Mario was asked about Spurs stuff mainly, but before he went off, they asked him what he thinks about the Rockets. He thinks we're close, and all we need is one more acquisition. He said that people need to quit giving Steve a hard time, and that he's a great player. He said that Steve was great, Yao is great, Cat had a good year, and that even Mo was good. He mentioned that he'd like to see Steve play the off guard, and bring in a point guard, as well as getting a more solid bench. The 610 people noted that you need a strong bench in the West. He was also asked, who'd win Duncan vs. Olajuwan, and he said "I have to stick with my boy, 34." Remembering, Hakeem taking down Alonzo, Ewing, Robinson, etc. and notably the Knicks game where he had Ewing, Mason, and Oakley on him. That's about all I can remember.
I love how all the former Rockets even when playing with other greats always give Hakeem his props. Very cool!
An Assistant Coach from a top notch divison rival team does not the Rockets need to make many changes to the core of this squad? Hmmm, interesting.
All I want for Christmas is a power foward and a soild point guard. Keep the core together and let them get use to Jeff's way of playing. Also the zone has killed our guards this year.
Come on, Jeff Gundy. Mario's a super competitor, but he's not the Spurs GM. Do you think the fact that Mario won two rings with the Rockets, coaches at Westside and probably has a house in Houston (don't know about this) means nothing to him? It's not like CD's going to base his personnel decisions on what Elie says on some talk show. Why wouldn't Elie give his frank opinion?
His frank opinion is that the Rockets should move Steve to the 2 and bring in a point guard. Van Gundy disagreed with that by his statements in the last press conference. All I was saying is that he is wrong.
Mario was always honest with his answers during the interview, and the 610 people loved him for that, even reiterating one of his earlier remarks later in the broadcast to back up their point: They asked him who'd win Spur's Bruce Bowen or Pacer's Ron Artest, and he chose Artest.
John & Lance kinda piss me off when it comes Rockets talk. All season they bash and ridicule Steve, cat and other rocket players but when they interview Rocket personnel or other basketball experts they try and act all professional and say great things about the rockets. They are funny but kinda phony.
I thought you were insinuating that Mario as part of the rival Spurs organization was trying to mislead the Rockets. My bad.
that's elie on top of horry and cassell, and elie and horry had the choice of picking a current teammate who they had also won a championship with over hakeem and didn't. horry was asked with the lakers about hakeem vs shaq and picked hakeem. then when he was on the spurs picked hakeem over shaq and duncan. elie nows picks hakeem over duncan. and cassell was asked about garnett vs hakeem some time this year and said garnett is amazing and does amazing things but dream is dream. that about sums it up, dream is dream.
This response isn't worth a separate thread, but I still expect lots of flames. But, so what. Here goes: This afternoon I was looking through some old videotapes when I found one containing a Rockets - Boston game from the 2002-2003 season. There was Eddie Griffin, rebounding and scoring like a PF machine. It hurt my soul to think what could have been. So, I still ask the heavens whether E.G. can be salvaged. He was the PF the Rockets needed -- able to shoot, rebound, block shots and pass. Well, so much for old tapes.
