch, who is young and will only get beter. But Roy wasn't available to us, so it is all moot.
we made the right move to win right now. with a scorer off the bench capable of putting up 20 on any given night, we would be right up there with the big 3.
I am sure Gundy/Dawson would of had Roy drafted 8th and then pay him a ton of money and then sit him on the bench right along side all the other people Gundy has benched making 8th pick type money. Makes sense to me!
These kind of nonsenscicle comments make me laugh. There were some statements made around draft day that basically implied that if Roy was available at #8 he was one of the guys we would have taken. But when he was already taken along with the select few other draftees we deemed as worthy then the Battier deal was inevitable. If we would have gotten Roy, and he could contribute to the team without making boneheaded errors there is not a doubt in my mind that JVG would be playing him, at a minimum off the bench.
Your right it doesn't make, but so doesn't the mind of JVG. I mean I'm definitelyt not a fan of VSpan(becasue i've haven't seen him play to become a fan) but rockets fans were raving about him and then we bring him over from the league where he was improving everyday and we pay him a good amount of my jst to sit him on the bench? Does that make sense to you? We could've left him there to improve his game and get better by actually play some sorta organized ball.
Yes, you do. Adding a third offensively-minded player would have done little for the Rockets. Having Roy would have taken the ball out of McGrady's hands and would have made the Rockets a worse team. Roy's individual talent would contribute far less to the Rockets than Shane Battier's talent and ability to set a tone for the team.
It would have been a bust; his talents would have gone unutilized kind of like Bonzi. Our offense is inside-out, we are not a penetrating team. He would have not fit into our style of play.
wow i didnt know Brandon Roy already made a lot of clutch plays and he does the same playmaking Tmac does for us. If we win the title soon i wouldnt care for brandon roy, but if we dont.....man. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6yt1N_v0Ihk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6yt1N_v0Ihk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
