This is maybe the biggest problem with TF. He's poor Dolan. So it's not like he'll f_ up for some period of time and then eventually say, okay, fine, someone smart please use my money. I'll back away, and yes, you can spend whatever, I have 10 billion more. Even if he ever learns enough to back off, he'll still be the brokest owner in the league. Quite the legacy gift from Les.
Thaddeus Brown Daryl Morey Mike D’Antoni Bill Worrell Chris Paul Russell Westbrook James Harden Clint Capela P.J. Tucker Jamey Rootes Amy Palcic Rick Smith Brian Gaine Chris Olsen Bill O’Brien David Culley Duane Brown JJ Watt Tyrann Mathieu D.J. Reader DeAndre Hopkins Deshaun Watson Jadeveon Clowney Will Fuller Zach Cunningham Benardrick McKinney Kareem Jackson Whitney Mercilus Justin Reid Jeff Luhnow Mike Elias Brandon Taubman Sig Mejdal Oz Ocampo Mike Fast Eve Rosenbaum AJ Hinch Charlie Morton Dallas Keuchel Zack Greinke Gerrit Cole George Springer Carlos Correa Last one out of Houston, turn out the lights and shut off our power.
So the son now has some time working in an NBA front office. Even with this gifted experience, would any other NBA franchise hire him for a front office role? Any WNBA franchise? Any G-League team? Any minor league baseball team? Any pro sports franchise? No, no they would not. The Rockets are now a clown organization made inestimably worse by the owner's nepotism, ignorance, and ego.
For all our btching about tilman. I am glad he isn't McNair tier yet. The Texans franchise is doomed.
I'm not following the scandal here. We all know that the FO quit over differences with Fertitta. That's not really a "smoking gun." What I'm failing to see is what Fertitta has done that is specifically bad. As far as I can tell, Stone is hugely empowered in this FO, more than plenty of GMs in this league (re: look at the Lakers or Kings). Silas I thought was a good hire. Some blame Fertitta for the Russ trade, but I think any fair review of that blames James -- he forced it, and as we're seeing now, he's elite at forcing trades when he wants them. James drove the trade to the Nets, and I don't think it had anything to do with refusing to deal with Daryl Morey. Having said that, would this team have been better last season with Simmons? Yes. Would we be better in the long run building around him and not doing what we are now? I don't think so. Maybe I'm in the minority of not hating Fertitta. Maybe there's more in the article I'm not seeing in the post (I can't access it all as I don't have a subscription). But this doesn't seem like that big a deal.
Ego is either an idiot or stone is lying. Why in the world would a guy who can contribute on a contending team want to stay with this ****-show of an org? They’re wasting the end of his career. Gordo is a pro but there’s no way he can be happy with that. Tilman must be slipping them lsd in the scampi.
Honestly it doesn't matter if Gordon wanted to stay. It was in the best interest of the Rockets to trade Gordon for an asset and open up playing time for Porter, Green, Christopher. Instead we have Gordon getting 25 minutes a night and on top of that have added Schroeder to the guard rotation, which just means less minutes for the young players to develop.
Are you serious? Tilman Fertitta got on television and flat out said that his front office and coaches got cold feet on the Westbrook, and that HE the owner is the one that forced the trade through. He is on record saying he is the reason Westbrook was trade to the Rockets.
No doubt. I’m just pointing out how lame it is to explain away stone’s blunders by trying to tell us Gordon just loves his role here and wants to stay. I’d rather him just not comment on it at all if he’s going to treat the fanbase like we’re stupid. Stone fumbled the deadline again and now his missteps are becoming a trend rather than an outlier. I don’t understand what this team is trying to accomplish and I don’t think they do either.
So in your mind, this is relevant how? People are on the trading block all the time, but for some reason both of you think this excuses anything that Simmons has done since the end of the year? Really? And the Sixers always said they were not trading him (which was a lie) and did not trade him, so he kept that bur in his saddle until the playoffs, and it sabotaged his play somehow? Help me out guys, how does this make sense?
He was on the record of calling CP3's contract the WORST IN THE LEAGUE and how he REALLY wanted to get out from under it . . . but James ran CP3 out of town . . .. . .rrriiiiggghhhhttt Rocket River
They didn’t get out from under it though. They traded it for the same contact and a worse player plus gave up assets to make it happen. It was pretty well documented that harden had enough of cp and wanted to play with his buddy. The way it was reported is that harden wanted it, Morey didn’t, and Tilman came in at the last minute to force his hand. We’re still under that contract it’s just switched faces to wall now.
