Yao is good for about 50-60 games per season. If I were Morey, the plan should be to never play Yao on the second part of a back to back during the regular season. He needs more rest than a regular player and get a backup center who can bang in the post. Anderson is better playing like Bargnani throwing up three pointers and every now and then cutting down low for a wide open shot.
Just imagine if we had oh say Nesterovic, Yao and Anderson as interchangeble parts
anderson has me surprised he is playing really well.
So far Aaron, Carl, Lowry, Bud, Scola, and chuck are friggin awesome players that are critical pieces for a championship roster that would do awesome with an all star bigman (not named Yao) because he is too slow and is the an hesis of the offense anyways
Bosh is perfect for the Rockets system but Yao is a force down low and love him or hate him, the dude alters shots and clogs up the entire post defensively. You still can't teach tall and he's way better than any other NBA player of his size. Manute Bol he aint.
You could run a twin towers offense with Yao/Anderson Bosh/Yao or Bosh/Anderson. All great options.
Here is a new tidbit. Comments?
Adelman said he does not know when he will return McGrady to the rotation but seemed to expect McGrady to become effective for the Rockets again.
“A player of his caliber, he’s smart; he’s got skills other people don’t have,” Adelman said. “They’re in him. All the things he did before that came easy, suddenly, they’re harder.
“When you try to incorporate that into your game as a team, that’s the thing I’m struggling with. I’m trying to figure it out. As talented as he is and as smart as he is, once he gets going, he’s going to find a way. I don’t know how long it’s going to take.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/6787617.html
Tracy McGrady saga: What's next?
By Chris Sheridan
In case you missed it, Tracy McGrady is no longer with the Houston Rockets.
Physically, that is.
And perhaps only temporarily.
But if you want to start speculating on whether this separation will lead to a divorce, you'll have to wait a couple more days to have anything of substance to go on.
Coach Rick Adelman said McGrady's status will be re-addressed on Monday and/or Tuesday when the Rockets return home from a two-game back-to-back road trip that began with a 98-93 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Saturday night and concludes in Cleveland on Sunday.
Team sources said they expect the meeting(s) will involve Adelman, McGrady, general manager Daryl Morey and perhaps agent Bob Myers to discuss what will be the best way to move forward regarding McGrady, who wants his playing time increased after being limited to 46 total minutes in six games since he made his return from microfracture surgery on his left knee.
McGrady asked Adelman for an increased role, and the coach told him no. That prompted McGrady to leave the team Saturday following their morning shootaround at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.
It remains to be seen whether McGrady will ever wear a Rockets uniform again, although one team official said Houston does not have any concrete trade offers on the table that they'd deem acceptable while still allowing them to maintain about $8-9 million in cap space (they could have even more space -- "max space" -- if they renounced several key players) to use in the summer of 2010.
"This is my fourth year being in Houston, and as players, whoever is in uniform that night, that's who we go with," Rockets forward Shane Battier said. "But there's been so many injuries, a lot of drama the last couple years, so for me and the guys who have been here, you just get the mentality that all that extracurricular activity and all the injuries, you can't worry about it. And so we've got to go with the guys who performed tonight, and that's the way we've been able to survive."
Does this speed up the timetable on a resolution between McGrady and the Rockets, whose victory Saturday night improved one of the NBA's more surprising records to 18-12?
"I don't know. I think a lot if it has to do with what the front office is thinking. We have a lot of good young players, and when you have a guy like Chase Budinger who's playing really well, and Trevor (Ariza) is developing, it's tough to take minutes away from them. It becomes a numbers game at some point," Battier said. "But Tracy has been nothing but good in the locker room, so I don't think this is a case where he's causing turmoil in the locker room. He's kept his mouth shut, he's worked hard and supported his teammates, and that's the promising part of all this."
Stay tuned.
Good to see the Rockets showin' their collective asses.
Translation: There aren't any good deals out there right now...We are gonna have to wait until the trade deadline
McGrady for Dampier, Carroll, & Shawne Williams.
What do the Rockets do with McGrady now? There's no easy answer
I feel sorry for Tracy McGrady. I could scream about his selfishness, but this thing goes way beyond McGrady caring more about himself than the team. There's a real element of sadness in this deal.
Yes, he bailed on his teammates this weekend. When Rick Adelman wouldn't give him what he wanted, McGrady got mad and left. In that moment, he revealed that he's only a member of a team as long as its in his own best interest.
Yes, he's the NBA's highest-paid player at $22.8 million, so he's not a sympathetic figure in the way most people see sympathetic figures.But he's 30 years old and on the verge of being considered a has-been. Think of how that must feel.
All we know for sure is that McGrady is a s of the player he once was. Is he capable of being great again? That's the thing no one can answer. Meanwhile, the Rockets are playing and winning and doing things almost no one thought possible when they prepared to play a season without Yao Ming, Ron Artest and McGrady. Back when training camp began, we didn't know how good these Rockets would begin.
We've seen a team grow and get better by the day. Carl Landry has emerged as an impact player. So have Chase Budinger and Kyle Lowry and Aaron Brooks. Adelman has done a brilliant job making all the pieces fit together. He may one day look back on these Rockets as one of his proudest accomplishments.
We're now looking at these Rockets differently, but we sitll have no idea how good they're going to be. They enter today's game at Cleveland with an 18-12 record, sixth-best in the Western Conference. They've survived a brutal early schedule on a 49-victory pace. Now they play 12 of their next 17 at home.
It probably is killing McGrady to see how the Rockets have moved on without him. Their stunning success probably hurts him far more deeply than he would admit even to himself.
These Rockets are passionate, unselfish and tough as nails. Those are three traits they didn't always have when Tracy McGrady was their cornerstone. He was once as gifted as any NBA player, but even when he was at his best, there was something missing. McGrady's legacy is that he never won a playoff series. We can rationalize all the different reasons, but the bottom line is clear.
He's incapable of playing the way they're now committed to playing. Instead of turning this team into a training camp for McGrady, Adelman wants to keep moving forward.
So there's no place for McGrady. He wants to play more, but the Rockets don't think he can help.
What do we do now? The Rockets surely are desperately trying to trade him, but a tough economy has made an expiring contract less attractive than it would have been in previous years. If the Rockets trade him now, they're going to have to throw a Chase Budinger or Carl Landry into the deal. Daryl Morey is unwilling to do that.
Adelman and McGrady will meet again before Tuesday's game to determine a course of action. Adelman seems unlikely to promise more playing time, and McGrady has been unwilling to accept less.
Not that these meetings matter. Adelman thought he and McGrady had reached an agreement in their previous meeting. McGrady would trust Adelman to do what was best for both the Rockets and him. Almost immediately, he began complaining that he needed more time.
If I had a guess, I'd guess McGrady will not be back on the bench when the Rockets play New Orleans Tuesday night. I just can't see him putting the uniform back on after this latest dustup.
I just hope someone in his camp is telling him the truth. That truth is going to be tough to hear. It's that he has no allies in the locker room, none on the coaching staff or front office. Some fans still believe, but that's because they're seeing McGrady for what he once was or what they'd like him to be instead of what he actually is.
http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice...ortsJustice%29
Yeah I know it's hilarious....the Rockets are getting so much in return for a player averaging 3 points a game. The Mavericks would be idiots to make that trade.
McGrady was to be in uniform for those 2 games, but instead chose to leave, he WAS NOT sent home
[Tracy left the team when Adelman refused to commit to playing him the minutes he wanted to play. McGrady was to be in uniform for both games.--Richard]
[McGrady chose to leave.--Richard]
Houston Chronicle writer Richard Justice
http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice...ortsJustice%29
Total bedlam in Houston. Good to see.
Anyone watching Ariza stink it up, and Mr. intangibles become invisible in most games, and not seeing where Tracy can get his minutes from is re ed. He has been the good soldier and played within the system in his short stints, and looked pretty good in doing so. I think Tracy is a , but he's a that makes the team better so I'm willing to accept it. Shane Battier and Ariza should each give ten of their minutes to McGrady, because that would put another weapon on the floor for the Rockets (neither of these mother ers are instilling fear in anyone). Rick Adelman is a good coach but this seems to be personal on his part. Using the weak excuse that he doesn't want to another Chris Webber situation makes no sense because the severity of the two injuries is like night and day. McGrady had a 2 mm spot of cartilage wearing thin on a non-weightbearing part of his knee. Doctors said other than that, the rest of his knee looked extremely healthy. Chris Webbers knee was bone on bone (as bad as it could possibly get) and they were pretty much having to drill holes to replace 95% of the cartilage in his knee. It's almost like comparing a firecracker going off in your hand to a grenade doing the same thing. IMO Adelman is being a about last year.
Think about it, as an expiring contract we would a wing scorer. Plenty of teams are losing big money and will deal a good player say like a Kevin Martin, because he has a long deal and we can take another bad contract off their hands. Trust me we will get what we're looking for in time.
McGrady and Scola for Jefferson, Mason and Bonner
Either way the wife will be opening the ketchup bottle henceforth.
tee, hee.
It was an example fool.
So you would trade one career injured pussy, for another. Great.
We don't want your garbage.
McGrady for Bynum, Vujacic and Walton
Sure, why not?
If worst comes to worst we can send him to the Knicks for more expirings then watch him break down while trying to play uptempo basketball.
Throw in Scola there, we'll throw another role player and we have a dealSure, why not?
Artest scored 13 points and fouled out while guarding LeBron James in the Lakers' 102-87 loss to Cleveland earlier Friday.
Shannon Brown.
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