That's a pattern of injury. Just like Oden. They may be different injuries, but shows that some guys can't play an entire season.
It certainly can be. As one analyst put it, "Health is a skill and some players don't have it." Even if none of the injuries are recurring, some players aren't very durable and end up missing time due to one ailment or another.
replaceable meaning they don't need him to win games. this is yao's team now. wafer and barry definitely don't equal tmac, but they really are better complimentary pieces to yao. both guys are shooting over 44% from the floor and around 40% from 3. they along with battier and artest can create space for yao to work with or punish teams that leave them open like tmac was unable to do(he was much more of a pull up shooter than a spot on one). this year the rockets have enough players other than tmac that can attack teams off the dribble so that they haven't been as reliant on him as in the past. the rockets have played 18 games without tmac this year. they are 12-6 in those games. with tmac they are only 21-15.
the people had houston being one of the top 3 teams before the season werent looking at reality! Houston= Hurtson, Fragilton...etc hate to say this but houston was fools gold and they turned out to be what we thought they were.... to quote!
Wow, what one typo can do. I meant to write "yet his teams never seem too much worse without him" not "seen too much worse without him." You and I agree on this point. As good as he is, he isn't critical to the success of the Rockets as his statistics would imply.
That really sucks for Rockets fans. Wouldn't it be funny though if they finally made it out of the first round without Tracy?
Brooks. Wafer is a volume scorer and doesn't really bring anything else to fill a stat sheet. Atleast with Brooks you'll get some assists along with the points and he will even get you a couple steals.
Nope. Might be Bill James, or someone at Baseball Prospectus. I don't remember who, now. I don't think it necessarily applied to Walton, though...he had a recurring injury, rather that a continual series of different injuries.
