By sephBy fertygoBy diprosalicSVG messing up my preseason Kerr COTY bet that looked rather nicely so far.Boedenhauzer gonna get that.
So once Pop leaves, does Budz go back home to SA?
side question when Duncan leaves whats the odds Pop takes on the GM/President role for SA?
Kemba with 25 fantasy points in a single quarter. Jesus. I feel bad for anyone who plays daily games and didn't pick him today.
I'm banking on a blowout by mid way through the third. Lots of garbage time.
By unknownHouston you have my sword. End this shit real quick.
I'm banking on a blowout by mid way through the third. Lots of garbage time.
By Zeus Ex Machinaside question when Duncan leaves whats the odds Pop takes on the GM/President role for SA?
Minimal.
They've got a good GM/Pres.
When pop retires he'll be kicking back doing nothing but touring around the world.
By MambaKind of inflated by 1 game against a crappy D missing its best defender. We'll see. By used lineup, I mean by total minutes.Which game would you be referring to? The ZBo-less Memphis game where he scored 21?
FWIW, I'm not arguing Houston's best 5 man rotation is a bad offensive unit. Merely pointing at the whole team. Every team (outside Philly) has good offensive lineups. There's a good chance that Morey ball is not maximizing the bench as it is.
Lin comes off the bench because there's no one else to make plays when Kobe sits so Price starts. Lin is better than Price. Lin would still be decent for Houston and much better than what they have now.
Don't see an impact player available for them. Not sure a legit backup PG becomes available which they sorely need. But sure, they have time to get one. Expirings don't really mean anything right now, fwiw. Not saying he can't trade them but they don't have the value they had in the past. Re: trade exception, perhaps they used it to get Ariza and still have the Lin one. Where it comes from is irrelevant, it's the exact same contract and thus TPE.
I must've misunderstood, since I thought your initial response claimed that even our starting 5 weren't good on offense. And I'm not gonna argue that our bench hasn't been used properly. I, along with other Rockets fans on here constantly complain about Milkhair's refusal to play Papanikolaou (second best passer on the team) and Canaan (best shooter on the team).
Maybe Lin's mature enough now to realise that even coming off the bench, he'd have an important role, but I never got the sense he was really at peace with coming in behind Beverley while he was here. Him, Asik and Parsons all had ego issues I'm glad aren't on the team anymore. On paper we don't look as strong (and like you said, before the season started, even I was saying the season would be over if one of Howard or Harden went down), but that 8-3 run without Howard, Jones and Bev showed me this team developed some grit we didn't have last season.
You claim that Morey hasn't done anything to improve our bench situation, and yet you still think we have Lin's TPE. We already used it before the December 'deadline' (in time so that players traded in could be packaged before the actual deadline) to get Brewer and Shved. Brewer has provided good depth behind Ariza and Harden, and Shved I see no value in other than helping in a trade.
Since those trades kicked into effect, these have been our ORtg stats:
Portland: 109.3
Memphis: 116.2
San Antonio: 106.3
Washington: 106.5
Charlotte: 108.2
New Orleans: 86.4
Miami: 125.9
Chicago: 108
Cleveland: 116.8
(Bolded are the games in which Smith hasn't started.)
My original contention was that if you took Houston's injuries into account, our offense wasn't actually that bad. From an aesthetic point of view, sure, I can't argue there, but from an actual effectiveness standpoint, I still stand by what I said.
Expirings in our case would be needed for salary purposes. The value from the other team's perspective would come from the pick we would give them. The dream was there earlier in the season: Rockets top of their division, New Orleans a non-play off team, Phoenix struggling to integrate Thomas and OKC coming in like a bullet for that last playoff spot. It looks a lot murkier now, and I too fail to see where we'd get another piece that'd move the needle.
By unknownHouston you have my sword. End this shit real quick.Did I just hear Brothers is officiating? Oh god..
By chandlerparsonsBy unknownHouston you have my sword. End this shit real quick.Did I just hear Brothers is officiating? Oh god..
upset special
By fertygoBy diprosalicSVG messing up my preseason Kerr COTY bet that looked rather nicely so far.Boedenhauzer gonna get that.
i was only kidding but yeah Boedenhauzer is a front runner, 1:250 odds would've been nice.
By matrixHoward is playing just like he did last time against the Knicks at MSG…. like hot garbage.His postups are a thing of beauty. Really loving it being our only option in this lineup.
By chandlerparsonsBy matrixHoward is playing just like he did last time against the Knicks at MSG…. like hot garbage.His postups are a thing of beauty. Really loving it being our only option in this lineup.
He hasn't learned shit from Dream.
Fucking depressing.
By dy_nastyToronto getting shut down right now lol wtf is this teamnfi.
weirdest game ever.
Jason Maxiel. defensive Anchor.
By matrixBy chandlerparsonsBy matrixHoward is playing just like he did last time against the Knicks at MSG…. like hot garbage.His postups are a thing of beauty. Really loving it being our only option in this lineup.
He hasn't learned shit from Dream.
Fucking depressing.
It's too late for him to learn. I'm not even mad.
By CRUDBy matrixBy chandlerparsonsBy matrixHoward is playing just like he did last time against the Knicks at MSG…. like hot garbage.His postups are a thing of beauty. Really loving it being our only option in this lineup.
He hasn't learned shit from Dream.
Fucking depressing.
It's too late for him to learn. I'm not even mad.
I was hoping he would take/learn at least one thing from him.
By giririsssLMAO at waiters not being allowed to wear 13 in OKC because OKC are holding that number for Harden.
oddest shit ever lol
By matrixSo when Durant leaves to play with Conley and Gasol OKC are going all in on Harden?By giririsssLMAO at waiters not being allowed to wear 13 in OKC because OKC are holding that number for Harden.
oddest shit ever lol
By CRUDIt still kinda saddens me how he refuses to PnR as much as he should and leave the postups to DMo.By matrixBy chandlerparsonsBy matrixHoward is playing just like he did last time against the Knicks at MSG…. like hot garbage.His postups are a thing of beauty. Really loving it being our only option in this lineup.
He hasn't learned shit from Dream.
Fucking depressing.
It's too late for him to learn. I'm not even mad.
vonleh out here getting buckets
MKG double double and Kemba about to get a trip dub on lawry's court
MKG double double and Kemba about to get a trip dub on lawry's court
neal/roberts are still going to give this lead and momentum away, but damn man...
trade al to bolivia
trade al to bolivia
Watching this knicks-rockets game, the only thing that comes to mind is:
what on earth was Sam Presti thinking?
what on earth was Sam Presti thinking?
By giririsssBy matrixSo when Durant leaves to play with Conley and Gasol OKC are going all in on Harden?By giririsssLMAO at waiters not being allowed to wear 13 in OKC because OKC are holding that number for Harden.
oddest shit ever lol
Why would Harden go back there to play with no one and for the team who didn't think he was worth what he's being paid?
Presti is just an idiot.
By dy_nastyLFK
you're here in spirit right now
AC IV has ruined the last two weeks of my life. I forgot there was a game until my body made me get up for food.
I've still got faith 4th quarter Raptors will pull this one out.
By livefromkyotoThis is some stirring basketball right here.
I've put it on mute and have turned up the sound on the cricket.
We're on day 4 of 5. And it's been a slow game.
I'm hoping this is just lingering road trip fatigue. Come back, DeMar!
Canada's the only part of the commonwealth that's not into cricket. I don't get the game. It's like if they went through the baseball rulebook and tried to make every single thing worse.
By giririsssBy livefromkyotoThis is some stirring basketball right here.
I've put it on mute and have turned up the sound on the cricket.
We're on day 4 of 5. And it's been a slow game.
Canada's the only part of the commonwealth that's not into cricket. I don't get the game. It's like if they went through the baseball rulebook and tried to make every single thing worse.