Why didn't Ishmael Smith play in the final minutes?

Frankly, I've been quietly shaking my head at all the Lowry-love around here the last few weeks/months.

I really don't know what you guys see in him. He does the same thing every time he gets the ball- run as fast as he can headlong toward the basket and hope for contact.


It's nice on the fast break. It's nice to bring some energy in the second unit. But really? that's what you guys want your starting/major minutes PG to have as a strategy?


He's really not that good of a PG. His defense is better, but that's pretty much it.

 

So the golden boy of the BBS is now out of favor? The guy Morey said was the Rockets' most impactful player and Les said to sign at all costs is now behind an undrafted rookie in the pecking order around here? And it only took a couple of games! Why isn't our 900-win coach getting with the program on this?

 

Finally finished watching the game and I have no idea what people are b****ing about. With Lowry in the game for most of the 4th, the Rockets finally took the lead. Ish comes in with the Rockets up by 1, then leaves a couple of minutes later with the Rockets down 5 and about 3-4 minutes left in the game. I also don't see how Hayes was hurting the team either. Again he and Lowry were both in the game when the Rockets finally overtook the Wizards. Not sure what you people are looking at.

 

You can't play a zero point scorer and a 2 point scorer (Shane and Chuck respectively). Also playing with Scola is a definite mis match. For some reason they think Shane and Chuck are the same players from 2007. Sorry gentlemen it is 2010 and they are getting murdered night and night out. The file doesn't lie.

Go young with Chase and Jordan to team up with Ish, Martin and Scola. Bring Shane and Chuck off the bench to hold the lead against 2nd string players, hopeful they can guard them.