Getting The Point: Is a Surplus Enough?

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Talk about the Rockets' roster, consider changes and trades and ways to find that long-sought power forward solution, and we've all assumed the same premise.

Call it what you will.

The Rockets have a "surplus" of point guards, a "glut" at the position.

I have to ask.

What surplus? What glut?

It hit me today. I watched Aaron Brooks for a few minutes of Monday's practice before the summer league team headed to Las Vegas. You can't make judgments from a summer league practice, game or week, but the kid really does have some jets.

I talked to John Lucas III. He decided to skip the summer league to stick with the training regimen he has been in since the end of the Rockets season.

I thought about the veterans, Mike James and Rafer Alston, ahead of them, and answered a few emails about Vassilis Spanoulis, whom I think would rather clean the gutters at Jeff Van Gundy's house than return to the Rockets next season. I started thinking about the points and it hit me. What glut?

James and Alston might make a solid combination. Brooks is a talented, if small, kid to develop. He might even be a nice change of pace. But this is not the Suns, with Kevin Johnson and Jason Kidd under contract, drafting Steve Nash. It's not the Spurs, with Tony Parker ready to blossom, pursuing Kidd in free agency.

You still have to like Parker and Nash and Deron Williams and Baron Davis and Chris Paul among Western Conference point guards. But the Rockets would like the combination of Alston and James to hold their own.

Trade one or the other, and do the Rockets have a glut?

For that matter, do they have enough?</div>

Source: Houston Chronicle