Calvin is colorful, opinionated and has a small following. Considering the miniscule marketing share that sports radio fights for, that small following is enough to justify him getting his own show for an hour each day as long as that following is there. Once the novelty of Calvin on the radio wears off and only his core fans are left then his slot will be moved to a more obscure time of day. You will here snide comments from Calvin about how he is being disrespected by not having his rightfull forum during drive time and all will be right with the world. Calvin is a clown who has a forum because of a previous noteworthy body of athletic accomplishment. He has milked his schtick for all it is worth. More power to him. Does not make him an expert on Basketball. Drexler is in the same boat IMO. Bull is only slightly better.
Well said. Murphy's opinion is basically meaningless. He was colorful and often amusing as Worrell's sidekick, but just as often moronic and silly.
I decided to quote myself, because no one noticed what I said. Calvin said on his live show that Scola would play shooting gaurd for this team. I liked Calvin during the games, because he was colorful and he was a homer, but he does not know what he is talking about when he talks about this team.
In the same show, he said McGrady became "an average player" when he had to play SF instead of SG. Huh?
I live in Sacramento and i have been watching adelman's teams up close and personal for years . He runs his corner series which was for the shooters mike bibby and peja. The corner series was split hand offs that they ran which were bread and butter plays for those particular players.He also ran motion where they moved the basketball and had the player movement running together he would sit players down if tehy didn't pas the ball enough inside the motion. He ran his high post action that featured vlade and Web. He had set plays for bibby coming off of screens or peja as well. It wasn't just princeton high post stuff, he ran a mix of different things but the personel at that time all they all had high basketball IQ which why when they traded away peje and other guys he couldn't run the same stuff. Then it became where they only ran the corner series stuff which what he is forced to do now with this current team.
I totally agree. But as I said, it's not really the substance of what he's saying all the time...it's how he communicates it. It's ok to say, "Hey, there are still question marks about Tracy's ability to step up in a big game." But Calvin doesn't do that. He goes off on him. He attacks him. Screaming and ranting all the way.
Yao will get a lot easier buckets in this offense and they will be very close to the basket. As long as he goes strong we will be hard to stop. Also, this offense is not that complicated. RA has just begun putting plays in which means we won't have many set plays come the beginning of the season. Yes, basketball is simple but for some reason JVG had lots of offensive plays on every possession so they weren't just throwing it into to Yao and having him kick it out. Those were all set plays and they didn't work when we needed them to.
Just a consideration... I don't think anyone here doubts that Rockets Red runs in Calvin's veins (sorry, arteries). When you care deelply about something you tend to express disappointment with anger. Posters do it here after emotional losses -- like Utah in the playoffs. I didn't hear him, nor do I get to listen to his program, but I suspect it's just a manifestation of how deeply he cares to see the Rockets win. If he had consistently dogged Tracy in the past, it would be one thing. But he's given his share of praise to McGrady. I think it's just hurt coming out as anger. Many here thought Tracy could have done more, many thought Yao made mistakes, and Rafer, and ... pick almost any player. In close games you could pick any of a number of mistakes that people are bound to make and say that was the "one" mistake that cost us the game/series, etc. That's hardly ever true.
Drexler as Coach of the University of Houston was a joke. He was run out of town cause the team was so pathetic.
i still say you can't blame last year on mcgrady. he played with a team full of centers in my opinion. who could create there own shot? rafer, luther, shane, chuck, yao, and mutumbo all would sit around and wait for mcgrady to create there shot for them. any coach that has some type of basketball IQ would figure hey stay with tracy and make him pass to someone other than yao no one will beat you. easy to make it work in regular season but come playoff time different story a team has time to make adjustments to make the stops and that is all jerry sloan did to us. it was to late for us make the needed adustments considering the trade deadline had past. That's why i wanted us to go after maggette at the deadline someone who could get his own shot or go to the freethrow line
man screw calvin, tmac is right..this is his team. its been proven that we cant win without him because he makes ever teammate better on this team just look at last season. when yao was out we were still up in the top 4 seeds because tmac was there. the reason why tmac didnt get out of the first round last year is because he had no other help out there. bonzi woulda made a big difference but that was JVGs fault for not letting him play because rebounding killed us.we had no other scorer besides him and yao, who was getting owned by boozer.and as for our bench in game 3, they had 0 points.tmac tried. he cant carry a burden like that on his shoulders.now with the new addition and new system i expect him to continue being a leader and much less pressure will be put on him because we got the right pieces.we just gotta make it work. GO ROCKETS! i cant wait to see yall play!
Who cares what Calvin Murphy has to say about anything! He is a child-molesting, baton-twirling, purple suit-wearing, flaming homosexual!
How dare you talk about a Rockets legend like that! The man was innocent of all charges. Not to mention that him and Bill Worell make the best two-man announcing duo of all-time. Just for his contributions to calling the games, he should get a free pass on anything he says. He made every game that I ever watched enjoyable. That includes the hard times after the Glory Days.
Dare me, again! Calvin Murphy is a child-molesting, baton-twirling, purple suit-wearing, flaming homosexual! P.S. - They said OJ was innocent, too.
Ok so because of OJ, every athlete that goes to court and comes out innocent, is really guilty? Or is this how you treat everyone who goes to court and comes out innocent? I'm sure if you were accused of being a necrophiliac but was innocent, you wouldn't want people to still think you were a necrophiliac.
It was his own daughters and family that accused him. Would you accuse your own father of a crime? Multiple of his children accused him of molestation. Even if he was innocent (unlikely), they didn't have much respect for their own father. You can't possibly think that multiple daughters from different wives could be so evil to conspire against their own father and falsely accuse him of crimes he didn't commit. No amount of money could force that many daughters (who didn't even live together or grow up together) to say such things about their own father. My guess is that they just didn't have enough evidence to convict him. Calvin Murphy is a loser.
hmm the moderators wouldn't put up with this type of crap. Calvin was one of the orginal Rockets (1970) led the Rockets to the NBA finals 1981, went to the hall of fame, and stayed with the Rockets organization on TV til 2004. that's 34 years of dedication to the Rockets, something you'll never know cause you aren't a true fan.
