What do you consider to be the Rockets' biggest problem (Feb. 2023)?

Why is it I feel like there is an agenda coming??

We all know the Rockets have seriously about 40 real problems that contribute to them being the worst team in basketball. All the problems snowball into one big problem....

Which is that the Rockets are a historically bad team at the game of basketball. The only question is how to fix that so this team can one-day be good at basketball again.

 

I went top three. I'm a big fan of our draft picks so far, Jabari being the one I'm most concerned with (though I think if he manages to bring back his shot production from College into the NBA that's a big win.) Our problems feel way more organizational than player based in all honesty. It's pretty telling that less talented youngsters across the league are developing into solid players way quicker than our guys are. A lot of the issues in the list should be coachable issues, but they're still issues that aren't getting fixed. What I wouldn't give to see what Morey and D'Antoni could do with this bunch and the assets we currently have.

 

I did... the biggest problem is we are not good at the game of basketball.

 

Coach let's his favorite kids run wild

 

Missing lack of vets, missing lack of pg, missing team sht at 3pt, lack of mins for jc/tyty/garuba, missing gm whiff at drafting (for those who dislike green/mobley), a lot of options missing tbh

 

They are all just really young and inexperienced. None of them really know how to maximize their strengths and minimize weaknesses to play efficiently. Some of these guys will develop into good, maybe great players. Others won’t. But there’s no way to tell now because they are all still so young.

 

Young team being young.

 

The power structure with the Rockets is very clear.

The owner doesn't have to answer to a board of directors or stockholders.

The biggest issue is the owner.

The owner is the person that ultimately holds everyone accountable.

The owner was so terrible, one of the best front office's in the game fled.

The owner hired a GM that wasn't qualified, that had never done the job and didn't have a basketball background really.

The owner has allowed the GM to hire a HC with no HC experience, and has let him keep his job.

The owner agreed to trade for Porter AND extend him.

It all comes down to the owner........ if he had a different GM, then we would likely have a different HC, etc.

 

Tilman the worst owner in the league will always be the primary problem. that's just obvious

The rockets roster is made up of kids in the beginning stages of a full rebuild

FO is mediocre to bad

 

Ishbia in his first week on the job traded for Kevin Durant

Poorman is a rat

 

&$^@ absolutely runs downhill. To the outsiders the HC issues are high visibility. The GM, not as much. The owner, even less so. But your assessment has the stink of logic all over it

 

Yup.

They are not terrible like a few teams when it comes to talent evaluation. The problem is that there is no depth to anything the front office does.

They evaluate players almost in a bubble and don't consider fit or how the game is evolving.

When it comes to culture, etc.... they have been terrible so far.

 

You can't really single out a few people and say will if he would of played defense or if he would of took better shots. The team as a group are not communicating while the coaching seems to be layed back.

The turnovers are outrageous. I mean this team is horrendous, there is no team chemistry. It seems like everyone is too young and inexperience to make educated decisions. It's going to take a hard nose coach to come in here in change this.

 

I mean you have guys like Patrick in the FO, guys who know next to nothing about the game. Who is just as bad as his dad. we really shouldn't be surprised

 

Bad owner, bad coach. The bad coach will be fixed soon and I don't think Silas' tenure is doing any permanent damage. Fertitta isn't going to stop us from turning into a playoff team, so that's nothing to worry about in the immediate future, but when we are a young 6 seed with a couple young RFAs and we need to pay the tax to keep the team together and go get a full MLE veteran to climb the standings? That's when I start getting nervous.

There are no unfixable problems with our young players. They may not all be on the team in four years and may not turn into a complete team without some consolidation trades, but that's a natural part of a youth movement and is completely reparable.

I'm not worried about Stone unless for some insane reason we try to make the playoffs with Stephen Silas coaching.

I'm not worried about calling 20-year-old kids a bust. I'm in it for the long game.

 

Starts at the top with Tildo.

That said, we're in a tank job. So it's going to be a **** show regardless right now. I have some doubts with everyone in the organization.

I am unimpressed with Stone, often confused by Silas, disappointed in Green's production, surprised by Jabari's brick-laying, cautious on Sengun's potential, frustrated by the obvious misuse of KPJ as a PG, and stunned that Nix has anything at all to do with the NBA.

But again, we're tanking. It was always going to be brutal. I (and many others) have been saying this since the Harden trade. I don't know if changing out 1-2 of the people listed above makes us any better; we're just here to suck no matter who we have.