Gee, take a pill and chill. Also, try reading my posts. Your comments don't match mine. I am not on a "Fire Gundy" crusade. I am ambivalent, maybe a fresh face would help, maybe not. That is not the point I am pressing. My point (read slowly) IS that TMac and Ming do not have enough help. Grendal, et al. I understand your point. They haven't all played together, BUT we have actually had a better look at the role players than if they had. True they are not "playing their roles" but we can look at their skills: quickness, shooting, defending, passing, etc, etc. IN MY OPINION, this group is not talented enough to take the Rockets to the next level. That's all. It is a valid opinion, it is shared by many others. P.E., to suggest that your posts are somehow superior to mine is utter nonsense. Your opinion is no better than mine, and this whole board is a fantasy. Get a grip.
Denniscd, Do you even know that after your juvenile name-calling you completely agreed with what I said?
I don't agree with that assement, to me it's like saying that a group of bricks can create an arch without the keystone.....for the better part of the season we haven't had our keystones.
I'll be teaching latin ballroom at the UH social dance club again this semester. Come and find out. Also competing in march at the Texas Challenge with my partner Jenny in seniors. I'm not a kid anymore. I'm just a crazy Rocket fan like you, though my opinions may be different on what's a good coach or what kind of ball I'd most enjoy watching. None of us really have much say in it, but we're lucky to have Clutchfans to talk it out . You can learn a lot from different perspectives. I've learned a lot here. Even from Van Gundy supporters, Cuttino Mobely fans, and YOHs. It's funny how I'll think about some of these discussions when I'm doing something totally different.
Thank you solid for saying what needed to be said. Two years ago when the TMac trade went down, virtually EVERYONE "assumed" that this organization had the right people in place (CD & the gang) to surround our two "building blocks" with enough talent to make this team a serious contender. At that time I questioned why so many folks were placing their trust in people who had done nothing but screw up the draft & personnel for the previous 4 years (how quickly all those years in the lottery were forgotten). Nothing I have seen since then has led me to change my stance which is: NOTHING will change for the Rockets until significant changes are made at the top of this organization. While I did not expect the Rockets to become the MASH ward they've become, I was not high on their chances this season because even with all of their "additions", they still did not match up very well with their competition in the Western Conference. As such I did not invest a great deal of emotional capital in this season. This lack of emotional involvement has served me well because I have been able to watch this team crash in a more objective manner. As for the future, what you see now is what you have been seeing now for well over 10 years and what you will continue to see: a team being run by folks who have no plan for building a winning team. Sure, they may all WANT to win and win very badly but they don't know how to bring that about.
We will just agree to disagree, but, I was thinking about how the "real" supporting cast is Ming and TMac. When they are healthy, they "carry" the role players. IMO, this group is just too heavy. Needed a vaccum cleaner rebounder and sharp shooter, last year, still don't have them.
How gracious you are, I was really irritated by the suggestion that your ballroom dancing somehow disqualifies your remarks on this board. I'm better now.
pasox2...if you guys dont win it all, then the dance competition was a failure and you will have to fire poor ol jenny. because with you, blame is the name of the game. good luck to you and jenny
well you cant compare them to the Lakers because.... Kobe pretty much equals Tracy. But Yao does not equal Tracy.Shaq was a perrenial MVP canidate and for some years Kobe was. Shaq makes people around him better (Damon Jones,Derek Fisher, countless others). Yao does not. So therefore , JVG and CD has to bring in WAY bettter role players than what the Lakers had. I still dont think with a healthy cast we would of beat , Dallas this year. As soon as they start playing small ball we would be finished. 4-2 rockets loose series.
Some of you who's taunting Swift's 17 ppg better take a good look at what JH, DW, and RA are averaging in the last few games.
To be fair, on the last road trip where both T-mac and Yao were playing he was starting to show signs of improvement. We'll see how he does whenever he come back from the nurse's office
It's silly to speculate what this years team would have done because they've done exactly WHAT THEY'VE DONE: Not won a single game without TMac, centered thier PG hopes around a career SG who has been mostly injured since day 1, been beaten by perennial losing franchises, picked up has-beens and never-will-bes on the cheap to fill gaps (note: this is nothing new to the Rox: it was one of Olajuwon's bigger problems with the Rox). Most of the offseason moves were good (I like Alston 10X as much as "what me pass" Mike James; Luther is a monster who, likely, will be a casualty in the effort to bring in another has-been; Swift has been servicable). How can people say "the starting line up should've been good?" NO: it is what it is: injury prone & mildly heartless. Where's the fire? Where's the pride? Resting at home with an injury? Just venting, but this season has been a total wash so far & hoping that our aging, sort-of-good role players will be the answer later this year or (god forbid) next year is super-overly-optomistic. I don't have the answer or I'd be making that 6 figure salary, but I don't know that the people who should know the answers in the organization do....
