Keeping wood was a bigger mistake than signing theis

Tank commander Wood?

 

At least he’s the best Tank commander money can buy.

The bad part is when he’s on the floor it might as well be 1 on 5 on offense and 4 on 5 on defense. I can’t think of a player that is more detrimental to helping develop young players by playing with them.

 

Agreed

 

tate only fan, i see tru your act!

 

The real commander cannot even get 1 minute of playing time.

 

Everything about the way that he plays is detrimental to the concept of winning games, and the worse part is most of it doesn't show up in the box score.

He's got a very poor attitude, despite being on 6 teams in 6 seasons, and he already has 2 quitting incidences this season. He frequently switches to the perimeter, leaving our guards to guard bigs and contest against bigs. He doesn't hustle on rebounds, which is somewhat evident with his very high uncontested rebounding % (he has the 3rd lowest contested rebounding rate among players with at least 10 rebounds). He's a black hole on offense (on this team, he has the most front court touches, and 2nd most overall touches) , and insists on dribbling the ball up himself.

However, you look at the box score and realize that he has 12/9/4 on 56% shooting in 27 minutes, and you're genuinely confused because the way he played on court was clearly detrimental to the team.

This is exactly why the Rockets have a serious issue with distribution of the offense, a guy who can play as poorly as Wood did against the Jazz will still walk away looking like the best player on paper simply because has far more touches than anyone else, and so he has far more opportunities to fill up the stat sheet. I'm not sure if other FO picked up on this, because Wood is probably the first Rocket I have seen where his box score numbers are just not representative of his on-court play. If it's this obvious when you watch him play, I wouldn't be surprised if the Rockets aren't getting any decent offers for him since other GMs have done their homework.

 

the rock is holding on to his cards and being patient. especially after seeing his former master get hardon for his cancer. tillmen is great.

 

not really. Theiss was just a dumb signing to begin with, no doubt. There was no reason to sign him to some multi year deal for $35 mil. Especially knowing he's some 29 year old role player who needs stars to play with to be effective. The fact that the rockets had Jarrett Allen just a few months before makes it that more stupid, which they completely fumbled with him getting some sorry late bucks pick for a rising young C who obviously has more value now which was pretty apparent.

At least with wood, there was some kind of potential to see what he can turn out to be. Knowing now he isn't that type of player who can be your best player and win, you just realize it and move on while hes young enough to net you something. So instead of walking for nothing which he will he plays out through his last season, they do need to get rid of him before

 

The only logical reason I can think of is we weren’t getting decent offers before the deadline. So they try to be patient and revisit it in the offseason when better offers may present. At least that’s what I’m hoping for. I wish they’re not keeping him as a building block.

 

Nah, Wood just needs leadership and accountability.

DD

 

Wood was really good when he was playing with Harden, Wall, and even Oladipo in that short period. Wood is the type of personality that needs to know he's not the alpha. I think benching Wall was utterly stupid. Eventually Wall would still have gotten hurt, but it would have set a better role for Wood to play off of the lead guard in our sets instead of acting like he is Lebron James.

 

Hopefully KPJ and Green will Be able to take the leap that Francis and a monkey took their second year together.


That 2001 seals. Was one of the more pleasantly surprising I’ve had as a rockets fans if not the most. Francis and Mobley were both under 25 and carried the team to a highly competitive successful and barely missed out on the postseason in a tough west.

 

Maybe our asking price was too ambitious and other teams recognizing his true value, weren't willing to offer what we wanted.

 

How can anyone say keeping Wood was a mistake without knowing what the offers were?

 

Agreed. Wood had a bad game last night but keeping Thies over Wood....uh, NO! Wood is a PF/SF it's obvious. He needs to be paired with a mobile big.

Tate is too small and needs to come off the bench.

 

Lol autocorrect fails for the win. I've been a victim of autocorrect also.