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Originally Posted by dalmations202
Why an athletic three? Why not use McGrady as the athletic three, and get a pure shooter for the SG. Then you can play the inside/out with Yao/SG with a pentrating/defensive PG, and use McGrady offside for cutting/slashing. Then Swift becomes a useful offside pick/inside finisher. You could also utilize Yao in the high/low game with his skills with the SG spotted up, and Swift/McGrady cutting/slashing.
IMO, they need a defensive minded PG who can penetrate, and a defensive minded SG who can shoot the three efficiently. Of course depth at all the positions would be nice as well.
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Good post, what Houston needs is a PG with footspeed and lateral quickness who can also take some of the rock-handling pressure off of T-Mac (Rafer was supposed to fit that mold but his injury has made it difficult to gauge his effectiveness, though his ability to create has been disappointing thus far). The Rockets would be absolutely disgusting if they could find themselves a spot-up shooter, a la Redd, Allen (pipe-dream I know) - with Yao commanding double-teams in the post and a shooter just hanging around the perimeter, T-Mac would have all the room he needed to just be T-Mac. Swift has been a big disappointment, hopefully he will pick it up - one of the knocks against him is he's too skinny to be effective at the PF so he needs to pack on some weight, help take some of the post-defense pressure off of Yao and be able to bang around and grab 9-10 rebounds a night. Yao's taken huge strides in that direction but think how much easier Shaq's job would have been had he had the luxury of a Carlos Boozer/(insert banger here)-like player alongside him his whole career (instead of...Medvedenko?).