This report was over a year ago. Has anything changed? Why should Stone be trusted?

I never read that article , and certainly don’t think the Bleacher Report’s cred is beyond reproach, but I really don’t like the sound of this. It may be that Stone is a lot more responsible for what’s going on, on the court, than I thought.

I do worry he has some egomania going on.

 

we'll need a ruling from @napalm06 to see if this thread counts

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Silas is still here next year despite what the local media talk show hosts and Rockets twitter are saying. Silas isn't perfect, but I'm curious about what he could do with a better quality roster. Stone did nothing to improve last year's 20-win team besides drafting Jabari, Eason, and TyTy so we all should've expected the poor record again this year. Hopefully Stone can bring in some vets by the trade deadline.

 

Stone’s goal is to hand a trophy to Tillman. If Stone is at practice talking to players, it’s obvious he is looking past Silas into the future. ie the players will be here after Silas is gone. Stone’s trust in Silas is limited. Stone doesn’t have anyone on this coaching staff that he likes long term because he would already be using said coach to do his bidding. Stone future is tied to the sinking ship. I am sure Stone is desperately trying to figure out what he has on his roster because the players are developing at different paces. It’s got to be hard if not impossible to evaluate from the shadows.

Stone would be a fool not to be a practice and mixing with the players. The organization is historically bad it’s broken and Stone’s job is to fix it.

 

Burn them all.

 

It does cite an article, however the article is from Bleacher Report. I'm going to increase this to 63.9%. Mediocre effort.

 

The fact that this article could have been written and published yesterday is a problem. These guys are no better than they were then. That sucks. Tanking sucks.

 

I always thought all of this talk was silly. Measuring a coach by the record when the organizational goal is to lose seems pretty weird to me. Obviously had Silas had a chance to coach the Harden led Rockets team we had previously and we had these kind of results it wouldn't even be up for debate if he should be fired. But he's basically been coaching the McDonald's All- American team against actual NBA teams. It's not surprising that they're getting stomped.

 

I remember this. It was also around the time Theis was starting .

 

It's 2023 and KJP is still an NBA prospect (FYI).

 

I heard this recently on the radio that Stone is interrupting practices and film sessions. He is overstepping boundaries. It seems like Stone likes Silas because he’s a yes man. I don’t see Stone firing Silas or if he is fired,
I don’t see him hiring a coach who will put his foot down and tell him “No, you won’t be interrupting my practices or my film sessions.”

 

i hope this is not happening. If it is, Stone needs to go. There’s lots of things he could be doing to improve the team. He’s a freaking lawyer, he should focus on the front office. This explains a lot if this is true.

 

Even much worse than Jackson because at least he had credentials on his resume no matter how much his said Zen ideology was overrated, Jackson was very good at getting those to play their roles to a T

 

The head honcho past 14 games has solidified his so called best player Rockets status, Stone will make sure his reclamation project he traded for and those high lotto drafted picks work out come hell or high water, ego is a hell of a drug and mans biggest foe

 

Tanking is hard!

 

If Stone is doing what is rumored, then he is the problem. No decent coach would put up with that. Of course we don’t know if it’s even true. What is true is that this team sucks and isn’t showing much growth. And tanking still sucks.

 

@Nook @Plowman what have y’all heard about this through your sauces?

 

It is not a rumor but it could be exeggerated.

We had tweets with Stone and Silas during practice sessions.

Just too lazy to look for that.

 

This organization has a history of not letting their coaches coach their team unfortunately.

GMs should handle personnel decisions and coaches should coach and if this is true I'd think less of Stone as a GM.

I actually don't have a problem with most of the moves he's made. The Theis thing was odd, not trading Ego another mistake, but he's done a great job with the draft and has the ability to draft useful players outside of the lottery which is extremely important for a GM.