Bonzi Wells

[A.J.]

After that Blazers game lost, I feel like we need somemore toughness on our team. How about we cut Wafer and sign Bonzi Wells? He played well in past under Adelman. And he could play both the 2 and 3 for us like last season.

[HTown_TMac]

Can we lose a game without seeing 500 threads.

Ill wait till mornin to post clips gamethread
let all the venting get out

[MaxRider]

lol
Bonzi Wells aint the answer
it's too early to hit the panic button

[A.J.]

Im telling you guys, we need toughness.

[RaoulDuke79]

Play Dorsey some. Sign Dikembe. Get Battier back.

[TMU]

We're losing games because we play poor defense and give up too many offensive boards.

Give Dorsey some PT. I want like to know if he can compete with the opposing team's big men (6'9'' or above). If Dorsey can't do just that, we need to bring Mutombo back. Hayes and Landry aren't enough.

[TMACFORMVP]

LOL @ Bonzi being our answer...

He plays in the same area our three best players play in, he's inconsistent, can't shoot, a rather poor defender when we're already struggling defensively and wouldn't get many minutes when Battier comes back and could create locker room troubles.

Bonzi is a horrible idea..

[CJballa14]

How is Bonzi a terrible idea? Are ya'll really still stuck on the one season he came in out of shape and clashed with JVG?

Bonzi out there today would have added more toughness and rebounding. Yao is so soft in the paint that we have to put rebounders around him. We can't continue to be outrebounded.

Brent Barry got abused on the defensive end today too by the way. I would have rather seen Luther out there guarding Fernandez...

[tisbee]

Starting to think the Rockets really screwed up by keeping Wafer over Strawberry. W/Battier out and T-Mac still not 100% the Rockets could really use a defender for the quick gds.
And the player the Rockets should be calling every 30 seconds is McDyess. Read article that said Rockets have @$4.5mil available for FAs. (Either Landry wasn't signed w/the MLE or the writer added up the leftover MLE and added the TE.)

[Mike12345]

How is Bonzi a terrible idea? Are ya'll really still stuck on the one season he came in out of shape and clashed with JVG?

Bonzi out there today would have added more toughness and rebounding. Yao is so soft in the paint that we have to put rebounders around him. We can't continue to be outrebounded.

Brent Barry got abused on the defensive end today too by the way. I would have rather seen Luther out there guarding Fernandez...

How do you see a 2 guard or small forward being our need??? Our main problem is upfront and point guard consistency. Yao has slowed down this offense,,,,has not been blocking shots,,,,and has really not played like a superstar when other teams are physical with him. Another problem is there knowone physical beside him both scola and landry are undersized.

Adelmans offense runs way smoother without yao and were quicker on D,,,,,,so many times yao is slow on the rotation i.e. that fernandez drive. Yaos also not getting many double teams.

Our weakness is upfront and any other addition to this team would not help,,,,,unless its an experienced point guard to play with brooks.

[moofs]

AJ, if you really want to "add toughness", get Les to sign Kimbo Slice. Bonzi is a terrible idea.

Tisbee, in the short term, yeah it's bad. I'm not sure it's the wrong decision long term though.

Our problems are that we aren't playing great defense (as TMU said), playing terrible offense, Artest is a bonehead at running schemes (something we were warned we'd see) and jacks up some really ill-advised shots, Battier is out, Yao's getting owned repeatedly, Barry is NOT looking like the great signing I expected him to be (we're getting .357/300 shooting with 1 assist and TERRIBLE defense in 22 mpg hooray! Sure hope he shapes up....), Alston is playing worse than he's ever played for us, Chuck Hayes hasn't been anywhere near as effective per minute as he's been in the past, we don't have Mutombo backing up Yao like we've had since TMac got here, Battier's out (mentioned twice since I know how much his impact on the team gets underrated here). Thank goodness for Scola and Brooks. There's a lot of problems and they're all having a cascase effect on each other. While it's bugging me too, remember we had this same issue last year (while similarly trying to run Adelman's offense...).

ISN'T IT INCREDIBLE HOW THAT "THIRD OPTION" THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WE ABSOLUTELY NEEDED TO HAVE DIDN'T SOLVE OUR OFFENSIVE PROBLEMS? GEE IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE'S MORE TO FIXING THAT SORT OF THING THAN JUST ADDING A BIG NAME? NAH. It's certainly not possible either that we just need more time for everyone to heal up and get in sync. No, that can't be it. As always with this board, the solution is a stupid knee-jerk trade.

[RocketRed]

If some of you guys on here were actually GM, we'd make a trade or waive and pick up a player after every loss.

[tisbee]

Moofs,
I respectfully disagree on Wafer being long-term better than Strawberry. Wafer only offers inconsistant offense. Strawberry gives you good defense,good open court play and the potential of maybe developing a 3pt shot-like Bowen,Raja Bell and others have done. But water under the bridge and all that.
The bigger problem is what the team does have. It's not all Ron but let's face it,the team has Artest playing instead of Battier and the defense has gotten incredibly worse. Yes,Yao has lost a step-or two-and has no vertical lift and T-Mac can't guard anybody that makes him move,but w/out the threat of Battier's helping out by drawing a charge,the Rocket interior is wide open.
The Rockets are getting killed on the glass and some want to move Artest to PF ?

[moofs]

Moofs,
I respectfully disagree on Wafer being long-term better than Strawberry. Wafer only offers inconsistant offense. Strawberry gives you good defense,good open court play and the potential of maybe developing a 3pt shot-like Bowen,Raja Bell and others have done. But water under the bridge and all that.
The bigger problem is what the team does have. It's not all Ron but let's face it,the team has Artest playing instead of Battier and the defense has gotten incredibly worse. Yes,Yao has lost a step-or two-and has no vertical lift and T-Mac can't guard anybody that makes him move,but w/out the threat of Battier's helping out by drawing a charge,the Rocket interior is wide open.
The Rockets are getting killed on the glass and some want to move Artest to PF ?

You could well be right on that. Dunno. Either way, whichever one of them we kept was going to likely be a small time contributor. The reason I think it's only bad short term is that I think Battier will fill the gap Strawberry would be bridging when he gets back. I'd be more inclined to agree with you if I could tell whether Barry was just slumping or too old, but didn't want to say much because i think either way it's a very minor issue, like not buying a mint 2006 corvette for $8000 because you don't like the hubcaps.

As far as the Artest at PF in the second paragraph, I'm chalking that behaviour up to the bizarre "solutions" we always see after every loss. On the "bigger problem", completely agree.

[BaYBaller]

Wow you can't be serious. We have frontcourt depth issues, not a lack of unmotivated, selfish, cancerous, only-one-good-playoff-series-in-his-entire-career-players. And I am sick and tired of all these people wanting more "toughness." It only shows your complete lack of understanding of the game of basketball. Yeah there's mental toughness and there are physical players, but Bonzi Wells is neither of those things.

[jove9]

If some of you guys on here were actually GM, we'd make a trade or waive and pick up a player after every loss.

Waive Yao!

[DreamShook34]

Bonzi Wells? REALLY?! cut von wafer and get us a center thats all we need. Mcdyeese or Eddie Curry. We should have picked up Kwame Brown when he was a free agent.. we just need someone mobile in the middle when yao isnt there he doesnt have to be good or score just fill passing lanes and JUMP when someone drives