The offical ESPN Power rankings is a joke thread.

What do you get for being number 1?

 

Hmmm tbh im okay with our ranking.

By all accounts Houston is still fielding calls about Harden and listening.
2-2 is hardly ground breaking start.
Our defence has looked trash.

Look id probably have us top 10. But there are more questions about this team than answers so far.

 

As long as we are top 30 I’m cool

 

Every year it's the same story, we end up rising after being heavily undervalued. It's like they keep forgetting that any James Harden team is an automatic top 10. As long as James isn't traded and we don't have a rash of injuries we'll keep going up the rankings. They are completely useless and heavily biased year after year just like MVP voting.

 

I have never understood why people give a **** one way or the other about this......playoff seeding is not decided by ESPN........it is just people at a bar talking...nothing more.

DD

 

Agree, 19 is fair, maybe could have been as high as 16. The team needs to just string a series of wins together. At this point I don't see James being traded this season at all unless, come February someone ponies up Stone's asking price.

I also do not think James will sign the extension unless some amazing bond with Silas happens and Stone keeps making the right moves.

Here's hoping though!

Happy New Year by the way to everybody.

 

People at a bar talking? what is that like?

 

Don't worry bro I'm sure this ranking gonna up after the last couple of games. OTH Clipps and Nets def on the way down.

 

A Cadillac.

 

kinda like paying attention to @DaDakota 's 109,227 postings

I keed, I keed

 

rAnK uS hIgHeR, we'RE, go0d, I sW3aR. Pl3easE! joHn wAli c@n H00p

 

But, but, but.... WE'RE GOOD THOUGH, I PROMISEEEE. Lulz!!! Listen to the 99'ers when they speak.
@tinman

 

16. Houston Rockets
2020-21 record: 9-9
Previous ranking: 23

The Rockets are 6-3 since the James Harden trade -- despite John Wall, Christian Wood and Victor Oladipo all missing games -- and have the NBA's second-best defensive rating (102.8) during that span. Wood continues to make a convincing case as an All-Star candidate; Giannis Antetokounmpo is the only other player this season averaging at least 20 points and 10 rebounds while shooting 55% from the floor. -- MacMahon

This week: @OKC, @OKC, @MEM, SAS

 

Weakass paper hands.

 

You’re pretty pathetic tbh.

 

I don’t even understand this...paper hands? Is that a new term the hip kids use?

 

Rockets to the moon

 

Yes. When you have weakass paper hands you flip flop on your team. When you have gorilla diamond hands you HODL strong to the rocket and ride or die with your squad no matter the circumstances, to the fking moon.

 

I know the Diamond hands reference from reddit
Paper hands could kill though ever had an infected paper cut on your scrotum?

 

Its not that kind of paper. Toilet paper soft.