Rockets are not a good team according to an Aussie player

daywalker02 · Sep 7, 2023

It definitely is not on soccer level.

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I met them at this beach, it is called Zanpa beach. It is about 30 minutes from the hotel they were staying at which was the Hilton Okinawa Chatan resort. Supposed to be one of the better beaches in Okinawa. Although when they came it was low tide, so the water wasn't very deep. They tried to go swim in deeper water, but they were told to leave the area because of danger with jet skis towing banana boats and other things.

I was actually really surprised by the amount of basketball rings scattered around the isiand. A lot of beaches and parks had them. Main land Japan it is very rare to find a basketball ring. This has improved a little over the last few years due to the popularity of Basketball rising in Japan.
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Cosmonaut · Sep 7, 2023

daywalker02 said: ↑

It definitely is not on soccer level.

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Very easy to find Futsal courts to hire in Japan. Where as consumer basketball court hire, is very rare. Where I live, maybe there are about 4 or 5 that are reasonably priced serving the Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto area.

AroundTheWorld · Sep 7, 2023

A Japanese friend of mine moved to Okinawa. Maybe I should go visit him in 2 months.

Cosmonaut · Sep 7, 2023

AroundTheWorld said: ↑

A Japanese friend of mine moved to Okinawa. Maybe I should go visit him in 2 months.
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If you like beaches, snorkeling, eating, different cultures, sea life. Then it is a great place to go. November is still warm enough to swim a little, but maybe need a wetsuit.

VoR · Sep 8, 2023

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I live in Japan and I am Aussie. I managed to get some tickets to a couple of the Aussie games at the Fiba world cup, So I hopped on a plane with my 5 year old son and we went to Okinawa for a week of beach and basketball. The games we went to were Australia vs Germany and Australia vs Japan. I had decent seats and was able to provide my son with a really good experience of what professional basketball is like. The game against Japan was really awesome, crowd was so loud and going crazy for their team. My son now really wants to practice basketball.

Anyways, me and my son were at a beach and by chance half of the Aussie team rocked up. I had to look twice and even said to my son "are those Aussie players?" and he was like "yeahhhh" cause he recognized someone from the games he had watched.

(I won't be using names out of respect) So we followed them for a little and my son went up to one of them and said "hello" and he said hello back. So anyways this particular player is an NBA player. Even though he was half naked I politely asked if he could take a photo with my son and he said ok. This particular player was pretty chill, talked for a bit about various things while he was carefully walking on rocks barefoot(which I thought was a little careless). I let this player go and went to talk to another player who was all an NBA player, politely asked to take a picture with my son again, and he was ok. So I managed to get photos with 2 players.

So the Aussie players went for a bit of a swim then got out. I started talking to the first guy again about the NBA then I said I was a rockets supporter and asked what does he think of the team.

Right from the start he said its not a good team. I then said to him the Rockets now have a much more serious coach and now have Fred. He still said "it ain't a good team". I asked why? He then said "their are too many young guys that are trying to get theirs." I said "won't that change under a new coach?" He said "probably not" I asked about Jalen and he said "he is alright." I proceeded to ask a few other NBA questions and my son even chimed in with what does he think of Jamal Murray, as that's my sons favorite player. He rated him very highly. I then thanked him for his honesty and his time and bid him farewell.

I felt like in the end from the way he was talking, he just isn't a fan of the Rockets organization as a whole. Perhaps the last few years of being at the bottom and how things were being run has created a lot of negativity about the team around the league. Hopefully the new coach can turn things around.

Anyways in the end my son was ecstatic about meeting some of the Aussie players and I was pretty happy too. It was the cherry on top of what was a fantastic trip.
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So a guy who can't even play in the G-League doesn't like the Rockets. Fun read.

Cosmonaut · Sep 8, 2023

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So a guy who can't even play in the G-League doesn't like the Rockets. Fun read.
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A guy that has a contract with an NBA team.

Kevooooo · Sep 9, 2023

It was David andersen wasn’t it…

vince · Sep 9, 2023

Well that was a given by the fiasco they had last year.

They have a lot of talented players, but the chemistry on the team was simplistic and not synergistically precise. With all that talent, they had nice salad, but they need to make a broth soup.

If they can get all that talent to play like a team, the rockets will be very competitive. As fans we look with rose colored glasses and marvel at the individual talent, but let’s not forget the elite teams are made with parts that fit and aren’t necessarily just all star squads.

HROZ · Sep 9, 2023

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If it's the guy in the first photo

Only NBA players with light skin are
Joe Ingles
Jack White
Xavier Cooks
Dyson Daniels

He's pretty skinny I think the body shape looks like Xavier.

But he's right playing team ball is going to be hard with so many players concentrating on their next contract.

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