"Official" Around the NBA January 2015

Grizzlies got Jeff Green.

 

Cutting victor and signing Tayshaun Prince would be almost like having nothing to loose and everything to gain.

 

Victor Claver is a pawn, and Tayshaun Prince is the other side of the board.

Plus man it's Tayshaun Prince.

 

Wow 3 games...Injuries? Did you miss the part of the season where the Rockets were down to 8 players at times and playing dleague players major minutes? Even starting them? When Harden carried the team to wins so much so that people think the team is better without Dwight? Missed that part? Rockets have been the most injury plagued team outside of the Thunder and Pacers this year, we were missing three starters (including Dwight) for a while and were lucky that Donatas Motiejunas decided that this year would be his break out year. Rockets are healthy now but they have been in this #3 spot for most of the season, at least give them credit for that.

Why do you continue to bring up the Pistons being 9-1? They are not the alternate universe version of our team, if they go 9-1 the Rockets then don't go 1-9. Their 9-1 is completely...completely irrelevant to the Rockets record. Not sure why it is even bought up. It is relevant to Josh Smith but not to the Rockets.

Sample size man. You are comparing 27 games to 10 and find nothing wrong with that. At least fonz and blazersducksfan are saying the record is the reason, it's legit. You want to use that reason? Well then, the Rockets only ost 4 games with Smith. Checkmate. (It's actually more than that, 6-4 is just their previous 10 game record...)

When the Rockets first got Josh Smith they did not have a easy schedule, played some tough teams while trying to adjust with new players and it didn't turn out well. Now they had a chance to realize Smith should come off the bench and regroup against lesser teams (teams they all put away quite easily) and we will see where they are at with this upcoming schedule. I even said then that the reason the Rockets were 4-6 or whatever the record was was simply because of the schedule. They stayed afloat though as you can see, remained close enough through the poor stretch and bump up in schedule to get back up to the 3 spot.

But a week ago you were saying that the Rockets would fall down and even out of the playoffs and yet again...here they are, 3rd in the conference and 4th in NBA total. They moved up and Smith has been good coming off the bench, we will see how they will do with the upcoming schedule again, that's fair.

 

What's so good about Jeff Green?

 

He can score off the bench and can play 2-3 positions.

 

Superbeard, where to start? Rockets have had Smith for 10 games. It's not more than that. We have had more injuries to our best players. Batum and Aldridge have missed several games. Robin Lopez has missed 13 games. Freeland, Crabbe, CJ, and Kaman have also missed games. And we are still 30-8. I love that you blame the schedule on the Rockets' slide, lol. The Pelicans, hahaha. We own those guys.

 

We'll see if he makes them any better. I can score off the bench and play 2-3 positions too.

 

I just looked it up. Dwight only missed 12 games. Lopez 13 and counting. Aldridge is our top scorer and he missed 4 games during a tough road trip. Also, Batum missed 6 games.

 

And Lillard and Wes have injuries but play through them.

 

Smith has not been good coming off the bench. He still thinks he's a three point shooter. If that continues, Rockets will lose in playoffs. If they get there.

 

And the reason the Rockets had to play dleague players major minutes is because they have no depth.

 

Then again, this is all that matters. When the money's on the table....

 

I'm sure Jeff Green would be untouchable if he was on the Blazers team.

 

No way! Olshey missed the boat on this one. He should have gone hard after Jeff Green so we could have packaged him with Damian Lillard for Mike Conley.

BNM

 

I want him. I want him bad.

 

Backup SF might be our biggest need (if not then it is backup SG).... Prince is a shell of his former self though.