Houston Rockets 09-10 Season 42-40 See you next season

Originally Posted by RetroBaller

i really dont know why we dont give him the 30 minutes a game.
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with the Rockets winning like this. What for? He's a liability. Dont get me wrong Tmac is nice but the Rockets play hard without him. Wedidnt need him then and we dont need him now. When he first came to the team he had his spark but its faded.
 
Originally Posted by PolosandDunks

Originally Posted by RetroBaller

i really dont know why we dont give him the 30 minutes a game.
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with the Rockets winning like this. What for? He's a liability. Dont get me wrong Tmac is nice but the Rockets play hard without him. We didnt need him then and we dont need him now. When he first came to the team he had his spark but its faded.
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did we ever give him a fair shot though?
i feel like we never knew what he could have added to the team.
 
YES!! We got another win one against those d-bags from Dallas.
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AB with 30 tonight
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What a great way to finish off 09, let's keep surprising people in 2010.
 
I have never seen another team play as hard as Houston. Somewhere Olajuwon is smiling. Houston is about to go on their annual winning streak.
 
yao ming was in Los Angeles last night at some chinese restaurant.. saw him but he was rollin' with some chinese embassadors or something.. can't waittil he comes back
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Fri, Jan. 1

According to a source close to the situation, the Houston Rockets have said they would only consider shipping McGrady to the Sixers if the Sixers "knocked the Rockets over" with the amount of young talent included in the deal.

The source said that the teams have not spoken in "more than a week," but that a deal involving Iguodala "has a chance."

The Rockets, one of only a handful of NBA teams willing to take on salary, would have to be overwhelmed by the talent included - perhaps power forward Thaddeus Young, point guard Lou Williams, or center Marreese Speights - to take on contracts for McGrady's expiring deal.

The same source said the Rockets were unwilling to trade McGrady for Sixers center Samuel Dalembert and power forward Elton Brand, although the source confirmed that the Sixers have been trying to unload both players.
Another article on this situation.

According to this source, the Rockets have expressed interest in a deal involving Iguodala, but he must be paired with better, younger talent than Dalembert. (Read: a deal involving possibly Lou Williams, Thaddeus Young, Marreese Speights, etc.).

Again, the Rockets are willing to take on money, but it'd have to be a special package and a 3rd team might even need to be involved. This source said this would be the kind of deal where both teams needed approval from ownership because of the amount of money and players involved.

The source also said that the Rockets and Sixers have not talked in "more than a week", making a deal unlikely, but said any deal involving Iguodala "has a chance."

So there's the latest on the NBA's most talked about trading chip: Tracy McGrady.

The problem with the Sixers making a deal involving Iguodala and young talent is that they'd be getting rid of some good young guys and remain with Brand and Dalembert, which is sort of the opposite of the point of making such a trade.



We don't want either of those two or their contracts, but we'd rather take Dalembert than Brand. I think Iggy has enough of a bad contract in thissituation.

If we were to get this trade done I'm guessing Chase Budinger would have to be included in the deal. Otherwise we'd have Iggy/Ariza/Chase/Shane at the2/3,
Iggy plays with energy, he plays d, and is athletic. He'd be perfect here. His contract is another story.


And Philly seems desperate to get some cap relief, and we're in no pressure to make an abrupt trade. Morey is too damn smart for that, as the tradedeadline approaches
and Philly gets more and more desperate, I'm sure they'll be more willing to make a trade.

I like this scenario far more than anything I've heard so far.
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Rick shoulda just gave him some minutes. If you're gonna shop him around for something then that's usually how you'd do it.

What's the worst that could've happened? really?
 
Originally Posted by PH3N0M3N0N

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Rick shoulda just gave him some minutes. If you're gonna shop him around for something then that's usually how you'd do it.

What's the worst that could've happened? really?
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Rick just really didn't feel T-Mac was ready for bigger minutes, and he also didn't want to hurt team chemistry, but that's what I've read.But I just think this whole situation was far from
repairable, T-Mac and the Rockets organization have been at odds since last year when he announced through his website he was getting knee surgery, withouteven
consulting or telling the Rockets. From there it's just been a bad situation.


In other news: Here is Iggy's latest twitter update http://twitter.com/AI9
Is it pure coincidence or is he getting at something?
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Originally Posted by RevTommy34

^^iguodala? Ill take it... Only a person from Texas could read into that.
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Haha. Not from Texas. But Slim Thug, Paul Wall, and Mike Jones were tippin' in 2005.

*Really wanted to say the Mavs suck to JA. Too late now. Yeh, I am salty.
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I'd like break this losing streak, albeit two games, tonight. We almost beat the Suns last time we played but like many other games we lost it at the end.

I'm pretty sure our offense will look way better than that crap we saw last night. And hopefully Chase is able to contribute tonight.
 
Damn, we've lost three in a row for the first this season
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We were in all the games, and down every stretch of every game we just couldn't pull these w's out.

Also I'd like to bring this to the attention of you guys, " I'm not trying to start stuff, but did anyone see just there the reaction from TrevorAriza when Aaron Brooks didn't pass the ball back? He shook his head kind of in disgust a couple of times and then just stood there like the play was over.Again, don't want to overreact ... but seems to me that he gets frustrated with Aaron often." Clutch from Clutchfans.net

I noticed this too and it pisses me off when I see him get mad or acting like a little @+@%+ on the court, if Aaron doesn't pass you the ball it'sbecause he knows and so does everyone else on the court that he's more likely to make a play than you are. I've never liked seeing that in any player,especially those who aren't even all-star worthy. Kobe seems to do this a lot, but it's Kobe, so do some other star players, but again they'restars. Ariza is not a star.
 
Wow, both teams had big leads in the game. The Suns came back though at the end.

Still don't get why T-Mac ain't playing. Wanted to sign Von Wafer for offensive help, but refuse to let T-Mac play. A rusty and slow T-Mac can stillgive you the 10 pts that Wafer gives you. Yeah, T-Mac wanted more PT, but who wouldn't when you are only given 7 min a game. Dude can play 20 at least now.10 min a half ain't too much.

Ariza learned too much from his big brother Kobe. Learning to shoot efficiently would help though.
 
By Marc Stein
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BOISE, Idaho -- Here are the best (and last) dribbles of chatter from the NBA grapevine as collected from various executives, scouts and insiders who gathered to watch 16 teams play two games each in a four-day span at the annual D-League Showcase:

Some 40 days from the league's annual trading deadline, no one in Boise could say with any certainty that the Toronto Raptors are going to be willing to move Chris Bosh ahead of the Feb. 18 trade buzzer.

No one has a firm read on Toronto's intentions yet.

What we did hear, though, is that the Houston Rockets have made it known that they would be willing to trade for Bosh immediately … even if they don't get a guarantee they can re-sign him this summer.

That's the problem with any sort of Bosh deal at midseason. Even if the Raps do decide they want to make Bosh available now and avoid the threat of losing him without compensation in free agency after July 1, there's an overwhelming majority of teams that wouldn't dare consider trading for Bosh in February without some sort of assurance they could keep him.

But Houston is different.

Sources say the ever-aggressive Rockets are sure a half-season in Houston could convince the native Texan to pledge his long-term future to a city players love as well as a team that sits four games over .500 without the injured Yao Ming and the exiled Tracy McGrady. The Rockets also have the requisite stash of young assets, as evidenced by their success this season without marquee names, to assemble a legit deal for Toronto to consider … and without insisting that McGrady's mammoth $22.5 million salary has to be part of it.

You figure Chicago, Miami and New York also are on the short list of teams that would be willing to risk trading for Bosh before we get to the summer. Those are the teams thought to have the best shot at signing him in free agency and could inherit Bosh's Larry Bird rights with a deal before the deadline. None of them, though, can offer a better talent deal than Houston. The Heat and Knicks -- with their heavily stripped-down rosters as the countdown continues to July 1 -- can't come close.

The Raps recently have inched back to .500, just got point guard Jose Calderon back from a hip injury and still expect bruising forward Reggie Evans to start playing in the second half of the season after recovering from a foot problem to provide some needed toughness. So there's a good case for Toronto to put off any major decisions until the offseason.

The Raptors have long believed, furthermore, that Bosh will participate in a sign-and-trade this summer -- if he decides to leave Canada after saying repeatedly that he loves the place -- before walking away outright from the franchise that drafted him.

I nonetheless was advised this week to expect Houston to make a hard Bosh push during these next 40 days if the Raptors invite it. Or perhaps even if they don't invite it.

That tale alone made it a worthy trip.
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Landry, Brooks, Battier and Hayes + a 1st rounder is young enough and can conceivably get it done and do McGrady a favor by not sending him to Toronto. Butthat guts the team just for 1 guy and probably Calderon, and the big sticking oint for me is Bosh still will test the market.

Thats a big roll of the dice for a team that ain't winning anything major this year.
 
The Rockets need Battier in the locker room and just being the great professional leader that he is. Trading him away would not be a good look. If Boshisn't going to sign an extension, no point in the trade. Jose is a good PG, but he's not tough enough to be on the Rockets.

Great win tonight against the Knicks. Not back to normal yet for the Rockets, but it's a good start.
 
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