Demo is definitely playing better, but I would leave DMO on the bench because he is the 6th man right now and that's a bigger role than being the 5th starter. With Lin being a train wreck, DMO is the only thing with energy off the bench! and they need someone to do that
I'm pretty sure the Rockets won't stop anybody from playing for their national team. If they didn't for Yao they sure won't for anyone else. Most teams in the NBA let the players make the call regarding their desire to play for their national team.
Welp, I was off by a little but pretty much dead on about Detroit. And about people thinking he's past the rookie wall and is going to be fine. The only thing left is to watch him suck hind titty against the good teams.
Yeah because every young player is like Paul George who can occasionally dominate against good teams like the Heat. You take what you have when money cannot be poured into every position. Young players learn and play that is what they do.
Great example! Spoiler Marketing is a big factor, and who gives you more $$ after all when plays for national team - Donuts or Yao?
What is it you're expecting from a guy who's getting his first year of regular playing time and just a 2nd year mid round drafted player...??? With TJ and D-Mo the 4 position is better than it was last year. You can't expect consistent good performances out of either one of them against veteran star players on a nightly basis. It's up to Harden, Howard, and the Super Star Parsons to pick up the slack... With the master mind coaching efforts of McHale and his crack staff.
My expectations are Jones will look good against junk teams that don't play good D and he'll look terrible against any kind of quaity team that scouts their opponents and knows the opponent's weaknesses. My expectations are that Jones will remain the weak link in our lineup...if he stays in it....and it will eventually cost us the opportunity for a ring. My long-term expectations of Jones are that he becomes another middling NBA player unless he develops a great jump shot....which he has failed to do for the past 3 summers. So the overwhelming odds are he will be very mediocre for his career. Oh....and our 4 position is not as good as it was last year. Morris and Patterson right now at the 4 spot would do wonders for this team.
Lol @ posters like yourself b****ing about the situation that cannot be altered for the rest of the season. Sir, you have too much time on your hands and you obviously don't spend it in a positive way to support each and every player on this team.
This is how I know you're just rambling because last year both those dudes would be on the bench and Delfino would spend time at the 4 before they got traded.
dmo and asik are the best backup 4/5 tandem in the league. i'd rather keep dmo off the bench where he and asik can dominate the second units of other teams. hamilton is a nice addition to the bench as well. the starting lineup doesn't need any more fire power. you dont always just start your 5 best. look at the spurs keeping manu off the bench for years.
Come on man, we don't miss Marcus Morris. Seriously? He is just Casspi with a twin brother. You can make a small argument for 2Pat, but go look at his box scores this year and every year for that matter. He isn't exactly a model of consistency either. Get over it man. Just about every name you throw out there to replace Jones and D. Mo with are just as wildly inconsistent because they are all ROLE players. If the Rockets feel like they need to go with a spacing 4, we have options with Casspi and Hamilton now. Jones has put up numbers that far exceed any that Patterson or Morris have EVER put up and D. Mo probably will too eventually.
patterson also had to develop his shot. and considering time spent in the league, jones's 2nd year is better than marcus morris's 2nd year.
ROFL.......you guys are hilarious. Patrick Patterson is shooting over 50% from the field and around 42% from the 3-point line. AND he's a quality defender. I'll take that inconsistency all day along over the inconsistency of Jones/DMo. ROFL....PPat on this team right now would have us in the hunt for a ring. That's how well he would fit our current team with the 2 big guys playing the 5. Marcus Morris was our starter last year when we started the season. He's shooting around 38% from the 3-point line this season. The reason we moved these guys is because they were going to become impediments to our cap and their trade values were fixing to deterioriate (especially in PPat's case) because they were going into the 3rd and 4th year of their rookie deals...not because they weren't good players. I knew they were going to be traded. Plus, we had DMo and TJones and the hope was that those guys would blossom. We wound up starting Greg Smith at the 4 last year going down the stretch. Greg Smith. Their improvement this year??? Very, very incremental. Just enough to keep the gap between PPat and them about the same as it was last year. PPat has gotten incrementally better as well. Terrence Jones, at this stage of his career, is a trash man. He simply takes out the trash for Dwight and Harden. That's it. Yes, he does a good job finishing in traffic underneath the rim. AT LEAST...as long as we are playing regular teams and not playoff teams that have behemoths out there who are bigger and stronger in the low block area. And then all of a sudden Jones disappears. Because he's simply not big enough nor strong enough to scrum under the bucket with the true big boys. And he can't shoot. The position can (and probably will) be altered as we go forward. If Jones nor DMo steps up against the big playoff teams...we're going to see the Twin Towers more and more and then we're going to see the smalls (Bev/Lin/Harden/Parsons/Hamilton) playing around one big more and more. Morris was the starter.
ppat also has more NBA experience. he had to develop his shooting while he was with the rockets. he wasn't a great rebounder either. morris has his shot. that's about it. dmo and jones have length. jones is a solid rebounder. can make plays (whens the last time you saw ppat/morris block a shot and get a basket at the other end?). the difference right now isn't huge and ill take jones/dmo's potential production in their 3rd/4th years over patterson/morris' 3-4th year production.
