There is nothing wrong with thowing in these next 3 games. I believe thats called "getting in where you are fitting in".
Amen to that. If you're in the tankers' shoes, it is very frustrating to feel the team you have followed all your life is about to make a big, long mistake, and then watch them do just that ... but I think it's fair enough to wait until the year is over before really analyzing everything. But if there were two camps before, I think now we should be fairly united in that everyone is frustrated, and that should be the catalyst for real change.
I just want it to be august already. I think everyone will agree that comrade luifa deserves better. He would be awesome coming off the bench for the spurs or another contender. let's say you resign dragic and roll with only your young players. Center-unknown(hopefully taller than 6'8) PF- montiejunas/ppat SF-Parsons/budinger SG-dragic/13th pick PG. Lowry/dragic what if that team, with the departed luifa, Lee and Martin, still manages 43-46 wins. Is the forum still going to be crying to rebuild/tank?
The negatives that come with losing far outweigh the huge gamble of the lottery.The list of hi-pick draft busts is ever increasing. I guess I'm in the minority of all the doom and gloom around here,but I actually enjoyed watching these guys play.They had a burning desire to win every single game they played,to me that's what sports are all about.
love ya HP, and i don't like the "i told you so" crowd, but that rumbling in my stomach and foul rotting smell coming from my ass is not the bad mexican i ate last night. It's my faith in the organization.
I never made a lot of them anyway, its cool though it served to stop the rox talk vids, so mission accomplished I guess. DD
No, we should have tanked from day one. It's too late now. It's actually better, I think, to give up the pick we owe than to use it on some mid roll player.
Well, well, well. I've been concerned and frustrated with this very situation for going on 12 years now. Big, long mistake indeed. Last night, I watched San Antonio dismantle the Lakers and couldn't help but wonder just how different things would have turned out for the Rockets if their organization had possessed a smidgen of the competence of that of the Spurs. This year marks the Spurs' 16th straight year making the playoffs. Rocketsheep would literally kill for HALF of that right now. Everyone here likes to point to SA's "tanking" to get Duncan but nobody wants to discuss just how good that organization has been in drafting and finding talent. Of how the inherent stability at the top of the organization starting with Popovich as the head coach has been a key factor in their success. Or how that team always had a distinct identity whereas the Rockets have none. Or how that organization had a definitive plan for succeeding to which they have remained dedicated throughout good times and bad. Contrast this with the last 12 years of Rockets' history and the differences are stark. Two GMs, four head coaches and staffs, no cohesive strategy or plan for fielding a team capable of competing at the highest levels, YEARS wasted on a revolving door for average to mediocre to bad players, questionable player acquisitions, questionable actions by the GM - it's no wonder that the legions of Rocketsheep finally feel frustration. And yet, nothing I have seen from this organization from the hiring of Morey to the hiring of JVG, Adelman, McHale, (fill in next head coach name here) gives me confidence that any type of "real change" is around the corner for this franchise because there is something fundamentally wrong with this organization that has been going down a road to nowhere for going on 15 years now. And, until Les, Morey, Clutch The Bear or whomever gets a F'ing clue as to how to run a successful NBA franchise, NOTHING is going to change.
In one of the greatest pools of talent in the draft since the legendary '04 draft, the Houston Rockets get... the 13th pick.
Don't be such a debbie downer. Someone good will probably slip down to us and we'll get to draft a future star... and then trade him to the Grizz.
I did a pretty good job of staying silent most of the season, maybe a couple of GARM post a week, but it's all boiled over this month. What really bothers me, though, is that the catalyst for real change that you are calling for, we are calling for, might not happen. There's no evidence that Les has gotten the message, and we could be right back here in another twelve months.
