If you have a choice, would you rather be : A. we will beat Portland in the first round convincingly and lose to the Spurs in the second rounds for a tough 3-4 series. Then Morey/Les decide we are in good shape, resign McHale for 3 more years, keep both Asik and Lin for their last year of the contract and just do some minor adjustments on the bench. OR B. we got blown out by Portland and lost 1-4 in the first round. McHale got fired, Morey will get rid of both Asik and Lin and looking for a major change on our roster again other than Harden and Howard. So, do you prefer a first round playoff win but could come with some disastrous decisions for the organization down the road? Or just suffer the pain now and hope for a better future?
Not even comparable. It should be the kubiak experience. When it come to lin no matter how the playoffs turn out he needs to be gone he is just a liability.
Morey always looks to improve the team. He won't accept in victory what he wouldn't accept in defeat.
This is dumb. The NBA playoffs are a legit way to judge a team's worthiness to be a champion. In the NFL all a team needs is to be hot going in to win a SB. There are no series. The Rockets winning a first round in 5 years in one hell of an accomplishment especially for one of the youngest teams in the NBA. Did the Thunder change their ways after losing to the Lakers in their first playoff run? The Texans were full of veteran players. Morey knows this team isn't a championship contender this year. He's said it many times. His goal for this year was securing HCA and getting out of the first round. If we get swept in the first round then yes it would be a Texansesk collapse.
Yes. All Houston fans should pray that Lin goes off, a la Linsanity, and the Rockets win the championship. That way, he'll actually be tradable in the off-season and we can all finally be rid of him.
Firing a coach will be less harmful and an easier decision to make then getting/keeping certain players. Especially in the leagues when you will have cap. You can recover from a bad coach signing much faster than a bad big contract for the player, also don't forget the fact that an NFL coach is much more important than a NBA coach in terms of their role and affects on the games.
I think you're missing the real point of the OP. The implied question is, would it be preferable to lose badly in the first round so that we can have a good reason to fire the coach and get rid of our least favorite player?
Well, there are other options than just those. But, if these two options are the ONLY choices in your hypothetical scenario, I'd easily go for #2. Why? Because this team isn't good enough as it is to win a championship. Even with an extra year of experience. They just aren't good enough to win it all. They have some good players... but even their good players can be replaced with better players. They need to make some pretty big moves in order to reach the next level of being in true championship contention.
A nothing thing. This is the second playoff run for this Rockets team. It took Kubiak 6 years to make the playoffs. 5 with Schaub.
Who the hell is Shaub and Kubiak? Never heard of them before. I could care less for football and the over-rated Texans. The Rockets are real while the Texans are just hype. Get this crap off the GARM
You're right in that there are no series, but Seattle / SF / Denver were the three best teams in the NFL last season. Carolina was the only surprise "hot" team going into the playoffs (and SF beat them), and there was no surprise winner of the SB itself. I don't even know why the NFL thing came up - Schaub barely had anything to do with the OP.
You dont go and blow up a team after one playoff run with said team. As someone mentioned, did OKC change their ways after their first playoff run? no, they didnt. Everyone wants instant gratification these days, especially Houston Fans. Theyre so thirsty for a Chip. Just be patient. Make some tweaks here and there.
There is no comparison between the NFL and NBA playoff when the NBA is sending more than half of its team to the playoff every year and the cap issue is totally different in NFL also. You missed the point as this is not a comparison between the Rockets and the Texans, but rather what should the Rockets do if given a mediocre success in the playoff or just take the bad beat and keep building up your team again.
Schaub is mediocre but mediocre has value. He masked the Texan's issue and lead them to the playoff 2 years in a row and then Bob Mcnair believed we had a championship team in town and eventually gave Schaub a disastrous contract. Similar thing can be happened to the Rockets with the situation we are in.
You arent terribly familiar with the NBA are ya? When you put together a team this young with so many new parts, you dont expect lots of success the first year. Morey knows this as do most long term NBA fans. He went and got his centerpieces(Dwight and Harden) and put a bunch of really young guys around them. No matter what round they go out in this year, you can rest assured that if Morey can find someone better than we currently have, he will replace current players....but I suspect he would rather TJ, Chandler, Bev, and Dmo just improve so he can keep them at their current low paying contracts. Anyway, long story short....I would not expect to see a mass replacement of players as we have seen in past years. Morey did that to build the team, now it has its foundation he is looking for parts to shore it up and make it stronger. btw....you are tryin too hard to be cute....the title does not easily say what this is about to most Rockets fans.
There are no similarities here. Schaub was signed to be the star of the team. The Rockets's stars and max contracts now are Dwight and Harden. You are reaching and comparing apples to oranges.
What exactly is disastrous about the way this team is constructed? Asik is absolutely a starting center in the NBA, and we have the luxury of having him as a back-up to one of the best centers in the league. Also, this team, as constructed, made the playoffs last year. They then went out and made substantial improvements to the roster which have had a tremendous impact on the team's ceiling. Stop trying to make your horrible analogy fit. The two teams have completely different approaches to how they want to attain their goals.
And who says that McHale gets fired if we have a terrible series? Maybe if there is another failure next year but we could get swept this year and I see no reason he wouldn't be back next year.
