I'll go ahead and answer that for you. "Yea, you know, we have a great front office, tons of good, really smart people, from Tilman Fertita, down to the guys in the video room. I'd say both the front office and the coaching staff are aligned in what we want to do on the court."
Look at where we are, compared to ORL, OKC, DET, CHA, and SA. You don’t have to be a complete s*** show to tank. “We’re rebuilding! We’re tanking! What did you expect?” is the laziest and most ignorant take on here.
Some people have different opinions, if someone disagrees with an opinion, it doesn't necessarily mean it's hard for them to understand. I see plenty of significant issues with the Rockets, I just don't think media questions are one of them.
Astros last 100 loss season was in 2013. In 2014 they improved to 70-92 and fired Bo Porter. Springer and Correa didn't get called up until the 2015 season (Hinch was hired here) when the Astros went 86-76, second in the AL west. In 2016 they went 84-78. In 2017 they added Yuli and Bregman. And so it's been since then. The Astros are the model in the MLB for player development. They've let 2 1st picks walk and since have replaced them with Jeremy Pena and Yordan Alvarez. The Rockets are absolutely not this. The player development has been an absolute trainwreck. The "this is fine" dog about sums it up for the Rockets at the moment. They are leaking oil everywhere. Media hates them. Their fans hate them. Their players families hate them. Anyone who's been remotely talented at their job has left. Morey, D'Antoni, Harden, Bill Worrell, Cayleigh.....we can replace players and we can replace coaches/managers. But there's one thing we can't replace. The Texans had a similar reputation in the NFL.
That answer, if that's his answer, would tell us something, namely, that major coaching decisions come from the FO. Whenever the boss and the subordinate are "aligned" it means that the latter says "yes" to the former.
Easy follow up: So does the GM actually dictate lineups to you, or is it more a collaborative sharing of ideas as is normal in all organisations? And if the answer is a non answer or half answer, evading the question, that is quite relevant and telling. Something fans would immediately pickup on and talk about. Not every question as a journalist has to be a Frost/Nixon explosive moment when the interviewee just succumbs and lets everything out. The non answers can be interesting. But not if it's 'what do you have to do to win the next game'... 'we have to play hard'.
Lakers, Yankees and Cowboy’s media are tough and in your face all the time. I have notice these media guys tries to be Silas and Stone friend…this is a business and they owe the fans
No, is there salary caps in the majority of Football Leagues? No there isn’t. You can literally pay a player as much as you want, can you do that in the NBA?
You watch the games do you truly think the Rockets are trying to win these games with the way they are managed/coached?
No I don’t, they want another top 3 pick. Why is that so hard to realise? We are so bad yet we are only 1-2 spots behind teams that arguably have all star calibre players and everyone bar Eric Gordon has has been in the league for 2 minutes.
You do realise it takes most NBA players a few years to work stuff out yeah? I love jalen but his no MJ or Kobe. People expected him to basically put this team into the play ins before the season started. what type of expectations is that?
everyone else sees it too. It’s not okay to lose on purpose in pro sports. It’s fixing games especially when the owner of sad franchise own casinos.
I just said, and you better listen, franchises don't do things equally well. Some franchises do things better than others. And yes it sounds like something from Animal Farm.
