Ease off the clutch, there, OMR! I was trying to make you laugh! I didn't think this would set off another tirade. I thought we simply agreed to disagree and that we wouldn't throw out rude insults at each other. This comment qualifies as neither rude or remotely serious. I've learned a valuable lesson: Never joke with you.
Sorry, I thought the original comment was in reference to getting the #1 overall pick (Anthony Davis, the ONLY bona fide, sure-fire star in this draft). If you want to talk about getting picks #2 or #3 as well, then I suppose the Rockets would need to win about EIGHTEEN times out of 1,000 seven-game series in order for thekad's assertion to be false. Call me crazy, but I think the Rockets would win at least 25 out of 1,000 of those series.
Haha! Sorry I did not know you were trying to be funny. It didn't sound funny. Anyway it was a poor attempt. So don't cry if you inject someone into your post and they respond. I was just refuting your kooky argument. Rather pleasantly by my standards if I say so myself.
Stop being so sensitive. You say one little comment Bima clearly made in jest was uncalled for, yet you call Bima a baby and you are repeatedly antagonistic towards him for having a different opinion.
I am not sure what this has to with you but I think Bima's a big boy and he can take care of himself. Find some other place to stick your nose.
I am pretty sure the Rockets' chance of advancing past the first round is better than your chance of winning the lottery at #14.
Well it's a public message board so I can comment and get over yourself. Also, you've talked trash to me in the past thru emails so I figure why not state my opinion. He is a big boy, but your constant trolling of him gets old. Anytime Bima is posting in a thread or starts a very informative thread I know you will be there trying to antagonize him. Bima actually provides informative posts and does stuff that he doesn't have to do to give us more insight about the more mundane things of the NBA business. I'm not sure what you are providing. If you want to take repeated pot shots at someone then just be ready to respond when people get bothered by them.
It;s not my job to provide you anything. I have no desire to provide you anything. Also I do not troll anyone. I am a Rocket fan who comes on this board to find out about my Rockets team. I read post and respond as I feel. If my posts to Bima bothers you of course you are free to comment. But if you stick your nose in a snake pit it's not if they will bite, it's when. And since you say you have history of me that which I do not remember, (I have never emailed anyone on this board except Clutch) it seems you knew what to expect and came in ready to argue. So butt out or not but the same thing you accuse me of doing you are blatantly guilty of. Just for the record. I have my reasons for arguing with Bima. None of which I consider pot shots and none of which have anything to do with you.
Yah I see your point...I guess im just optimistic that with 3 picks, and all the players we can trade and our willingness to eat a bad contract...we could snag the 1st pick. I made 3 1st rounders, martin or scola, marcus morris and eat a bad contract....you dont think that is enough to snag the no 1 pick from the bobcats?
Ohh and also id imagine you know this...but they are talking about the 2013 draft sucking royally after the top 3...so itd be better to get our pick this year and pay the nets in 2013. This year there is probablly going to be a chris bosh level talent or two taken after the lottery.
I must say it is very early to rate a draft class already, but, just looking at the players that were named/went to the McDonalds All American (i know the game itself is silly) the ones from last year (this years draft class) we're leaps and bounds better. Davis, Zeller, K-G, Beal, etc. The only thing about this draft class is the relative lack of international players and PG's, that could easily change in next years draft.
This is really painful. They are doing it against all odds too. I no longer believe that they will miss the playoffs. It's still probably something like a 55% chance they make it, but last week i thought is was like a 55% chance they don't make it. Woodson's vodoo seems to be working. Another week like this week, and our chance of a Knicks' pick in the 10 range will be a pipe-dream.
Let me first preface this with I know you contribute a lot to this board. You have a following of appreciative fans who enjoy your cap updates. I know it takes time for you to do it and I always learn something from it. And in spite of what I say about other things I appreciate that. That being said no one on this board is infallible. No one in the Rockets organization is infallible. For example I think Morey is a brilliant man and certainly one of the top GM’s in the league but I still think early he had problems judging talent. I do believe in the course of his job he has improved. But through that course he is made more than a few mistakes. He has admitted to some. As well I consider you an intelligent poster but like Morey I do not think that makes you infallible. I suspect you would agree with this. But yet in your arguments with me you have never considered that you may be wrong. I argued this point of flexibility over and over to a point where we could only agree to stop. You have continued to argue the point in other threads which is completely your right and while I think it is a flawed argument I have never injected my opinion in those other threads were you have posted your argument. You have since expanded your argument to include bad draft , winning helps the young players etc all valid points. But for the record your original argument and what I disagreed with you on. It was simply you prefer to get rid of our obligation to the Nets this summer as opposed to receiving a lottery pick this summer. All the other stuff wasn't there. Dump a lottery pick this summer for more flexibility going forward, that was our original argument. And that is what I disagreed with. If it was anyone else I would simply say what a stupid argument and go on. But because I do believe you are intelligent and I like a good debate every once in a while I engaged you. But the problem with engaging you is you have a following on this board. Some of who support you without even knowing if you are right. I can not see how you can argue with flexibility being more valuable than a lottery pick this summer knowing if that were true Morey would never had included it in the contract or at least rescinded it. That’s a case close kind of point. So we agreed to disagree and that was supposed to be that. But then you argued your point again trying to interject your flexibility argument to change my poll in the manner you thought it should be to support your flexibility. You have a right to do that but the problem is you know I do not agree. So now my simple poll turns into a debate on whether your point is right or not to a bunch and you just sit back an watch. As opposed to me just getting a feel of how people thought about something I was questioning. And now you inject my name in one of your posts that have nothing to with me. And for the record if you learned something I hope you learn that putting a smiley face on a dumb comment doesn’t make it funny. This was a point we agreed to disagree on and have avoided engaging on even though you have been posting it everywhere. Your comment was unnecessary. And throwing a smiley face on it didn’t change that. So throwing it out there in a comment with my name doesn’t make sense. And now I get to deal with your fans who want to protect you when you created the problem. All that being said I will acknowledge there is something about you that annoys me. Your flexibility issue isn’t the first thing we have clashed on. We had some argument about my ability to judge talent in the past. This is such a hard thing to debate but I believe I have a sense about players that I think is better than a lot of people. I have been a part of basketball for probably more years than you have been alive and while that doesn’t qualify me to be an expert I still feel in many ways I am. There is no way to prove that point with only a small track record on this board to go by. But yet I debated that with you argued that point with me to the point of being insulting. So I expect that is part of my annoyance. It’s like you are the smart know it all kid who always has to be right. I never liked that kid. And perhaps that causes me to over react a bit to your arguments but again putting a smiley face on a dig doesn’t make it funny. We do not have a good history for you to do that. Especially when you know I have a history of being a grumpy old man and that is something I have been pretty consistent with. I know this was a long post about almost nothing to do with the Rockets and I didn't mean to derail this thread but maybe you can see my response is mostly a reaction to you even if you do not like it. I will not bring this up again.
