I thought since we are not going to move Stromile Swift, and he will be getting even more minutes now that Yao is injured, we should have a thread to discuss his play from game to game. Also list your insights and comments on his play so far in the season.
IMO, he's been Passionless. That's the best way I can describe his play so far. He's never had a great game, but he's had a few decent ones. I'm very dissatisfied with him thus far, mostly defensively and on the glass. I can easily tolerate someone new to a team, not understanding the "new offense", or "knowing his role" and what's expected of him offensively. I cannot stomach someone refusing to rebound or guard a man that has the ball, and just give up layups
That's intolerable... what can I say about someone who has a vertical leap that he has, but is constantly out-fought for boards. I can only imagine if Yao or Dke had Stromile's athletic ability??? In Yao's case you'd have possibly the 'greatest center of all time' or the closet clone of Hakeem Olajowon ever! In Dke's case you'd have someone like Dwight Howard but 7'3", WOW.
You make the most of the skills you've got, he isn't doing that. He is habitually "unfocused" and is probably the worst weakside defender on the team. These are correctable errors, but it has been 20 + games now? He's had opportunities to show us his game....but always seems to fall short. It just may not be "
in him" to succeed on this team. Let's be honest, offensively he's pretty inept, unskilled, and immature at best. His Defensive play is what concerns me the most, he's terrible. He's too light-weight to defend anybody in the post, or for that matter to post up anyone. I think the Rockets are stuck with him, because they believe in him for some reason, though we have no proof that he will get better. There's evidence to the contrary that he even has the skills to do so. I do not want to believe this but Stro's not given us any reason to think he will improve, other than the "
he's still young...he's on a new team" excuse.
I hope I'm horribly wrong about him....
