I seem to be seeing a pattern here:
gmoney411 wrote:What Asik and Lin gave the Rockets last year during the regular season is easily replaceable.
gmoney411 wrote:Lin was an average 6th man that the Rockets can replace with the MLE or LLE.
gmoney411 wrote:2. Asik and Lin weren't huge contributors for the Rockets last year. Asik only played in half of the games and sulked for half of those games. Lin was an inconsistent bench player whose production can easily be replaced.
gmoney411 wrote:Everybody wants to just look at the Rockets losing players and say they have lost so much without really looking at what those players brought to the team.
Chandler was the only major loss that had a very positive impact on the Rockets regular season success last year and they replaced him with a player that is likely a better fit.
This seems like a dish at Lin and Asik to me, what were they at Houston? Chopped liver? Seems like its not just Morey treating players like commodity, some of their fans do it too
When Lin and Asik came onto the team the Rockets improved by 12 games and became much more solid as a defensive team compared to the previous team that had Parsons, 3rd year Dragic, Courtney Lee, Lowry, Martin, Morris, Patterson, Scola, Dalembert, Boykins, Budinger, Camby.
In 2013-2014, Houston's defense improved slightly because of Howard, but the increase in offensive production was because Lin's move to the bench boosted the bench scoring when there was literally no big time scorers there at all. We're looking at guys like Berverley, DMO, Garcia, Casspi, Brooks, Asik and scrubs like Hamilton, Canaan, Brewer, Covington and Daniels. And here you are thinking that these scrubs are going to help us get a 50 game win?
Lin averaged 12.5 points per game in just 28.9 minutes coming in and out of the game irregularly in McHale revolving door game plan, while still achieving a triple double off the bench. None of the bench guys could even come close to what Lin did for Houston.
The worst thing though about your Lin drubbing, is that you failed to see that the Rockets replaced Lin with Beverley, the bench point guard who ISN'T EVEN CLOSE to Lin's level in terms of scoring and playmaking.
The only reason why the Rockets made this move was to boost the bench scoring since Beverley was never going to be that guy. This is why Beverley is the lowest minutes-played starter on the team because his job was only to play defense and take 3 pointer shots, he simply isn't that good to be in the entire game for his scoring or playmaking.
Nope but you apparently missed the fact that the Rockets had a better winning percentage without Asik playing last year. Asik moaned and complained for a majority of last season and was not a big contributor to the team. He missed half the season and the Rockets were just fine without him.
gmoney411 wrote: Asik is a really good player and would have been great for the Rockets last year but he didn't want to come off the bench and was either hurt or not trying when he did. He was not a big contributor for the team and they actually won at a higher percentage without him.
Classic Clutchfan logic
The Rockets won 6 games and lost 3 games without Harden, they won 3 games and lost 2 games when he plays under 30 minutes.
In the 2012-2013 season the Rockets won 2 games and lost 2 games without Harden.
I think we can do without Harden as well.
Rockets also made the playoffs without Howard and with an injured Lin, so we can do without Howard as well.
Asik played hard for Houston in his first year, had more total rebounds that year than Dwight did in 2014. Was not asked to be playmaker but nobody would mistaken Dwight of being one either. Asik was expecting to be THE center for Houston but had to make way for Howard, just as Lin was expecting to be THE point guard but had to make way for ISO shooting guard Harden. I think anybody would have been slighted, Lowry did, Dragic did and now they're on better teams. Well guess what, Lin and Asik will now have better careers with their new teams
gmoney411 wrote:If the Rockets can add a rotation player or two and/or get production out of a young guy like Canaan, Nick Johnson, or Daniels they will be a better team.
You mean our scrubs?
Keep dreaming.
gmoney411 wrote:And as I've said before, Ariza is a better fit for the Rockets team as constructed because they were in desperate need of a peremiter defense.
Translation: We paid someone to cover Harden's lousy defense because nobody else was willing to do it and Beverley could only play defense in limited minutes.
What you are missing is that they won 54 games with basically the same core last year.
13-14
Starters - Bev, Harden, Parsons, Jones, Howard
Bench - Lin, DMo, Casspi, Garcia
14-15
Starters - Bev, Harden, Ariza, Jones, Howard
Bench - DMo, Canaan, Daniels, Johnson
Yup, our scrubs on the bench this season are going to outscore everybody.
We won 54 games last season because our scoring load was distributed a lot more, Harden had the ball a lot less, Terence Jones improved tremendously with more playing time and starting and our bench was 100 times better with Lin leading it.
Parsons could have been retained for ~$900k:
This is how much Parsons would be worth going into the 2015 according to the Rockets.
