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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I didn't get the Asik signing. You pay $8M per year for a guy who is terrible in pick and roll, and you bring him in to complement Lin... who is a pick and roll guy who loves to dish to his Center. I still don't like the combo of Lin and Harden -- like Melo and Stoudemire, to get production out of one, you have to neuter the other because they take up the same space.
If the Rockets wipe their hands clean of Asik and Lin, maybe you've got something. Right now, in Lin and Asik, you're paying $16M for two guys who I still think were shiny objects vs. being part of some kind of a long-term strategy. McHale did make it work a little bit with Harden and Lin, but let's be real... they don't belong on the floor with each other, and Asik doesn't belong on the floor with those guys either.
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what's wrong with signing place holders in the NBA?
Lin and Asik literally are keeping a seat warm, but at the same time they were more than enough to draw crowds in the last year, especially Lin. Asik is not some scrub either
you are talking about Rocket fans who had Louis Scola and Samuel Dalembert and other clowns before they signed Asik, people wanted to see a center with potential and a PG that covers their overseas market like Yao did. They generated money for that team last year in a city that has no business doing that in the NBA, so hats of to them for adopting a model to compete with the Miami Heat, Lakers, Knicks who just throw money around like it's candy corn