Along with some tough, physical players! Get these soft, "finesse" fairies off my Rockets. I want hard fouls. I want some dirty players that will do anything to win. I want a jackass, a knucklehead, but by god just give me some PASSION! Give me Kevin Garnett, Charles Oakley and Von Wafer. Give me Mutombo, Ron Artest and Carl Landry. Give me Rafer Alston... Daryl Morey has traded away the identity of this team. We were the toughest, most physical team in the league. NO ONE wanted to play us. Do you think players are scared of Aaron Brooks and Kevin Martin? Brad Miller? Chase Budinger? Yao Ming? Shane Battier? Kyle Lowry??? BRING BACK GUNDY. WE NEED TO GET OUR IDENTITY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to win 70 to 58, just like the old days. Screw the Princeton offense!
Stop going after mediocre coach and players, we had them too many. JVG was a bad coach. Rafer was not even an NBA player.
It's bad, but is not that bad....yet. I was real sad when Dream left; along we a few others, that is about it. I was real glad when JVG left, but I wasn't that thrilled when Adelman came. I think the Rockets could have done better, still do.
Can't really say I disagree with the OP. It seems like all of the toughness and grit of this team has melted away. And I certainly miss the detailed preparation JVG brought to every game, especially on the defensive end. Back in the day, JVG would call a timeout and bench all five starters simultaneously because they weren't giving enough effort. True story. I'm not saying that I'm turning on Adelman (I think he has earned his own credentials, even though he has done a pretty poor coaching job so far this season). It's just, one has to wonder -- with the type of detailed scouting and game analysis that Daryl Morey does, was firing Van Gundy the wrong move to make strategically? As I understand it, Morey's team does all this background work for every game and they hand it to the coaching staff, but they really don't do much with it since Adelman prefers to simply do what he feels like he should be doing. JVG on the other hand stressed preparation and would have been a perfect fit, his relative lack of offensive creativity notwithstanding. I also happen to be one of those weird people that would rather win 70-58 than 110-108. I like winning ugly games. They're beautiful to me. And if there's anything that the JVG years taught us, it is that anyone can play good defense, regardless of physical ability. You draft offense and you teach defense, as Jeff would say. At times Jeff had a squad consisting entirely of D-Leaguers and borderline benchwarmers, but they still defended well and stayed in games even if they couldn't score enough to win. These days we have so much offensive talent, and yet I'm so disinterested in the crappy product they're putting out there. Sigh...
what embarrasses me about the rockets sometimes is their flopping. the reason i hate the jazz so much is b/c they flop like crazy. we are slowly doing that. yes, i wouldn't mind bringing back that defensive mindset where defense rules. we have a better chance to win tat way than with this current strategy of out-scoring people.
