Its late, but I want ot get these thoughts posted. Steve and Cuttino are players on this team. They get a large paycheck to play a game. Their role is to play the game on the court and represent the Houston Rockets organization. Their one objective is to win. It is Rudy T's and CD's job to put the team together to obtain the objective. It is Rudy's and CD's job to evaluate the talent and decide if a certain player will help obtain the objective. You have the workers and the thinkers, the muscle and the brain, and when one starts trying to do the others' job,"its time to amputate". If Cat and Steve think that they should have a major decision on who the Rockets should trade and draft, then as I stated before, they should be traded for the right type of players. Winning should be on these players' minds. Now some of you are gonna say,"Of course they want to win!" But they want to win the wrong way. They want to get all their boys on the team, and try to ball the way they think they can. They lack a major ingredient in trying to get the winning recipe...trust. Saying all this out loud about who to draft, who to trade for, is a back-hand to the face of CD and Rudy T. As much as we want to think that NBA basketball is a game, its a business. Although the NBA is prevalent about spreading basketball worldwide, David Stern and the NBA Board of Governors are about making money. The owners hire the management staff and they scout, draft, and acquire talent. My perception of the "so-called anti-Ming alliance of the Wink and Cat" is this, even if you have a round hole, maybe a square peg will work out anyway. Hypothetically, now lets say that you and your good friend work at a store. Now you have a friend who is good at what he does, and would be a great addition to your store. Now management has the opportunity to acquire a potential difference-maker, a guy who could come in a get some results made, he's done it on a lesser level (competition wise). But he'll take time to train, but you know that if the gamble pays off, that it will mean nothing but great things for the store. I say you have to take that gamble. Great franchises are all made by taking risks, and planning. If CD and Rudy decide to draft Ming, because he can help us get to the nest level, then Cat and Steve need to trust their management's decision. If I go to my boss and try to start to do his job, most likely I'll get written up or fired. Steve and Cuttino need to realize that their jobs' are on the court. Let the management do the thinking and piece the "championship" team together, the players just need to do their part on the court, and not worry about who to trade for, or who to draft.
Thank you Novak. Cat, and Francis, and whichever other Rockets want to be GM, need to realize that Dawson and Rudy do have 2 titles under their belt. None of the current Rockets have won jacks#it, except for Glen Rice, when he rode the coattails of Shaq and Kobe. Yet, he was still unhappy winning a title in LA. Just shutup and play.
Thats one of the best post I've read or has been written. I agree that if they don't think he'll work out, they are not untradeable. I would really hate to trade either, but this buddy-buddy **** must stop. I understand what Anderson was talking about a lot of nights. I watched many times even this season when it was Steve, Cat and another player on the break and they passed the ball to each other. I remember times when Griffin ran the lane in hopes of getting the ball and francis or mobley would pass it to each other. I want them to try to play together with the entire team and not with just each other no matter how close they are. If they think having Odom will push them ahead of the top 4 teams in the west they are wrong. A developed Ming and Griffin together would be better than anything in the West. They just need to shutup and play.
