Tmac back at practice

[DaDakota]

C'mon man, just quit. It was quite obvious that you were seriously trying to be the of every guy like "Tinman" or "DaDakota" or anyone that had a 'name' at clutchfans. You were desperate to get unbanned or even when your "member" status was revoked and there's no way around that. You were very annoying to everyone there. I understand that since then your opinion of that site has taken a complete 180 and I can completely respect that. But don't try to say you weren't being serious.

Exactly.

DD

[Lars]

Cluthfans is cool, although they can be onesided when it comes to T-mac (DD ) and some of our players (For some reason Landry is the next coming of Carl Malone there, and I would personally rather ship him out for an average center). That is going to happen on any fan site though, (have you been in the Spurs section lately? ) because that's just the nature of the beast. You and DD are both cool (although you can be annoyingly persistent in your arguments even when you've been proven wrong DD) you just have different approaches to how you support your team. Not a damn thing wrong with that.

Ive never seen them put Landry on this high of a pedestool.

[DaDakota]

Ive never seen them put Landry on this high of a pedestool.

We also know it is Karl Malone....and we are not real fond of him either.

DD

[The Franchise]

Ive never seen them put Landry on this high of a pedestool.

That was an exaggeration, but the point is they think he is just this mountain of potential that's just not there. He is at his ceiling. The only way he gets any better is if he is sent to a horrible team that will allow him to play major minutes. Even with Yao and T-mac out the Rockets aren't that team. There are others also, like Shane (mr. intangibles) Battier. " If we can't get Fernandez and Pryzbilla for Shane in a trade NO DEAL!" WTF?! That is the kind of re ed nonsense Sook is referring to.

[sook]

That was an exaggeration, but the point is they think he is just this mountain of potential that's just not there. He is at his ceiling. The only way he gets any better is if he is sent to a horrible team that will allow him to play major minutes. Even with Yao and T-mac out the Rockets aren't that team. There are others also, like Shane (mr. intangibles) Battier. " If we can't get Fernandez and Pryzbilla for Shane in a trade NO DEAL!" WTF?! That is the kind of re ed nonsense Sook is referring to.

I can see where the adulation of carl comes from. He's a hard worker. came into this league expected not to do anything, and than all of a sudden he comes in during februrary or january of 08 and becomes an integral part of the rockets winning 22 games.

I see where you're coming from though, he is an undersized PF at best, and his ceiling isn't very high as you said. I wish we had gotten villanueva for him when we could have though

[Lars]

He is young, athletic, energetic, has a mid range jumper and already had a playoff game winning play. Not sure what more you want from him.

[duncan228]

Rockets notes: Battier, McGrady rehab on track
By Jonathan Feigen

Time to experiment

With the Rockets playing their first three preseason games in the next four days, they will experiment not only with rotations and combinations but also with strategies.

Coach Rick Adelman said he could use players for extended minutes in one game, replacing them with other players in the next game. He sounded more interested to see how different schemes would work. Against the Spurs tonight, he could try double teams and defensive rotations he did not use with Yao Ming last season. Against the Celtics, he might look at ways to send help defense.

“We're going to do that for sure,” Adelman said. “We're going to pick games, who we're playing (against) and what they like to do.”

Rehabs on track

Tracy McGrady had no problems Monday, the day after his first scrimmage with the Rockets in training camp. As planned, the Rockets stepped up a portion of his off-court workouts, though he did not scrimmage.

Shane Battier added shooting drills to his rehabilitation from a pulled hamstring. He is not likely to return to practices until the Rockets return from their road trip Saturday.

Early test

The Rockets will pit their retooled offense against the Spurs, Celtics and Magic, who were second, third and sixth in scoring defense last season. Boston was first, Orlando third and San Antonio ninth in opposing field-goal percentage.

“That's what we're going to have to see through the season,” forward Trevor Ariza said. “They are three of the best defensive teams in the league. We'll see where we have to go if we want to be that type of team.”

The Rockets were seventh in scoring defense and fifth in field-goal percentage defense last season. They consider this week's games a first test of whether they can stay at that level.

[The Franchise]

He is young, athletic, energetic, has a mid range jumper and already had a playoff game winning play. Not sure what more you want from him.

I was talking about the over the top ceiling that some posters at Clutchfans have given him. Don't get me wrong though. I like Carl, and think he brings a lot of energy off the bench, but I also see he won't be much more than he already is. I also think his production can be easily replaced for less money than he's being paid. I was mainly just making the point that I have seen a few of our players way overvalued on Clutchfans.

[Indazone]

Landry knows how to win and his main problem is trying to post up and dunk the ball every time against taller defenders. He just needs to watch Scola a bit more and take some of those moves from him. It's a matter of footwork and reverse layups. Dude can dribble and has a nice 17-18 foot shot. I think he has tremendous upside and his efficiency is still very high.

[Scola]

I hope the Houston/TMac experiment finally comes to an end. The guy is talented but way too injury prone. Trade him for young talent and hope Yao can stay healthy.