yes i get he does way too much, i always say that. thats why i believe he abuses the ft system, to conserve energy but gerts carried away. he and ariza beend oing way too much since their first years here, and now gordon, his minutes in the rs shouldnt be between 26-30, po's up to 30-31. u dont wanna take risks on your expensive injury proner u just signed. instead, sit down with ryan, figure out what he can do he can do something other than ****in spot up shooting, and initiate him a little more in the offnese. also using the bench more, terrible terrible flaw for a massively experienced coach. but doing way too much, doesnt mean you take 10-12 shots in an elimination game and turn it over like hell ala game 5 vs warriors and game 6 v spurs. yikes. even tmac went down swinging in the mavs series and jazz. they[re both similar in that they have untapped potential but they never reach it cuz they dont care.
QUOTE="sushimaster, post: 11103825, member: 15413"]Yeah I really don't post much around here, but when your best player on your team lays a goose egg the way Harden does, you bet your azz I am going to speak up. James Harden was the savior I thought was going to bring us championships again. It's not that he can't be the best players in the league, but the guy quit on the most important game. Unless he atones himself, I'm not going to let this go. He can start atonement by refunding all the people who attended Games 6 their money.[/QUOTE] Go back to jenny lin.net
Dude, I don't care about any of the childish back & forth. No "real" Rocket fan supports quitting, PERIOD. You can make this about me if you want but the Rockets organization has never been about quitting. From the Calvin Murphy/Rudy T era, up to the Hakeem/Yao eras, even the Luis Scola days, this team has never had that type of stigma attached to it. Yet you guys find this acceptable, and I'm the idiot? Yea you got me
That's dumb. It's not a culture of quitting. The only culture Les has ever really been committed to building is one of getting fans to come see the games. That's very apparent by the way he treats, coddles, protects his star players. He knows stars bring people to the games. This organization has no culture and relies on the memories of middle aged men to help project the fallacy that the Rockets franchise is built on success. It's a entertainment product and Les markets it as such. The only real consistent "culture" I really enjoy is the way Morey finds treasures in the draft. He found Parsons and now Capela. I love watching the young guys play.
Solid post. Speaking of Les and his commitment to getting fans to Toyota Center... what happened this postseason? $1 beer and hotdog promotions?? Pre-game entertainment but nobody shows up? Semi-empty lower bowl through much of the 1st HALF in an elimination game 6 against a state rival?? The corporate excuse doesn't add up. Those seats, and the Lexus Lounge, have been exclusively corporate since the Yao days. I've just never seen anything like what I saw on national TV this postseason. But then again, maybe my perception has been tainted living so close to Oracle all of these years.
We need another high level player to take the leadership reins away from Harden. Let Harden be himself, but we need more knife-fighters and a legitimate number 2.
It's a bit too late for that. I'm not saying Harden can't coexist with another high level player. I think he can. But absent Lebron or KD walking through that door, Harden isn't going to "give up" leadership. Which is fine... I don't blame him for that, I just think as fans you have to realize that. Which is why the best case scenarios of players that maybe perhaps would come - Hayward, Griffin, etc - all involve players who would be great, amazing talent adds, that would still play off Harden.
If that's the case, you can replace Les's name with Morey's. Daryl Morey is the one who's coddled James from day 1. From his unnecessary comments on twitter regarding James over Steph MVP "who does James have around him". To his ridiculous protection of James every time James quits. Morey is the one who's front & center acting as if Harden's the 2nd GM running the show. When the Rockets hired MDA it was a Les decision. Alot of you whined and said "this decision is all on Les when we suck this year" and now MDA the COY. When we win it's In Morey we Trust, when James quits and we fail it's all on Les Alexander. The culture here has always been about hardworking blue collar guys. Hakeem, Mario Elie, Sam Cassell, Shane Battier, Yao Ming, Luis Scola etc...All your favorite Rockets were all guys who gave it 100%. The James Harden/Quitter era is all Daryl Morey's
Why should we feel grateful for a product we pay for, that uses our tax revenue to prop up their arenas, and where the employees make 100 to 1000 times more than the average citizen? **** that. Harden is lazy and can't even have the conditioning level of his peers. Stop being so coddling towards him and the team. Houston sports owners feel less urgency relative to other markets from my experience as Houston fans tend to coddle and be very accepting of decades of mediocrity.
I'm with @REEKO_HTOWN here. For one, I'm not happy about the MDA hire. DOn't care if he wins the COY award or not. It's similar to the MVP award imo. What matters to me is playoff MVP and playoff COY award (which don't exist, though Finals MVP does). Les clearly and obviously cares about coddling to superstars (does he even know how to attend a game anymore without Hakeem sitting next to him, lol) and not losing at all costs. That's his prerogative, it's his team. I like DM. I'm not sold on him as the best in the league, but definitely a top 10 GM. I do think he's been as handcuffed by Les' philosophy as not. But probably would have neded up in the same place, coaching aside.
