Well, you probably did not mention that Popovich softened over time and he spent some time dining and sipping whine with a handful of his players. He showed some signs of a Players coach.
one thing I know about hero-owners is that Tillman will give him all the keys and money that he wants
He'll be our Popovich or Spoelstra. That's my dream. Builds a culture from scratch and stays with us for 20 years, wins titles. This guy is truly elite man honestly we are extremely lucky to have him.
He can't, we all saw how pathetic this team looked last year, its not just the new player additions, its the attitude and the mentality that has changed and that 100% comes from Ime.
ummm - who hired Ime? ...and I think Stone - for all the roughness of the last few years would have a decent argument that although we didn't win the lotto last year, the fact we had the odds we did to potentially grab Wemby(who let's face it would have been a whole new level of GAME changer if we had the opportunity to draft him) was a calculated risk worth making. Imagine if you drafted a potential Jokic clone AND a better version of Embid - what would THAT team look like? It was a rough few years and I'm still fairly critical of Stone for Jalen and Jabari's poor development but you can see where the asset collection strategy is paying off and now that Udoka is working with those guys, I'm expecting A LOT more from them perhaps later in the season after they have had more developmental time. As far as I'm concerned, they have just been shooting in an open gym the last few years without real direction.
I've been saying this many times. It's not difficult to lose. I will never give credit to the FO for losing. I will give credit to them for hiring a good coach--and listening to the coach's rejection of the stupid signing of Harden. We still don't know if they intended Silas to be this bad and KPJ to sabotage team culture or it was just incompetent in not recognizing the problem soon enough. Either way, the whole thing wasted two precious years of developing our promising young players.
Why is Raffy getting credit for hiring Ime when he was forced to do so by his boss? Rafa wanted Vogel and Harden. We don't want those kind of vibes around here.
Yup - you and I are on exactly the same page here - been saying similar for a few years now. I think the problem is the concept of "phases" that Stone was using - that 'rebuilding phase' or 'asset collection phase' - whatever it was they were using doesn't mean you are ONLY tearing down, you can still be working on setting the new structure in place even while while the construction mess of the tear down is still happening. We have been operating in a very phase gate style and have left legit opportunities unclaimed as a result(leaving money on the table to to speak) and that's really my main criticism of Stone at this point - he is directionally doing the right things but the execution has suffered from compartmentalized thinking and single threaded focus with poor oversight on his "generals". That's where Silas really screwed the org and Stone allowed it to happen because I think to your point, there is a way to "be bad" and learn from mistakes and improve while continuing to lose games, and what we did which was be bad, have poor accountability for that and continue to make the same mistakes for YEARS to the point where the only way we could dig our way out of it was with a complete culture reset.....and then we frankly lucked out because Udoka's (fresh off a Finals appearance and his culture first style) through some bizarre set of circumstances was available to us, and KPJ eventually succumbed to his own recklessness right in the offseason where we could make a clean break, and the new CBA forced us to spend money on players rather than rolling out all league minimum guys. On the plus side, I have confidence in Udoka and his ability to manage the things Stone was clearly not capable of providing strong oversight and leadership on. Saying no to Harden was HUGE. Saying no to KPJ would have been huge if we hadn't been forced into the situation out of necessity but the reality is KPJ should have been traded LONG ago(money left on the table).
Is that confirmed? I must have missed that. I wonder how much of that was Tillman wanting Udoka because he was a Finals coach recently vs a deeper belief in Udoka's style and background under Pops. I fear it's the former rather than the latter if coming from Fertitta but maybe I'm not giving the man enough credit. It just feels like between Fertitta and Stone we have been flirting with danger a lot over the last few years - stumbling into the right decisions but maybe for the wrong reasons.
Yea you can tell why he didn't want Harden at all after watching the defense. If we had brought him here he would've sat him after 4 games.
dont know where to put this I.D.I.O.T.?? it's 45 minutes of pure Rockets talk with Tim Leggler. starts around 2:22 Sengun stuff starts around 28:46 they glazing the hell out of Sengun as the should, lol
I think we are fans over decades.....and established that Tilman is sort of an Alpha team owner. If he does not want Imay Udoka, Udoka would not be here. The question of how much he wanted him over other good coaches like Nick Nurse, I am not sure is that relevant.
I still don't think he gets the value he deserves. After beating the last champion Nuggets, increasing the value of the players in the team, especially Sengun, making the Rockets a competitive team again, and 3 years of Silas tyranny, I think people do not praise him enough because they have not yet recovered from the shock. It's a good thing Ime slept with that woman and ended up in Houston. A great opportunity for the Rockets. If he had stayed with the Celtics, he would have definitely built a dynasty there.
