Honestly...i was wondering.. what did we do to deserve this?

[Rocketboi]

1. they say tmac is till about january, and we got past that with yao and ron ron.

2. yao went down, we still had a solid team, with ron ron ron as our leader and everyone playing a part.

3. ron ron becomes free agent, wafer free agent, and everyone is rejecting every offer we throw at them.

our offense is basically gone, and so is our defense....

i just want to ask...what did houston do to deserve this?

i mean i understand this happening to the bulls or the knicks for what they have done to their old legends.... but us? we've always treated our players with respect, and were such good fans and have great teams. but somehow we cant ever do anything because someone is always injured....can someone answer me, why us?

[REEKO_HTOWN]

I don't know. Not enough sacrifices?
Olajuwon has Rocket player Voodoo dolls.

Reverse the curse.

[Jeff Who]

I was wondering about the same thing. I don't know what it is, but God hates us. Maybe he is Utah Jazz fan... :rolleyes:

[El Toro]

it's the curse of Calvin Murphy

[dragonz]

The city of Houston dig up too much petro, The mother of earth punished us.

[Rocketman95]

it all started with clyde drexler and his ****-eating grin after we lost to the jazz in 1998.

[Rocketboi]

I was wondering about the same thing. I don't know what it is, but God hates us. Maybe he is Utah Jazz fan... :rolleyes:

hahaha
i totally agree with you..

[GATER]

....

i just want to ask...what did houston do to deserve this?

....

Why is "random chance" such a difficult concept? Only a handful of lucky people go to Vegas and come out ahead.

The pendulum of luck swings both ways. It was luck that Danny Ferry passed on Scola and he fell into the Rockets' laps. It was "luck" that they got Artest in the first place. It was "luck" that the ping-pong balls took them from the 4th likely to the #1 Lottery pick for Yao.

It is baffling to me why so many here have the "woe is us" mindset. There's a HUGE element of good and bad luck along any NBA pathway.

[Thefabman]

id have to go with trading olajuwon

[jwayne]

No No No... First off, Yao and Tracy cant help injuries. I mean you cannot deny the talent these guys have. Who wouldnt take these guys healthy? It just so happens, we have them, they are battling significant injuries. It is the luck of the draw. I mean it could just as easily be the Lakers with this dude named Kobe Bryant who has amazing ability BUT he cant stay healthy... same with Lebron, yadda yadda yadd... It just is the case, they are healthy.

Tough luck...

In the case of Ron Artest, I love Ron. I think he is a neat guy... He has a cool personality and plays hard though, he has lost a step. He is not so exlposive anymore. I do not believe Ron is a guy you can necessarily build around. He is a 2nd or 3rd star type. With that said, Tracy is not the old Tracy and may never play for us again and Yao is injured and his status is up in the air. Yao is locked up for a year and he has a player option. Tracy, he and his $23 million are off the books this year. If we commit $30 -$40 million to Ron, we are not sitting as pretty next year to at least try and make a run at a legitimate star.

I believe Gortat is a good, athletic, big man we should lock up due to Yao's current status. If we give him $30 million or a lil more over 5-6 years and he turns out to be more than we thought, in NBA dollars, that is a steal. We then can add a huge piece next off season to go alonog with a very young core of players in Brooks, Lowry, Landry, Scola, Taylor, etc...

Just my thoughts... Im not in panic mode at all. I can see Morey and the Rockets strategy here...

[heyangw]

1. they say tmac is till about january, and we got past that with yao and ron ron.

2. yao went down, we still had a solid team, with ron ron ron as our leader and everyone playing a part.

3. ron ron becomes free agent, wafer free agent, and everyone is rejecting every offer we throw at them.

our offense is basically gone, and so is our defense....

i just want to ask...what did houston do to deserve this?

i mean i understand this happening to the bulls or the knicks for what they have done to their old legends.... but us? we've always treated our players with respect, and were such good fans and have great teams. but somehow we cant ever do anything because someone is always injured....can someone answer me, why us?

Really? Sorry, I did not see this at least here.

[Mr Chuck Norris]

we've always treated our players with respect


McGrady Disagrees...... Excuse me, I meant "Stacy McLady" :rolleyes:

[HowsMyDriving]

we've always treated our players with respect


McGrady Disagrees...... Excuse me, I meant "Stacy McLady" :rolleyes:

we've always treated the players that actually deserve respect, with respect.

[Rocketboi]

No No No... First off, Yao and Tracy cant help injuries. I mean you cannot deny the talent these guys have. Who wouldnt take these guys healthy? It just so happens, we have them, they are battling significant injuries. It is the luck of the draw. I mean it could just as easily be the Lakers with this dude named Kobe Bryant who has amazing ability BUT he cant stay healthy... same with Lebron, yadda yadda yadd... It just is the case, they are healthy.

Tough luck...

In the case of Ron Artest, I love Ron. I think he is a neat guy... He has a cool personality and plays hard though, he has lost a step. He is not so exlposive anymore. I do not believe Ron is a guy you can necessarily build around. He is a 2nd or 3rd star type. With that said, Tracy is not the old Tracy and may never play for us again and Yao is injured and his status is up in the air. Yao is locked up for a year and he has a player option. Tracy, he and his $23 million are off the books this year. If we commit $30 -$40 million to Ron, we are not sitting as pretty next year to at least try and make a run at a legitimate star.

I believe Gortat is a good, athletic, big man we should lock up due to Yao's current status. If we give him $30 million or a lil more over 5-6 years and he turns out to be more than we thought, in NBA dollars, that is a steal. We then can add a huge piece next off season to go alonog with a very young core of players in Brooks, Lowry, Landry, Scola, Taylor, etc...

Just my thoughts... Im not in panic mode at all. I can see Morey and the Rockets strategy here....

thats why we have been been plagued by injuries even since 95' when hakeem was playing. its always been like that. ever since our championship seasons... we have been coursed...

[Mr Chuck Norris]

we've always treated the players that actually deserve respect, with respect.
Sure....

[rockbox]

When we let Dream go to Toronto. The curse was on.

[conquistador#11]

Indian burrial ground under toyota center.

[Rocketboi]

When we let Dream go to Toronto. The curse was on.

but he said he didnt want to play for us anymore.... we didnt want too. he chose too.

[engr chris]

When we let Dream go to Toronto. The curse was on.


Im about to post the same thing.

[hokage5]

When we drafted Yao anyone who knows sports knew he would probably have injury problems. But I agree it is a bit of bad luck that they are this bad.

09/10 will be an off year, but I think well be extremely aggressive in the 2010 free agent class. 20M from T-Mac, 8 Million from Ron's contract, and maybe 15 Million from Yao's...that's a hell of a lot of money to use on free agents.

Hopefully we can get D-Wade for 25M a year and Bosh for 15M a year?

[jevon3012]

Some children are so spoiled. In the last 30 years, we've made the playoffs 23 times, made at least the second round 10 times, made the finals 4 times, won the championship 2 times. Go check the stats on the Clippers.

[jwayne]

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thats why we have been been plagued by injuries even since 95' when hakeem was playing. its always been like that. ever since our championship seasons... we have been coursed...

Well, if you believe in "curses"... I happen to not believe those exist, they are under us. Jus sayin...

[SamFisher]

The writing was on the wall about Yao and Tracy's injury history before this season - I blame Leslie in part for refusing to entertain the possibility that either was not untouchable.

Like i said a few years ago, the fact that we had to preface all evaluations of the rockets with the phrase "When healthy..." casts severe doubt on whatever statement follows as, invariably, they are frequently not. Morey knew this.

[Invisible Fan]

it all started with clyde drexler and his ****-eating grin after we lost to the jazz in 1998.

I though that curse was settled with Barkley's career ending injury and twice paid over with his mug broadcasting home games.

Just shows you how long he keeps grudges. UH basketball is DOOMED.

[ThaShark316_28]

Some children are so spoiled. In the last 30 years, we've made the playoffs 23 times, made at least the second round 10 times, made the finals 4 times, won the championship 2 times. Go check the stats on the Clippers.

close the ****ing thread...AWESOME post...

LOL @ "what did we do to deserve this"

We aint the ****in 2000-2008 Hawks...nor are we the 1990-1998 Kings...besides...who said anything about giving up on the upcoming season..yall can do it...me and a few others wont....

Hell we all knew it was a chance that Yao would be banged up at points in his career.

We knew Artest might not come back.

We knew T-mac having microfracture surgery was going to take time to heal.

This "sky is falling" bs is what should have been said in the "overused terms in the GARM" thread...

"OMG CURSED"

"FML"

etc etc.

stop it.

[bjshot]

1. they say tmac is till about january, and we got past that with yao and ron ron.

2. yao went down, we still had a solid team, with ron ron ron as our leader and everyone playing a part.

3. ron ron becomes free agent, wafer free agent, and everyone is rejecting every offer we throw at them.

our offense is basically gone, and so is our defense....

i just want to ask...what did houston do to deserve this?

i mean i understand this happening to the bulls or the knicks for what they have done to their old legends.... but us? we've always treated our players with respect, and were such good fans and have great teams. but somehow we cant ever do anything because someone is always injured....can someone answer me, why us?

Because Houston's fans are bandwagon jumpers. :(

[SamFisher]

Hell we all knew it was a chance that Yao would be banged up at points in his career.

We knew Artest might not come back.

We knew T-mac having microfracture surgery was going to take time to heal.

This "sky is falling" bs is what should have been said in the "overused terms in the GARM" thread...

"OMG CURSED"

"FML"

etc etc.

stop it.

I don't think anybody expected all three of those things to happen simultaneously, with two of them in less than a week.

As it stands, we went from a 55+ win title contender that came within a whisker of knocking off the champs, to a 35 win also ran-caliber roster in the span of about 5 days.

So the reality is that the sky is a lot closer to the ground than it was this time last week - hence the frantic attempts to shed depth for Rubio by Morey.

[Yao4REAL]

It's called the "McLazy Disease."

[Shaud]

A member from Clutchfans slept with the basketball God wife.

[orbb]

The writing was on the wall about Yao and Tracy's injury history before this season - I blame Leslie in part for refusing to entertain the possibility that either was not untouchabl

Cant blame Les... the possibilities were just too good not to be a homer :(

[fallenphoenix]

I was wondering about the same thing. I don't know what it is, but God hates us. Maybe he is Utah Jazz fan... :rolleyes:

Maybe Mormon is the right religion after all hahaha

just kidding...

[MadMax]

A member from Clutchfans slept with the basketball God wife.


sorry

http://thumbnails.hulu.com/13/908/62056_145x80_generated__uLeb-882bUaS9IofVSGg-w.jpg

[Gummi Clutch]

We can start with...
We have the two most brittle Super Stars on the same team.

[Seth]

A wise men would say, "Sign injury prone players to very long and expensive contracts" that´s what "we did" to deserve this.

Not to say that we didn´t have a single winner on our team until we sign Scola, we always have a bunch of wanabes that never acomplished what was expected.

Right now, i feel that we will have to think as if Yao and McGrady doesn´t exist and our salary cap is at 40 millions. I will support the rest of the team, but i don´t want any of those two resigned.

Look at SA, many want Manu out and he delivered 3 championships there, and a very thought mentality, and because he had problem 2 seasons he is being considered to left behind. Some here still have the hope that McGrady and Yao "will sat healthy". Be real.

[Easy]

because we signed this guy
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1102967/photo_10_hires.jpg

instead of this guy
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1102967/photo_09_hires.jpg

[y2Joem]

wow, no one is blaming Scottie Pippen yet...

[TreP3]

Well, if there is some sort of curse, we can reverse it. Someone give Adelman Rudy T's lucky tie...and a Taco Cabana cup with a mystery beverage (see: alcohol) in it.

[BMoney]

People need to stop whining. You could live in the Congo. This is just sports.

[Aruba77]

If we're playing the blame game ... I'm going to go with all that "predatory" talk. Guess we jinxd ourselves. ;)

[dakeem1]

Everyone thinks we have bad luck because th eRockets have had great lineups recently and couldn't get anywhere due to injuries.

You cna't help injuries, which is why it's considered luck. The Rockets organisation has done everything right to create a champion, but it just hasn't worked out for us.
ie. LUCK

[chasingu]

be optimistic, man :cool: