HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! So, that's why Steve doesn't want Ming. Yeah Steve, Wilcox is going to help us start winning NOW(!!!), as you like to put it. He's seen as one of the biggest projects in the entire draft! I must admit that I think Wilcox can turn a non-running team into a running team, which is why I always had him in mind early on, thinking we were going to end up with the fifth or sixth pick. But we lucked out!!! So Steve just wants to have his Maryland buddy on the team, ay? And here I thought it was really about him wanting to win. I've always been a huge Steve supporter. I defended him the entire season, but now I'm losing more and more respect everyday. (by the way, this is assuming the excerpt above is true, which it very well may not be) I must say, the way Wilcox runs the floor is incredible...but I think saying he'll redefine the postion is going just a tad to far.
Williams? Williams who? Eventhough I haven't heard anything, I'm sure you could add Juan Dixon and Lonny Baxter to that list.
Bingo! DCkid. Francis’ credibility is dropping like a rock. This guy doesn’t deserve to be Rocket. Francis was afraid to come to Canada because he thought it would be too different for him. He complained that it rained too much, and that God told him not to go, and that he wanted to be near his grandma, etc. ad nauseam. Now he’s making feeble excuses to avoid drafting a Chinese centre who is obviously the best player in the draft. It’s starting to look like Francis truly is the ignorant bigot he appeared to be several years ago.
Francis wants Chris Wilcox? Many people want many things. Heck, our lives are sometimes dictated by wants,likes, dislikes. I want Shaq. I want Kobe. I want superman. But consider the difference between wanting, choosing, and deciding. Wants usually come from whims, and constantly change. I want chocolate now, later I may want vanilla. Making a choice, meanwhile, means considering all options and finally arriving at a conclusion which option to take. To make a decision, meanwhile, means to eliminate the other possibilities(from the french decidere-to eliminate the other), When a boxing match is very close, sometimes a split decision is made. Judges decide against one boxer for another. Wanting though is normal, and human. But ultimately, if we want order in our lives, we've got to make choices. We sometimes have to decide.
"How impressive was Chris Wilcox in his workout in Phoenix last week? Well, Maryland alum and fellow Peak Management client Steve Francis has been whispering sweet Wilcox-ian nothings into the ears of Rockets' front office honchos." Seriously, this doesn't even make sense. Does this quote mean that Francis was at the workout in Phoenix in which case he was impressed? What the hell was he doing there? Is He the Rockets new scout for the Phoenix area? Or that Peak Management is pressuring him to pump up Wilcox's value? Or that Gary Williams is psychokinetically influencing the Rox' draft day strategy? It looks to me like a deduction strung together from a bunch of coincidental facts, (same U, same agent, SF's dislike for Ming), rather than anything concrete. Does anybody truly believe the rox would take Wilcox as 1? They would have to be "on vicodin" or taking Taylor's glaucoma medication. I d on't even think Steve would do that. If he really wants "a proven player" as alleged, why would he want Wilcox? Who knew who he was before the NCAA tourney this year? I am not questioning Deveney as a journalist, I'm sure he has a source, but it looks like he's conncting the dots rather than reporting anything. I wouldn't waste my time overreacting to this story with a stream of anti-steve invective, although I guess I just wasted 5 minutes anyway.
Now you're just taking comments made about Francis and twisting it around to rip the guy. Francis never said he wanted Wilcox #1, the article itself SAID that they would like the Rockets to take Wilcox IF they trade down.
I do remember Steve commenting after the Rockets won the lottery that he had a player in mind that he wanted the Rockets to draft. Wilcox is probably that player.
I guess no ones thought of the fact we could draft Wagner at 6th and trade him to the clipps for odom. Also,its safe to assume Rudy wants nachbr,if we chose wilcox over nachbar then Steve is bosing Rudy around ,not vice versa like its supposed to be.If we get Wilcox for ANY reason I wont get season tickets.Hell,even Amare will be able to destroy Wilcox in a year or two.
If this is really the case, this Maryland stuff has gone too far. However, I think Steve probably said something to the tune of "Wilcox looks like he's gonna make a great impact next year" or the he jokingly said it would be great if the Rockets had an all Terps lineup and the media turned it around to say that Steve is demanding Wilcox etc etc.
steve does not have any power tell the coach and gm who to pick. I am sick of it the rockets did not draft T-mo because of steve they did it because they saw that he had some talents. T-Mo will turn out to be a good back-up player I thought he was worth a fIRST ROUNDER but now
I don't blame Francis. Trading the #1 pick for a proven player and Wilcox would not be a bad move. Wilcox is going to be a very good player, and the offense could still go through Steve. Drafting Ming is a better move though.
At least we know Blake likes to move the ball around, which is a very nice thing that we could use. No need to reinflate the ball on each offensive trip? Where can you go wrong
Good to see that people aren't taking vague comments by someone talking about Francis and blowing them out of proportion.
team chemistry is nice and all ... but this clique thing is getting out of hand. OMG Manny you were so right! There is a ****ing clique, and the call's coming from inside your house!
Where is Scotty Brooks? We need him back on this team to give Francis a nice kick in the arse. Wilcox is no better than Samaki Walker.
No offense to all the Maryland fans, but we don't need to bring them all here in Houston. I would really think that RT & CD figured it all out that Ming is our man!!Don't get offended now franchise!!
