Let me spin your analogy a bit for you in context of this thread. Do you want a woman who knows how to take care of business, or a girl who can't handle the ball(s) when it's clutch(ing) time? Girls don't become women without that experience. I'll take the woman every time, and get over the petty insecurity of her past and enjoy the fruits of the present. Go with the experienced hand, because in the end, you have a better product.
I don't know. Last season was a mystery to most of us. We didn't know what went wrong until way after the facts. Everybody was scratching their heads as to why the whole team did so poorly. This season, we actually saw what happened at the end. Of course it is also a mystery what went wrong. We are still coming up countless theories. The difference between last season and this season is this: Last season, the mystery was on the whole team. This season, the mystery is only on one player. And now we realize that our fate is in this player's hand. If he repeats this crap in the future, it doesn't really matter what the other parts of this team are.
It'd be easy to swallow if the Rockets went down fighting. But man, game 6 (and for that matter, the second half of game 5) was one bitter pill to swallow. I applaud you for getting there so quickly. I'm going to need more time.
don't think this squad can do it. Don't get me wrong, I like all these guys (Bobby Brown is my favorite), but I'm thinking Harden needs a big brother figure to hold him by the hand, mentor him a bit, piss him off a bit, and motivate him a lot. Not sure who that is. Lebron would work but I think he's spoken for.
Ryan Anderson produced well during rs, its his first season cant judge him based on one not so great month of play
i have an elusive feeling that you are slightly underrating the growth within, buddy, and improvement that comes from playing within the known system which is being perfected even more through familiarity and with passage of time thus creating a self-perpetuating improvement loop that produces results effortlessly, naturalistically and through the growth within
I dunno that the Rockets do have a bright future if I'm honest. They've wasted a ton of cap space on Ryan Anderson and that is going to be a worse and worse contract as time goes on. Stupid contracts like that will make it hard to nab top tier FA's and the team absolutely needs a starting caliber PF, a replacement for Ariza, and some depth at center with no real way to get those things. We still have Harden so the team will be alright, but I think being the 3rd or 4th best team in the West is pretty much the ceiling for the team for the foreseeable future.
I tell ya man, I'm all about the experience... yer preachin to the choir... I'm 47 so believe me i do not undervalue the wealth of knowledge that experience brings... there are however at least a couple things I would value higher... like reliability and loyalty... if I dont know that someone is gonna be reliable and do what they say (like play hard in an elimination game) or treat me with the same loyalty and respect i show them... well, then they can take their experience and boogie on down the road... and let me ask you... did james harden 'take care of business' and 'handle the ball during clutchtime' - during game 6?
I just don't get it... james didnt simply have a bad game... he straight up quit on his team, the organization and the fans - and has yet to give a reasonable reason... but folks are ok with that... whatever...
I don't get it, you are so wise and knowledgeable about the game, why haven't the rockets hired you and DD to be the GM and CEO of the rockets. So much insight, they could also get you guys at half the price of tad brown and morey. Missed opportunity.
and someone should hire you as a mushroom - since obviously u enjoy be kept in the dark and being fed ****...
I went through almost all stages of grief, from being mad to almost acceptance that there is no viable alternative to James Harden. The hope here is that Morey will keep on improving the team, that James, MDA, Morey and the rest of players learn from their mistakes, and move on to a new level of competition.
