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Originally Posted by DoubleJs07
This is funny....dude who wrote this called Luther Head an "impact" player...
gotta love the rumors...
Draft day is going to be crazy, and if the Houston Rockets and Washington Wizards have anything to say about it, it will be just a little bit crazier.
The rumor circulating this morning is that the Wizards are interested in an instant impact player who can help Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas win immediately. The Rockets have that type of player in Luther Head, who was labeled as "no longer untouchable" by the Rockets at the end of the season.
As for Houston, they had Courtney Lee in for a long session with everyone - and I mean everyone - in the front office so the team could get a good feel for who he is as a person. And Lee did not disappoint.
Assuming all goes as planned, and with so many picks in play to so many different places that's not a given, the Rockets will send their #25 and Head to the Wizards for the #18 pick. The thinking is that 18 will be high enough to get Lee, who is a lock to go to Orlando if he's still there at 22. The Wizards would then simply draft best available with the 25th.
It's a good move all around. We've been reporting for weeks that Lee is Houston's favorite in the draft.
Head gets a chance to prove himself with an organization that really needs a dead-eye three-point shooter to go with their Big Three. The Rockets get a player with tremendous upside who can score from anywhere on the court, and hope that he can be the player they envisioned Head would evolve into.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=9216
Luther is stuck in between positions, PG/SG. Doesn't have the ball handling/play making abilities to run point, and can't really create hisown shot or has the size to guard SG's.
What he can do though is shoot pretty good from behind the arc, spot up.
I don't see how he really helps the Wizards.
The reason why Luther was untouchable last year, was because he shot lights out from behind the arc. I think like 40-42%. Over a 100 3's. But thenagain, that was with a Yao on the blocks getting double teams..
He's been ghost the past two playoffs though, and I can see why the Rockets are trying to move him.
I doubt the Wizards bite though.
Edit: lnMyMind,