What is the recipe for the Rockets to win a championship again?

Patience.

 

Luck. Or a favorable fortune cookie.

 

You know what i mean.

 

I would say, the main ingredient is ONE top 5 player with a maniacal competitive drive, which you surround with at least 2 more great players of all star caliber who all know their roles well. There are other ways to the top but this is the most obvious to me. We need, eventually, to pick a dominant player to surround our current young talent around and acquire a coach who will let it all gel together, whether that be McHale or not. We do have some potentially good pieces though.

 

well it's not the dpoy, only 3 of them have won nba titles in that year, and only one of them won the finals mvp (and he probably deserves to be in team mvp more than he does team dpoy).

mvp and finals mvp+ championship has been pretty common, although not so much the last 10 years or so.

Lebron, Duncan a decade ago, Hakeem and Michael in the 90's, Magic and Larry in the 80's, Kareem, Wilt and Bill Russell before that.

But teams with 3 all stars have won a ridiculous number of titles, probably in the order of 25.

 

Not one of these guys has a ring.

 

3 cups Superstar
1/2 cup Linsanity
2 tbsp role players
1 tsp McHale
Add Royce White to taste
Bake 5 years

 

5 years?? I like 3 years, med rare
n u forgot to add lamb chops

 

Lamb chops will develop in 3, become super asset, get traded for a real star which in 5 will become a crispy championship. I'm experiencing insomnia right now so ignore my ramblings. But we won't win in 3. I'd say 5 at the earliest, gotta wait for the superteam windows to close.

 

Ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain

 

A "once-in-every-decade" dominating big man that can stay healthy...

 

a change back to the old uniforms, logos, and insignia.

look at the Baltimore Orioles

 

Get a couple of superstars that would be a nice start,we should start targeting Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love.

 

Harden is a future all-star, and is already at that caliber. And, his performance has been trending upwards every year; he's prolly far from peaking.

Even if 2 of the rookies break out, that translating into wins for playoff contention will take...at least two years prolly.

 

Stern dying in a fire....to heat up a Murray stew of win.

 

All Star/ Super Star caliber players. We haven't had any since Yao and your favorite SF