[Irony Department] Famous ClutchBBS thread revisited

We aggresively were hoping for Roy and we got screwed. I don't ever remember hearing that they'd trade us Roy for Luther.

...and Gibson? Please. Nobody knew who he was until last week.

You can live your life fretting over the players you passed in the draft ...or you can move on. Nobody knows who will make it in the NBA ...otherwise if you had one all-seeing GM out there, they'd be champs every single year.

Every year there are great plays picked 20+ in the draft. So every year, there you dozens of "stupid" GM's that passed up player X.

Here is a recent list of players with their draft position that the Rockets passed on:

2006: Gibson picked #42
2005: Nate Robinson #21
2004: Kevin Martin #26
2003: Mo Williams #42, Josh Howard #29, Barbosa #28, Boris Diaw #21
2002: Carlos Boozer, #35, Tayshon Price #23
2001: Gilbert Arenas #31, Tony Parker #28, Zach Randolph #19

Oh, and one more. Michael Jordan.

For every ONE of the players on this list are 10 more picked lower that are crap players. Nobody knows until a few years go by.


Lets not play the coulda woulda game. It's a never ending game that gets boring really fast.

 

Speak for yourself.

 

Gibson was picked 42. So virtually EVERY GM passed on him at least once and 10 GM's passed on him TWICE.

So I'll speak on behalf of NBA GM's since they clearly didn't think too highly of him ...before now.

 

If Yao and Tmac don't get trade kickers, why would Mike James?

 

Thank you.

I'm tired of everybody giving the Rockets crap about the trade kicker. James simply came up w/ the trade kicker idea at 11:30pm before the midnight deadline as an easy excuse for him to make us look like bad guys. It worked.

 

daniel gibson...the guy has 2 or 3 good games and everyone is all over him...call me during the regular season...

 

yeah honestly, we usually see someone do this every season, remember when Flip Murray went on a scoring rampage and averaged like 30 ppg for a few weeks? Now he's a benchie for the Pistons

 

trade kickers really aren't neccesary in max contract situations I believe.

 

It gets better. How about when Austin Croshere looked like the greatest thing since sliced bread in the playoffs? Then he got his huge contract, and the rest is history.

How about Moochie Norris's formerly inspired play? How about Bonzi's otherworldliness in the playoffs?

I'm sure Gibson is a fine player, but people are acting like we'd be in the finals right now if only we'd drafted him. I don't believe that. Not yet. The guy has a lot to prove... anyone can get hot for a period of time. ESPECIALLY when he's got the entire opposition guarding Lebron instead of him.

 

We got Hakeem. No complaints here. BTW, I DO wish that whole Ralph Sampson for Clyde Drexler and the #2 pick in the 1985 Draft thing had happened. That would've been wonderful.

John Lucas
Michael Jordan
Clyde Drexler
Hakeem Olajuwon

We could've beaten ANYONE. Not to mention that we probably could've pulled something like Drexler for Barkley (as much as I live Clyde). That would've given the Rockets Lucas, Jordan, McCray, Barkley, Olajuwon for a starting 5. That wouldn't have been too shabby. You know, only a 10-12 year dynasty there. Nothing that good.

But you're right. Playing the coulda-woulda-shoulda game doesn't help here. And the Rockets were in perfect position to land all of these players. Every single freakin' one of 'em. But hindsight is always 20/20.

 

Darn. I didn't think to add this until now, but Morgan Ensberg had one REALLY good season. I mean DARN good. Who's singing his praises now?

 

I'm not giving a link but Gibson came out early and was linked to the Rockets last year as I recall. There was some speculation that he might be drafted by the Rockets. I think he would have sat on the bench and wilted with zero playing time in Houston though.

BTW...anyone that watches Longhorn Sports new who Daniel Gibson was in college.

 

No point in re-evaluating past drafts, it's such a crap shoot (even at #1, historically) and all you can do is make the best decision at the time. I think it's similar to just getting what's 'best on paper' because there's no telling how a rookie will perform when he gets thrown into the deep end.

 

LoL one good game and he is THE GEM in the second round
Would u call Donyell Marshall the 2nd Reggie Miller because he holds the record for most 3-pointers made in a game (along with Kobe Bryant)?

 

Wasn't Gibson projected in the lottery after his freshman season?

 

....in other words:

RNuss02, 11-15-05

 

I think what is disturbing is that outside of Yao (no-brainer), we haven't made a decent draft pick since Sam Cassell.

Think about that.

 

I'd say the Mobley pick was a pretty good one for a 2nd rounder. But outside of that, yeah our drafts have been crap.