The Dream Shake: FanPosts

Iverson dilemma continues: When will it end?

2009-11-20T09:10:52Z

I think A.I still have enough talent on his sleeves despite his attitude problems that makes team owners think twice. Teams like N.Y and Miami, show interest on acquiring his services . Whom would you think among NBA teams can qualified to handle and embrace A.I despite his complicated personality? should it be N.J, N.Y? Miami? or Houston?or any other team?

There are so many disadvantages having him.. but i think one positive thing in his game is during crunch time, he is more willing to take the shot and he's the go to guy type of a player than can withstand the pressure esp. in a game closer situation..

What should A.I do and must not do for him to be able to embrace again not only by the team but also by the fans as well?

Battier vs Gay? Check this out

2009-11-19T23:45:43Z

Heres a story from John Schuhmann about Battier's defensive efficiency compared to all the other players. It also names houston as number 1 on a rankings based system at defending against top players such as Lebron, Wade, Melo and Kobe.

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/john_schuhmann/11/19/numbersgame.battier/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1

If you look to the bottom of it you can also see that Gay is rated as one of the worst one on one defenders according to these stats, which may indicate how much better the Battier trade was for the team.

NBA Power Rankings: Week #4

2009-11-19T14:52:57Z

Here are (some of) the Rockets Power Ranking positions...

ESPN has Houston ranked at number 11 (up from #12).

http://espn.go.com/nba/powerranking

Fox Sports also has Houston ranked at number 11 (also up from #12).

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/powerRankings

Do you believe that Houston is the 11th best team in the league?

Vote in the poll.

Pick either "Yes, they're the 11th best" or "No, they're better than 11th best" or "No, they're worse than 11th best".

Vote early and often...

Poll

Both ESPN & Fox Sports rank the Rockets as the 11th best NBA team this week. What do you think?

My New Rockets Blog

2009-11-19T08:27:06Z

Hey dreamshakers, I'm not posting this to take away traffic or readers from this site, because i like this blog a lot, but i figured it wouldn't be a problem if i posted a link to the rockets / nba related blog i have created at

5mansymphony.blogspot.com

come read and i encourage you to comment in order to guide future posts and what not. thanks. i have also created a link on it to very quickly bring you back here.

if you come and read the blog, please comment and follow it if you have a google account (such as a gmail account)

Pops Mensah-Bonsu cut!

2009-11-18T21:09:11Z

Toronto has claimed forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu off waivers from Houston and he is expected to be in uniform for the Raptors' game at Denver.

Forward Hedo Turkoglu has been ruled out for Tuesday night's game against the Nuggets with a sore left hip and will be replaced in the starting lineup by Antoine Wright, who's dealing with a sore left ankle.

Mensah-Bonsu played for the Raptors last season. He signed a free-agent deal with Houston on Sept. 3 and played a total of 12 minutes in four games before he was waived Friday.

So we now have an available roster spot. Obviously Dorsey and Tmac are on there way back to wearing uniforms.

But I guess they just had too much invested in the Dorsal to cut him, we may see an appearance in the coming weeks then if we get some blow outs..

Mutombo joins NBA as ambassador

2009-11-18T00:29:45Z

Hey everybody, ShehzadG420 here! I had to create a new username cause I tried to make a FanPost and I guess I hit post too many times and I got banned from The Dream Shake. If the mods checked their e-mails more frequently (cough), I wouldn't have had to create a new name but alls well that ends well. Onto my post:

The league announced Mutombo's hiring to the newly created position Tuesday, with commissioner David Stern calling the eight-time All-Star "one of sports' outstanding humanitarians."

As we all already know how badass Mutombo is, this should come as no surprise. But hooray for Mutombo anyway, all the great things he does for people all around the world should be celebrated and this new positition he's taken with the NBA suits him well.

The full story

Since Bright Side of the Sun got their preview up first...

2009-11-17T23:24:14Z

I was checking out what BTOTS had to say about the Rockets/Suns game tonight, and in their preview they had this to say in their rundown of Scola:

The Rockets have very little depth at any position so taking Louis (sic) out of the game would spell instant trouble.

Is it just me, or is that the opposite of the Rockets' situation? I would actually venture to say that the Rockets' backups are pretty close in ability to the starters at every position. The "problem" that pretty much everyone has seen with Houston is that they have no star who stands out.

Even if you don't buy that Budinger and Andersen are close in value to Ariza/Battier and Hayes, I would say that the position where we have the least drop-off in ability is probably the Scola-Landry substitution.

Now, I don't want to see Scola in foul trouble early, but isn't the main (if not only) advantage of having a roster stuffed with interchangeable role players that something like foul trouble/injury affects us less?

I guess I'm just ticked because I'm tired of hearing the Rockets getting dismissed because they have no stars, and right when it looks like that might die down a bit I hear that we have no depth. Pretty soon we won't be able to win because our jerseys use only primary colours.

Rockets ranked 6th according to hollinger power rankings

2009-11-17T21:17:41Z

http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/powerrankings
I just thought its cool we're ranked high.

I'm starting to think that the rockets arnt just a scrappy little team.. they are genuinely talented.

its a deep team and if tmac comes back we are deep at pretty much every position except center and anderson looked pretty sharp last game. chuck hays has been a stud... we've shown we can score and our defense is returning to form...

hey these guys are pretty good

What will the Rockets look like in 2010?

2009-11-13T23:54:15Z

I would like to know what everyone's speculations are about the Rockets in 2010.

Seeing as how this season is beginning to be very exciting I believe we can make a statement for players around the NBA to start paying attention to the Houston Rockets as a potential Championship contender.

We already have a team of the most well rounded role players with great chemistry.

We also have the largest fanbase in China which brings all-star caliber players excellent opportunities to get large endorsement deals.

I believe that we will be keeping Yao Ming for a long time, most likely for the rest of his career as long as we can keep him interested in staying on this team by proving that we can be definite championship contenders.

As much as I am excited for T-Mac's return, he has a lot to prove to reach elite status once again and his performance this season may unfortunately hinder his chances at ending up back in the Houston line-up next season.

What do you think will happen to the Houston Rockets by next season?

Poll

Which of the following events is most likely to occur before the start of 2010 season?

Charles says the Rockets screwed him out of 3 mil

2009-11-13T19:16:24Z

Here is a link to Inside the NBA:

Start at the 21st minute

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Charles says that the Rockets screwed him out of three million dollars. He says that he was promised twelve million but only got nine million. We finally get the reason why Barkley is still bitter with the Rockets. He even goes far enough to call houston "your Rockets" when he's talking to Kenny. It was always really obvious from his commentary that he was against us. It might be old news but I just thought it was interesting to post.

Paging Rockets Fans in the Philippines : Solidify the Red Nation

2009-11-13T04:41:47Z

I know guys, there's a a lot of Filipino fans in this blog site who are dedicated and a die hard fan like me. By the way, i have an idea to put up a sort of groups or organization to help our Houston Rockets fan based expand all over our country. True enough we are a basketball lovin' country, and NBA is widely known here. We can start campaigning and invites other Filipinos to join the Houston Bandwagon.

To all interested parties , we can exchange email adds to create suggestions , ideas or plans to make this campaign successful... So lets start the ball rolling...

Let us paint our Country Red.. We love Houston Rockets!

Should T-Mac sit the bench at first?

2009-11-12T22:16:36Z

The last thing we need right now is an A.I. situation, where a declining superstar thinks he is undeservingly riding the pine while his team is out there stinking it up. But, that's the thing, the Rockets aren't sucking. I'm willing to say that right now we easily have one of the top 10, possibly higher, sets of team chemistry right now and everyone is benefitting from it: the starters, bench, rookies, and front office (gah I mean we're winning some games on a D-League salary). So, rather than having the whole team try to adapt to T-Mac's style of play, why don't we let him, for once, adapt to this team's style of play, packing on the points when we need him most. We don't want or need a superstar right now getting his 30 pts at the expense of a 14 for 40 effort, we need a guy who'll provide that shooting threat and create opportunities for that vast supply of untapped talent around him. Do you guys think T-Mac can make it in this system, add to it, or should we just cut our losses and trade him for a more well rounded team player and save some cash, while the winnings are up right now?

Poll

Which do you think will win us the most games?

Why Not the Rockets for Lebron?

2009-11-12T20:44:11Z

I keep hearing about places lebron will go. Clippers (with that owner?), Miami (D-Wade), Knicks (with that supporting cast?). So why am I not hearing Houston on that list?

We'll have cap space (Bye Tracy!), an all star center (Hello Yao), a great supporting cast (Battier, Lowry, Landry, Scola, Brooks, Hayes, etc), a top GM (Morey) and a city of 4 million people. Plus all the chinese endorsements he would get. And no state income tax.

So why SHOULDN"T he come play for the Rockets?

Stephen Jackson to the Rockets?

2009-11-12T16:16:03Z

Warriors coach Don Nelson has been quoted as saying...

... that the situation between the team & swingman Stephen Jackson is to the point where they need to trade him.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/warriors/ci_13768269?nclick_check=1

When I read this story today, I wondered how Rockets fans would feel if the team were to trade for him.

I've set up a poll question asking "Would you want the Rockets to trade for Stephen Jackson"?

The poll options are "Yes, I want Houston to trade for him", "No, I don't want Jackson on the team", or "No, I don't want him unless the trade clearly favors Houston".

Vote early and often...

Poll

Do you want the Rockets to trade for the Warriors Stephen Jackson?

Yes, I want Houston to trade for him

16 votes

No, I don't want Jackson on the team.

80 votes

No, I don't want him unless the trade clearly favors Houston.

82 votes

178 votes | Poll has closed

Another TMAC trade.

2009-11-12T02:28:34Z

I know most of you are thinking, ahh wow..... another non legitimate TMAC trade via fanpost. This time it is legitimate. I was talking to my cousin and he has a friend that is involved with all of the Houston sports teams trade rumors, FA signings, etc. The trade involving TMAC would be:

Toronto gets: TMAC, possibly battier or scola, not both though

Houston gets: Chris Bosh

When i heard this i was a believer due to us being one of the front runners for Bosh in the 2010 FA, and we only have the best GM in basketball and one of the best coaches in the last decade as well.

I'm all for this trade because Bosh doesn't have any chemistry issues from what I've heard. (as long as scola and TMAC go, not battier.)

Slight problem: We would have to trade Yao. I would rather have Bosh than Yao because Bosh is only 25 or 26 and is not injury prone like Yao is. Plus Bosh is just as good of a scorer, rebounder, post player as Yao. He also has a very good perimeter shot.

What do you guys think?

NBA Power Rankings: Week #3...

2009-11-11T23:15:46Z

Here's where ESPN and Fox Sports rank the Rockets this week:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/powerranking

The Rockets went up to #12 (from #17) according to ESPN!

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/powerRankings

But the Rockets ranking dropped on Fox (from #10) to #12.

Both ESPN & Fox say the Rockets are #12. Do you agree or not? Vote either "yes", or "no, they should be ranked higher" or "no, they should be ranked lower"...

Poll

The Rockets are ranked #12 by both Fox and ESPN. Do you agree with that ranking?

Yes.

41 votes

No, they should be ranked higher.

36 votes

No, they should be ranked lower.

5 votes

82 votes | Poll has closed

Chuck Hayes won't be an All-Star, but...

2009-11-11T17:51:28Z

But we can maybe make someone feel bad about leaving him off the ballot. You can write him in at nba.com or text his last name (they send you a follow up to see if you meant Chuck or Jarvis, I'll see if his full name works tomorrow) once a day to 69622.

It's a shame, too, since the West centers are pretty weak this year. The most talented ones on the list (Amar'e, Jefferson) are really combo PFs and they've even got some guys who haven't been starting (Camby and McDyess). Camby is especially egregious; at center he's behind and being consistently outplayed by Kaman, who is not on the ballot.

Poll: Who should replace David Andersen?

2009-11-11T04:25:49Z

David Andersen has been struggling to fit well into the Rockets game-plan. There are several players sitting on the bench not getting any minutes that should be getting more minutes on the court. We need all the help we can get from the limited talented players we have now. So who do you think should be getting more minutes coming off the bench for this Houston Rockets team?

Please answer using the poll below

Poll

Who should replace David Andersen?

We need more options: Pops & Taylor might be the answer

2009-11-11T04:17:49Z

Now we see how we suffered humiliating defeat from the Mavs., main reason: Limited options. Since we dont have any go to guy at this point, maybe we should use a 10 man rotation to include Pops and Taylor. We don't have any other option if a couple of guys having offnight just like in this game against Dallas. As much as we want Ariza, Chase and the guys to be cosistent every game, there are some nights like this when we need other guys to step up, that in the likes of Pops and Taylor. I think these two deserved a playing time since they have potentials skill wise. I bet they can step up and give quality minutes in our team.

ALL STAR BALLOT RELEASED

2009-11-11T00:02:45Z

From Yahoo Sports

We got:

* Aaron Brooks, Tracy McGrady (even though he's not playing and in the inactive list) as guards

* Trevor Ariza and Luis Scola

HOWEVER, we DO NOT have a CENTER listed!!!!!

There's no love for Chuck Hayes!

This is an OUTRAGE. How many minutes does David Andersen have to get to qualify?

Chuck is down-right dominating other centers in the list, Oden sucks!

-> My 2 cents and 75 words