[Stephen A. Smith] The Rockets' upper management are throwing games.

SAS could be right, I mean, I never seen a professional team shuffle their rotation like this before. One minute Harrell and KJ is playing meaningful minutes, then they're sent to the D-League. Dmo comes back playing 20 minutes and then he's only playing 6 minutes. Every last one of his rotations is very questionable.

I'm very disappointed

 

DMo doesn't play one minute in the Dallas game because of matchups. Come on now.

 

Smith was just talking out his ass. I don't think for one second that Morey or JBB have been tanking in any way. I think certain players may not want to make the playoffs and have started to go into shutdown mode.

Bu, there is no doubt that JBB has the craziest rotations in NBA history. He really has no rotation. He seems to try something different every quarter. I've never seen anything like it.

Smith is correct that firing McHale was a huge mistake. If Morey had someone like Thibodeaux ready to take over I could understand it. But, replacing McHale with JBB makes the entire Rockets organization look silly. I'm wondering if a top coaching candidate will want to come to Houston and work for an organization that fires coaches eleven games into the season.

 

Then it makes this whole mess even sadder that they were "trying" to "win" and failed miserably. Morey is unique in that he has a history of speaking candidly, but the last few months should make you wonder whether he really understands what he's doing based on the decisions made (or not made) and his canned "we'll turn the corner and make a deep playoff run" nonsense).

Is he capable of making the right moves this off season? Judging by the moves this past year, I'm not confident anymore. I can't see how this team can be tweaked into a legitimate competitor by next year.

 

Well it would make sense if they were tanking, it was too good a matchup so they benched him.

 

Tweaked huh, they're about to lose over 40% of their roster this offseason. Mainly their front court players in Dmo, Howard, Smith and Jones.

 

You really need to give that ACT up already. It's gotten very old around here.

 

SAS is a loudmouth that constantly talks outta his a**.

I give ZERO credibility to anything that comes outta his mouth.

The dude epitomizes everything wrong with 'journalism'....

 

Right, JBB.

Better to roll KJ McDaniel out there (the guy JBB didn't remember we have on the roster until he turned around and looked at the bench: "are you on my team?") than DMo against Dirk.

 

Did you ever see JBBs dad coach?

Speaking of random rotations... the apple does not fall far from the tree.

 

I'm not sure what you are talking about, I didn't say anything controversial even if you weren't able to follow along and realize that.

 

I think JBB sux, but that commentary is lame. Ariza was always going to mark Dirk, so KJ or DMo against a wing? Seems like one of the smarter things he has done all season.....

But then he went and played Brewer more minutes, so... oh dear.

 

The DMO act.

 

Ah, got it, you still are struggling with player evaluation. Well, I hope you get better one day, best of luck to you.

 

I want morey gone and i want les to sell the team. Im done with those 2 jackasses

 

SAS needs to give Houston some credit; we don't tank. We've been competitive all through the rebuilding process post Yao and TMac.

I think the simplest explanation is the right one. We are not as good as people think we are; JB is not ready to be head coach; and there are some chemistry problems with the team. Simple as that.

 

Tanking these last games . . . i might buy that
Tanking a whole season? Hell naw . .. WTF?
If they are . .. . . Seriously they doing it wrong

Rocket River

 

Sas is a complete idiot.

 

SAS wanted to dish a hot take as usual, and he did. Skip was the voice of reason, for the first time in his life. Five minutes of our lives have been wasted. And the world moves on!

 

How long have you been a Rockets fan? We did it to get Ralph and Dream.

DD