ok before you all yell at me i was just wondering about this. today i saw on espn that avery johnson is a free agent this offseason. i belive avery lives in sugarland and got his first real nba chance with the rockets. what i was wondering is would you want a player like avery on the team. the problem is that we have steve but if we were able to talk avery into finishing his last 3 (that is what he says he wants to play) seasons as the rockets backup would you want that. i just think we need a playoff vertern to show steve and some of the other young players what you can only learn from playoff experience players. i don't think hakeem is the type who is willing to teach young players anything but avery would be. just curious. we do have bullard and shandon that have experience but shandon is young and bullard well he never had any playoff pressure ------------------ Shane "Save Our Rockets" "Life without basketball in Houston........without an arena that is what it will be"
He wont get alot of time since he will be playing behind francis and moochie. The answer is NO! ------------------ President of the Moochie Norris FAN CLUB
Thanks but no thanks. Our guard slots are pretty full...unless Kidd demands a trade to the Rocks There are more important positions that need to be addressed. ------------------ We need some meat in the post!
well he is better then moochie and bryce. no one thinks we need some kind of vetern on this team? aj is still a good player who could teach steve and some of the others a lot. i guess he will maybe make a good assistant coach one day ------------------ Shane "Save Our Rockets" "Life without basketball in Houston........without an arena that is what it will be"
We already have our starting PG, and Mooch is a heck of a back up. Avery is a better player than Norris, but he's also much more expensive. He was the starting PG on a championship team, does he really want to be the back up for a rebuilding team? I doubt it. ------------------ I have a dream.........his name's Hakeem.
Well, AJ is better than Moochie and Bryce, his style would fit our system, and he does have vet experience, plus he's a really great guy, so I don't know, but I'd lean towards no. Unless Mooch is abducted by aliens... ------------------
Ok so if Avery wants to play 3 more seasons.... To sign him it would require atleast the 2 mil exception so a 3 yr 6.6 mil deal. After Hakeem's windfall next season if the Rockets fell 2 mil short on a big ticket FA just to have a "veteran" backup to Francis how would you feel when Moochie could have been signed for a fraction of that amount? I'll pass. ------------------ Check out the Best Source for Draft Info Draftsource.net
chances are we will fall shorter then 2 mil. i was just wondering because he could give us experience and we need some of that. whats the differnce anyway we are already paying mclean, maloney, thomas hamilton, shaw....who else? ------------------ Shane "Save Our Rockets" "Life without basketball in Houston........without an arena that is what it will be"
The last year on Shaws contract just expired and didn't we sign Moochie to a two year non-guaranteed contract. On the Avery Johnson front I say no. If we need a veteran to teach the younger players the ropes do it in a position of need. ------------------
i think kj and aj are different. i said aj because he is still a good pg. ok then the questions shifts to do we need to get some more veterns or can we win with young players? ------------------ Shane "Save Our Rockets" "Life without basketball in Houston........without an arena that is what it will be"
Have you guys heard the Vernon Maxwell quote from when the Rockets were playing the Spurs in 94? Aparently Avery Johnson was in the Rockets locker room before Game one blessing each Rocket. When he got to Vernon Maxwell's locker and blessed him Vernon screamed at the top of his lungs "This is a motha F$%#king basketball game motha F$%#ka, God ain't got F$%#k-all to do with it!!!" I love that story. Read about it in the Dynamite Book "Keepin it Real" by Larry Platt. It's an entire book written about Vernon Maxwell, Charles Barkley, Matt Maloney and Jerry Stackhouse. As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to post about that right now. ------------------
