[SR610] Blinebury: "I'm still bitter about the Chron firing me, I hate Houston"

But the Rockets FO have nothing to rebute him.

The results speak for Blinebury.

 

Does he actually say what you quoted him as saying in the thread title, or are you just putting words in his mouth?

 

Overly critical? Alexander deserves more criticism than he's getting now.

 

Les deserves a lot more criticism for not spending enough money to build a better team instead of blaming everything on coaches.

In 10 years Yao Era, he made more money than most of the owners but only went over lux tax once by about 2 mill, which is nothing compare to the insurance money he got from injuries. Instead of getting more talent, he decides to let coaches be the scapegoats. Yet many fans still claim he's one of the better owners in NBA. What a joke.

 

What has the FO done to prove him wrong?

Nothing.

 

what has the FO done to prove him wrong?

....ummm how about nothing - but then again they don't HAVE to - its not his opinions that are wrong

IT IS HIS FACTS

his article today was on-right WRONG on many of his assertions to support his arguements.

 

Blinebury isn't the only one bashing Rocket Management on this decision.

 

Who cares what Blinebury thinks?

C'mon you guys, players comes and go, coaches comes and go. We support the team.

We said we wanted to move on from the Yao era. So we are. Did we think it would happen overnight?

Nahh, we will suck for a while especially with a front office that carefully calculates its moves and does its best not to get stuck with bad contracts.

Did we think superstars of the caliber to replace Yao and TMac would come through the door? We did and even DM did for a while. But we were overtaken by the superteams, so scratch that strategy.

We will try to build primarily through the draft and by developing young players. DM is not yet done tinkering with the team. We want a championship-caliber team; we don't have that yet.

He also is feeling the heat from Les, from the media and the league. So of all people, we Rockets fans should be supportive even if we don't agree 100%.

 

That guy was a bitter bag of piss and vinegar when he was employed by the Chronicle.

 

Only thing that's changed is that he's not employed by the Chronicle anymore....

By the way here's the actual link to Fran's ranting and raving.

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/19/blinebury-torches-rockets-management/

 

I think you're getting a little off-track... Yao hasn't gone anywhere, yet.

 

LOL. You are making **** up.

Exaggerated or not, you don't know it， I don't know it. But just look at the fact:

Look at Rockets franchise value before Yao and after Yao era, look at the ads in Toyota Center which has CHINESE on it, look at how much investment Les has in China, look at how other teams suffered during the down turn with Rockets being one of the very few exemptions, and look at the insurance money Lex got from Tmac/Yao injuries, don't you think that is enough for Les to be over Lux Tax consistently if he really wants to win that badly?

Now this is a bigger crap.

Do you have any idea how salary is conted? Over lux threshold means over lux threshold at the end of the season, not before the season. Rocket have never been over lux taxline at the end of season until this year, and it's only about 2 mil.

Are you going to call 30 bench players and role players " more talent"? With many of them making league minium. The constant here is: Almost every player they got is cheap. It implies Les is a cheap owner, cheaper than most of you people think.

Can you count? Rudy T, JVG, Adleman, possibly 3 HOFers only counted as 2?

None of the thress left on a good note.

What? Again how long have you followed Rockets? We have been in a "win now" mode for quite some years, and Les never supported the team with enough money to go over the lux tax and get better players in general.

Good players require money, you can only have that much talent if you don't pay them enough, even if the GM is Morey.

This is the only part which makes sense in your post. But without an owner who's willing to spend, bouncing back is going to be tough. Tank might be easier.

RA may or may not be the future, but it has nothing to do with the fact that Les is not that good an owner, He's cheap.

 

This is one of the more ignorant posts I've ever read on the board. Who has been coaches during Alexander's tenure as owner? Rudy T! JVG! Rick Adelman! LOL do you think coaches like those come cheap?

Many fans say he is one of the better owners because he spends a lot of money on improving team performance, he just doesn't spend it on the luxury tax, which if you don't know END UP MAKING EVERYONE ELSE RICHER. He spent a lot of cash to hire Morey, then he spent even more to buy equipment for DM's moreyball. He also spent money on draft picks, which is something even guys like Cuban don't do. In fact, the season before last he spent 9M on picks and David Andersen. That's your cheapskate owner? Obviously you have no idea how real tightwads operate.

 

Also there no correlation between spending the luxury tax and winning titles. Dallas had been one of the biggest lux tax payer and they have no rings to show for it. Ditto for NY and Blazers. The cavs also paid a lot of money in the tax threshold. Fact is, going over the cap limits your flexibility, and you only do it if your core is place like the Celts and the Lakers. Calling him cheap for not paying the tax makes no sense, unless you think DOlan is the best owner in the world.

 

wholeheartedly agree, morey is a factor, but nowhere to the extent of les.

He's proven this nonsense with 3 coaches ina row.

 

I doubt the other writers would gain inside privildges if they did.

I take some of what he says as sort of unbiased in terms of the writers here in houston, regarding his bias, its towards the chron, not the rockets.