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Reggie Williams Won’t See Floor Much for Houston Rockets

August 5, 2013 9:01 pm EDT by

Reggie Williams Rockets

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The Houston Rockets automatically come out of 2013 NBA Free Agency boasting one of the best hauls simply because they landed the biggest name on the open market and the best center in the NBA in Dwight Howard. However, outside of Dwight they haven’t had that great of a haul in free agency this off-season.

The Rockets brought in another center in the aging veteran Marcus Camby which seems more about Camby chasing a ring more than anything. Among other moves, another puzzling move that Houston made this summer was to bring in four-year veteran shooting guard Reggie Williams, formerly of the Charlotte Bobcats.

Williams spent the last two seasons in Charlotte and the two seasons prior to that with the Golden State Warriors. In 177 career games he has averaged 8.6 points, 1.6 assists and 2.7 rebounds per game. He’s also shot 46 percent from the field and 37.1 percent from three. However, those numbers are greatly influenced by the 104 games he spent with the Warriors, which now seem like an anomaly after not being able to do much for the Bobcats in the past two seasons.

Williams looked like a potential outside-shooting threat when he came into the league, but after shooting just 30.7 percent from three over the past two years with Charlotte, it’s hard to know what to make of Williams as a player in this league.

One thing that is for certain about Williams, though, is that he won’t see the floor much. Barring injuries, James Harden and Francisco Garcia are firmly ahead of Williams on the depth chart. If Williams sees the floor much at all for the Rockets outside of garbage-time, I’d be floored.

Cody Williams is a Senior Writer with Rant Sports. Follow Cody on Twitter @TheSizzle20, add him on Google+ and like his Facebook page.


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  • Jah

    That’s the knock against Morey. I don’t understand how he pick up guys like Reggie Williams and Omri Casspi when there were better players to be had before they were taken by other teams. Instead of Reggie and Omri, I fail to understand why Morey didn’t reach out to someone like Korver???

    That’s the thing with Morey, he get a good talent like Harden and Howard and then follow that up with a questionable acquisition that makes no sense. I learned he could have had LaMarcus Aldridge for Asik and Parsons, some fillers and a pick and didn’t do it. Portland then move on and traded for Robin Lopez.

    That was absolutely mind-boggling how Morey botched that deal. If you think about it, Morey could have packaged T. Robinson, Asik, Parsons, fillers and a pick for Aldridge. Instead, he settled for two inferior international prospects to stash over season for T-Rob. I’m just speechless. Smh. And that trade would have had no affect on us getting Dwight Howard because Howard signed with the Rockets as an Unrestriced Free Agent.

    And with Marcus Camby signing, we could afford to let go Asik. It wouldn’t look good because Asik is a double-double machine but for a chance to get a caliber All-star like Aldridge, is just stunning how Morey handled that.

    If the goal was to spend into the luxury tax like Alexander said he would, why didn’t they get a 3rd Max player?? While we got a good starting 5, we still short a quality PF and was in great position to address that need with LMA.

    I think Morey just scored with a big fish in Howard and sat on his ass wasting time gloating about it.

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