**The Roc Boys Are In The Building!: The Houston Rockets 2013-14 Season Thread**

[King Jove]

dude is trash!!

i know but coming in we knew we desperately needed a power forward and still haven't gotten one.

howard is not a pf and he can't play with asik.

the spacing is horrible when they're on the floor together it give less room for howard to operate in the post () and shuts down the paint for our own guards.

it's either him or greg smith and greg smith is even more

 

[Primetime]

surrounding howard with shooters has worked in the past. and honestly I feel like he wouldn't mesh well with a low post scorer because people would play off him. and the paint would be too clogged up for harden and lin to take advantage of their abilities in penetrating.

Sure but houston already has enough shooters and a pretty good small ball lineup with 4.casspi 3.parsons(or garcia) 2.harden 1.beverly (or lin) surrounding dwight at the 5. And that past shyt with dwight+shooters worked against flawed teams with flawed big men like Lebron's Cavs and 40+ win hawk/philly/bobcat teams.. but fell apart when goin up against well crafted title contenders like the celtics and the lakers... and houston is gonna face more well crafted title contenders this year than orlando did in '09 or '10.

Aldridge would work imo because he can be a solid 15-20 foot shooter, so when him and dwight start off games at the 4 and 5, they can easily run those high low big men reads that gasol and zbo do, where LA flashes to the top of the key during a dwight post up and has an easy jumper or an easy dump down to dwight. Not to mention LA can also do a pick and pop, which makes things more spread out for harden and the other houston guards.

And of course, when howard is out and LA is in dolo, thats when he can actually have the low post to himself.. and have the aforementioned small ball shooters around him...

but like its been mentioned, that would be the dream trade thats unlikely to happen unless something absolutely crazy goes down in portland

 

[Jerz-2]

 

[who_better_than_me]

We should've never traded 2Pat. He be a good cheap complimentary player to Howard

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

How many dudes told yall, ya team ain't gonna be shyt?

'Oh but no no, we have got TWO top five players, it's championship or bust, the league gonna be scared now, who's gonna stop us in the west?'

 

[who_better_than_me]

How many dudes told yall, ya team ain't gonna be shyt?

'Oh but no no, we have got TWO top five players, it's championship or bust, the league gonna be scared now, who's gonna stop us in the west?'

Shut ur tstupid ass up. It's only 2 weeks into the season and a fluke shot got us sitting at 4-2 instead 5-1. Guess now we can end our postseasons dream and start tanking. NBA season is annoying. You nigguh's overreact more than Monique

 

[THASTUNNA]

we got along way to go. we still 4 - 2

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Shut ur tstupid ass up. It's only 2 weeks into the season and a fluke shot got us sitting at 4-2 instead 5-1. Guess now we can end our postseasons dream and start tanking. NBA season is annoying. You nigguh's overreact more than Monique

at your delusional ass.

Tell me how this story is gonna end good for yall?

 

[Charlie Broadway]

Too much football going on last night. First Rockets game I didn't see in a long time but it looks like I didn't miss much smh. I can't speak for last night but just overall:

Dwight is Dwight and I don't expect him to change his stripes and lead this team. That means James has to lead this team but in saying that it's gonna be hard to take us seriously as a contender when he's giving the type of effort on defense that he's been giving. I'm not sure there's an easier way for him to add to his game than to play defense consistently but he's not even doing that. Sometime it seems like the whole team played harder in the preseason. He's the leader, he sets the tone for the team, he needs to get that shyt together.

Beyond that the twin towers experiment had its promising moments in the preseason but that shyt needs to get tossed in the bushes.

 

[THE K-MAN]

i know its early and i believe they gonna gel just fine but yes the Asik/Howard combo is not gonna work

turnovers and some very bad shot selection at time

we really lack LEADERSHIP....just soft and motionless at times

 

[Primetime]

Yea turnovers, leadership.. and perimeter defense. if you cant guard the 3 you finna get lit up in the west and by miami in the east. JJ reddikk looking like an all star and shyt.

Dwight got butterfingers. I kno asik is worse but dwight is the one they be tryna post up and he stay fumbling the ball when he drives. I ignored it in the preseason as rust but he gotta fix that shyt

At this point, or if this continues, they may need a point guard more than a big man for asik as theres no leadership or intelligence from the guards. I dont even blame asik starting b/c if harden is jackin up 28 fters and milking the shot clock, and dwight is fumbling, and its just quick shots all around.. then asik becomes the scape goat to mask a very undisciplined ball club

 

[the cool]

jeremy lin biggest fraud ever. ya'll signed him to 35 millions because of two weeks of good basketball play under dantoni's system

the same system that chris duhon got 20 assists in

 

[vybzinc]

So far this season.....

 

[THE K-MAN]

lets get a damn win tonight

losing these damn home games

 

[King Jove]

lin