<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Our friend in Brazil guessed right: Samuel Dalembert is the runaway leader in being called for goaltending, and also among the highest players in goaltend % --of the players with five or more goaltends, only Stromile Swift and Eddy Curry have worse percentages.</div> 82games.com The guy clearly is not a good shotblocker. His goaltending percentage is 18%, which leads the league. Alright so let me put this into perspective, Swift has no post moves, he goaltends way too much (not a good shotblocker), doesn't know the plays, and has next to no knowledge/fundamentals of the game of basketball. Its really great we locked him up for five million a year for four more years, I got a good feeling about him "breaking out" .
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting AznxBaller:</div><div class="quote_post">82games.com The guy clearly is not a good shotblocker. His goaltending percentage is 18%, which leads the league. Alright so let me put this into perspective, Swift has no post moves, he goaltends way too much (not a good shotblocker), doesn't know the plays, and has next to no knowledge/fundamentals of the game of basketball. Its really great we locked him up for five million a year for four more years, I got a good feeling about him "breaking out" .</div> And with all those deficiencies he was STILL arguably better than Juwan Howard last season, who was praised game after game by the Rockets announcers as someone having a great year. It was Swift's first year in a new system. And statistically he was way down from his last couple years in Memphis. He'll never have great instincts for the game, but that doesn't mean he still can't be a productive per minute player coming off the bench. That said, if there's a single player on the team most likely to be traded, it would probably be him. I wouldn't get too comfortable if I was Luther Head either.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> And with all those deficiencies he was STILL arguably better than Juwan Howard last season, who was praised game after game by the Rockets announcers as someone having a great year. It was Swift's first year in a new system. And statistically he was way down from his last couple years in Memphis. He'll never have great instincts for the game, but that doesn't mean he still can't be a productive per minute player coming off the bench. </div> Its obvious neither Howard nor Swift should be starters on any team (at powerforward anyway). In my opinion though, they're around the same- Howard gives you a bit more offense (value scorer though) while Swift is just frustrating to watch. This is his adjustment season though, but a lot of the times when players got their first new system, they didn't take that much of a nosedive. I'd would be content with him as a productive per minute role player like you suggested, but its just annoying that his contract has years to go. I doubt he'll improve much, other than perhaps a little bump here and there over the years.
my wishlist lineup for next year: pg: Alston/ Daniel Gibson/ sg: Tracy Mcgrady/ Luther Head/Spanoulis Sf: Rudy Gay/ kieth bogans/ Pf: Stromile Swift/ Juwan howard/ Chuck Hayes C: Yao ming/ Deke I believe in stromile. I believe he is a player that he will only succeed if the team is succeeding around him. When we lose his game drops.
