Can Dwight Howard Keep Omer Asik on the Bench

   Dwight Howard can’t be any happier in Houston,  the fans adore him, he has two hall of famers to tutor him, a second star in Harden and a very good backup in Asik.Regarding Asik, Howard said that Asik was a big piece to a championship .  Howard  unwittingly put himself in a tremendeus pressure by  signing with Rockets.  For the first time in his career, Howard is expendable.

   This writing doesn’t argue that Asik is as good as Howard, nope and with to Rocket coaching staff  focus on Howard, he won’t. It argues  that in the most likely scenario in which Howard and Asik will never be on the court together at the same time, Asik will unlikely  be limited to under 10 minutes per game. Howard shouldn’t take his playing time  for granted.

First,  people forgot how good asik is,He had stone hands ,but it didn’t stop him from racking up points last season he had 5 20+ games and played a defense that can strangle even the league’s  best centers.

Vs Chicago Bulls 20 points, 18 rebounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx7rnE5-rA

VS Miami Heat 15 points, 14 rebounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RGKD3kInkY

Omer Asik 3 blocks on Tim Duncan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZxypRIKVNc

   Second,with Howard locked at starting  spot, Asik has to face backups. Looking at  the depth chart, you can see some backups are rookies, other are washed up veterans.  Howard  being a better player is a meek point because Asik will face weaker opponents. While Howard  has his hands full of  Bogut, Jordan and Pekovic; Asik can have fun with O’neal, Hollins and Turiaf

   Third, last season  everytime  JamesHarden took  a day off, Asik suddenly became reliable offensive players. So Asik will be doing just fine with  weaker supporting casts.Below are  videos of two of three games, the other game was 21 points, 10 rebounds vs San Antonio Spurs on 10 December 2012.

Playoff game 4  vs thunder 17 points, 14 rebounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_mikBd8Ui4

Career night, vs Orlando Magic 22 points, 18 rebounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQplyRExVU

  Asik will earn his minutes, 15 minutes at the least. There wil be games where Howard have stalemate with opposing center, Asik will comes off the bench to break it and get his 25 minutes. 

   In the end,Rockets can  win in regular and playoff with either Howard or Asik and Kevin Mchale is a coach whose rotation is based on merit.For Rockets this a good thing, because when Howard starts to throw tantrum, he can do it on the bench.

Terrel Pyror Assesment

Can really throw the ball, although sometimes he  underthrow it. Judging from the fact that it he did it 3 times without an overthrow, it seems to me that the underthrow was  intentional and  not a result of inaccuracy.  Has an ability to throw an accurate pass while running.
The Raiders were plagued  by own mistakes. Pyror tripped by his own center in several plays and  a touchdown was erased because the receiver was out of bound before catching the pass. Could have more touchdowns.
Runs too much, The coach should trust him more and let him throw passes

Sacramento Kings’ opening game being broadcasted in India

I doubted the wisdom of doing it. It should not be forgotten that last year Kings were a horrible team, and eventhough Denver Nuggets lost several key players like Andre Iguodala, Corey brewer, Kosta Koufus and probably Danillo Gallinari. Ty Lawson, Kenneth Faried will keep Nuggets  a respectable opponents,especially if  ISO ball and Demarcus Cousins’ head case still plague Kings.   

If kings players played as awful as last year in  that game, it will disinterest indian viewers,  this will  ruin Ranadive plans  of capturing indian large market.  Yes kings’s game being broadcasted in India will open its people eyes to the game of basketball, but  it might not be the kings who will reap the benefit but winning teams like Miami Heat, Brooklyn Nets,  LA Clippers etc.

New York Giants’ predicament

Yes some players are injured,but the direst problem  lies in the mentality. Last year  the players were amazed by  RG3 dazzling speed and geaped tons of praise on him, this was a troubling sign that  should have been  addressed by the management.  Defensive players’s job  are to crush the opposing team’s offense, hunt heir QB  and inadvertantly hurt him in the process.

Preview: Sacramento Kings

Kings will improves  significantly but i doulbt they will  get to the playoffs
1.Last season Kings could stand toe to toe with  teams like Clippers, Nuggets, Lakers. they lost  alot of games, because  players often takes early shots instead of  distributing the ball to get open looks.A good coach can easily fix this problem
2.Demarcus Cousins is moody,  when  kings were winning games, Cousins will play very good  basketball. However after  a lost, Cousins will  be disinterested and didn't give his best in the next game.  If the franchise player continue to be like this, it's hard for the team to go to playoff

Preview: Houston Rockets

1. Can  Howard  be a leader?  Last season James Harden did his best matador impersonation. Omer Asik failed to rein Harden in and as consequence, lost his starting job. Howard has to persuade/ force Harden to play defense.
2.Besides drawing fouls, can Harden relies  on other thing to score. Last season, the majority of his points came from the charity stripes.Because in  playoff he will be guarded other stars and  his effectiveness will be reduced. Put Kevin Durant on him,  and it will be over,
3. Does Omer Asik  have a chip in his shoulder? If it does, watch out Dwight
4..I think  not having Omer Asik trained with Olajuwon is Rockets fron office's biggest blunder
a.His offense wont be as developed as  it would had he trained with Olajuwon
b.It was an opportunity to secure  omer asik's loyalty, because it would have been a good compensation.Moreover if asik had a post move, he wouldn't  have to worry about his next contract
c. Asik won't be good enough to be traded for star pf like Lamarcus Aldridge .

season preview: Chicago Bulls

1. Addition  of JJ Reddick and  Tony Snell will relieve the  pressure off Derrick Rose.  The presence  of other weapons  will prove to be most usefull against presence. Pacers play very physical defense abd last year they injured Carmello Anthony. . If Rose forces  he could get injured again.
2.How to adress Joakim Noah' injury risk. Bulls can borrow a page from Rocket's play book. Last year omer asik can took rest in blow out games.  So This year Bulls  should build substansial lead  so that Joakim  joakim's presence on court won't be neccessary. By adding  shooters in the wings, Bulls indirectly address joakim noah's minutes problems