No I'm not talking about Kevin Martin. I love Kevin Martin and think he is the most efficient scorer in NBA history but I'm thinking of someone else. I'm talking about Terrence Williams.
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Him being a superstar, though, would be dependent on one thing...putting him in lineups where he's playing the point gaurd position.
6 foot 6, great speed, great passing abilities, lockdown defender, good mid-range shot, unbeleivable athleticism, good basketball IQ, good handles, good rebounder. If I could build the most dominating point gaurd in the NBA, that sounds about right.
Best Case Scenario- Offensively Terrence is unstoppable. Teams can't put their sg's on him because Kevin Martin would eat up pg's. Terrence will play alot like Russel Westbrook, getting to the rim and pulling up at will. He will boast LeBron James like numbers, with his passing and rebounding skills. Defensively our backcourt defense will improve tremendously. It will give Kevin Martin the option to gaurd the pg while Terrence can gaurd the 2 and even the 3.
Worst Case Scenario- This sounds biased since I'm presenting this idea, but with Williams game defensively not being porous and offensively not being turnover-prone, this can't really end up turning out bad.
Having so much depth and talent, it allows us to do alot of crazy stuff, and I'm sure Daryl Morey is aware of this. Last year he traded what was the most-improved player from last year and our starting small forward for a backup pg and a player that barely played 5 minutes for us. People that didn't know alot about the rockets thought this would be a hugedrop off in our offense. It actually imroved our offense because of how Kyle Lowry and Chase Budinger stepped up.
The reason I'm bringing that up is because we could trade away Luis Scola and Kyle Lowry and improve drastically with T-Will and Patterson doing a better job and getting better players.
Here's a scenario in the draft: We trade Kyle Lowry, Dragic, Luis Scola and our 2 picks in the first to Minnesota. From there we select Derrick Williams or Enes Kanter.
Lineup-Pg- T-Will and Lee
Sg- Kevin Martin and Lee
sf- Derrick Williams, Budinger
pf- Patterson, Hill
C- Hayes, Thabeet
OR
Lineup-Pg- T-Will and Lee
Sg- Kevin Martin and Lee
sf- Chase Budinger
pf- Patterson, Hill
C- Enes Kanter, Hayes
Scenario #2- We do a sign and trade in the offseason for Marc Gasol, Nene, or DeAndre Jordan by trading away Kyle Lowry and Scola
A young, athletic linup that looked like this would be unbeleivable.
Lineup-Pg- T-Will and Lee
Sg- Kevin Martin and Lee
sf- Chase Budinger
pf- Patterson, Hill
C- (One of those 3 centers), Hayes
Having so much depth and skill located in certain positions and not in some allows us to make trades and ultimately have addition by subtraction.
I think this is the direction that Houston should go in, please comment on how this scenario would fare with our future success.
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