1999-2000, 2000-2001,2001-2002,2002-2003, 2003-2004(we barely got in) like mr. bill said, this is the most important offseason.
We can bundle our picks for a higher pick and go into next season with a chance at the 8th seed or 14th pick again! Yeah! The mediocrity treadmill continues.
As a pro-tanker before the season, I am still pissed off at how they finished it. And, I think this team still could have been in the playoffs if they had a decent coach. DD
Serve me up a plate. I will always want the Rockets to make the playoffs though stubborn I will always be. I see life through Rockets colors. Been a fan since 79, it took 15 years to wait on the first Chip. I can wait some more to get the third but has been already 17 years, damn.
I would never want my team to tank unless they came into the season like the Astros, already likely to be in the bottom 5 of the league. Even then, I'd only want them to trade away vets. I'm happy with attempting to rebuild on the fly.. so no, I won't eat anything
20+ years of mediocrity. Or 5+ years of suckage and then a decade of championship caliber play? Every team rebuilds man. As long as we do it right, we won't end up like the Bobcats. The key is to get a new core and stick with it, not get a new core and then get another new core and then another new core.
we have a 13-14 pick and we have a 16-18ish pick 1 lottery homeslice and one mid a high lottery at that like that past two years and we see what they brought us
The Rockets lost on purpose to get Akeem. It was a tankfest between Portland and Houston where they last 10 games were lost by some very odd sub patterns I'd had not seen before. The only game we won...against Portland in a hot potato contest.
I keep seeing this line pop up around here and I just don't get it, Les and Morey told everyone the direction they are going. Try to win without tanking. We are what, 1 year into this plan? Give it time.
However true this may be, I'm talking about me and how I continue being a fan. What they did over 20 years ago has nothing to do with how I view them now...or any team. If you purposely lose/tank, you suck, period. But I know the times are a chchchchanging and being anything but your best is now common place...even in sports. just.my.opinion
To me striving to be the best beats keeping "assets" too long and throwing out a product that is marginally average and telling the fans to enjoy.
The tanking for Akeem was: 1) a tankfest between the 2 worst teams in the NBA at the time 2) before the lottery (actually the reason the lottery was introduced) These days, tanking guarantees you nothing except a bad team and a <25% of getting Anthony Davis. Look at the teams at the bottom of the league. Charlotte, NO, Washington, Sacramento, Cleveland, Golden State, Toronto. Outside of NO and Cleveland (who cratered after losing their superstars), the rest of these teams are perennial cellar dwellars. They get wonderful Top 5 picks year-after-year and still suck. Cleveland hit the jackpot with #1 & #4 last year and still suck big-time with Irving and Thompson. Washington is as hopeless as ever with #1 pick John Wall. If you're bad enough to have a chance at a top 5 pick, it usaully means you have been bad for a long time. The only team I can think of that has pulled off the one-year tank job is Utah, and even their Top 3 picks (D-Will and Kanter) have gotten them back to the same level as the Rockets (borderline playoff team) but not the promised land. It's frustrating as hell to end up with the 14th pick again, but the grass is not always greener on the side.
Can be. Tanking does not insure anything but there is nothing wrong with going really young, and jettising your good veterans for draft picks along the way. DD
But that seems to be the catch 22 with this team. We played our best ball with Lowry and Martin not playing. Even if we traded away Scola and played Patterson heavy minutes on top of that we're still a 9th or 10th seed. To truely tank we would have to get rid of Lee, Dragic, Parsons and Camby to get to the level of Raptors and NO type suckiness.
