If we are going to suck...NOW is the time to do it!

im totally ok with looking past this year for our future. i want us to get young and athletic and rebuild for beyond.

 

thread title is hilarious
hahaha

 

LOL you said "Healthy Yao"

 

Fully agree. Don't hamstring the roster in a futile chase to contend. We're not winning a title next year. We probably aren't going to see the second round next year. Don't add to the pain by making desperate shortsighted moves just to get an equivalent result. 38 wins or 46 wins...it's not much difference in the long haul.

We aren't going anywhere until we figure out what our next era is going to be. Sometimes that means sitting and waiting for the next franchise player to unexpectedly come to you.

Who knows, maybe we become the highest win team ever to win the Draft Lottery (John Wall).

But trying to force things when they aren't there is a recipe for disaster.

 

Yao will never be healthy.

 

For all practical purposes, Yao and TMac are gone, over, done, finished, the end. Which means that our starting lineup is currently Hayes, Battier, Brooks, Arizia, and Scola. May God have mercy on the Rockets. Looks like 30-40 wins to me. I think we have been to the top of the mountain and it is all down hill from here.

 

I think team ball with Adelman's actual Motion offense will make this team better than many expect them to be... Maybe 8th seed in the west if the team really gels and commits to running the offense

 

a breaking down duncan is still a top 10 player in this league.......

 

i dont think so. i think this next year shaq and duncan both will slide a lot.

i also think the lakers have 1 maybe 2 years left and they are done. and the thunder and blazers at this point the future of the western conference.

 

Aye. I wonder just how long the sentiment expressed in the thread's title will last once the season starts...

 

It's going to be very painful,but that's the only way to go. I'm all right with the Ariza signing,but honestly I wouldn't have been unhappy if we didn't get him. I'm in favor of getting a cheap backup center,don't throw more money with long term contracts. We need to rebuild even if it takes us 3-4 years.

 

Kobe is only 30 yrs old

 

"It's Time (to Suck)"

Rockets 2009-10 marketing campaign theme.

 

Go Rockets Go!

 

Glad to see you used the word "suck". I've been a proponent of such a thing the moment I heard Yao was out for the year. But since I used the word "tank", it brought mostly negative responses.

 

Seems pretty obvious to me. This team needs to tank for the number one pick. It's still a game built around stars and the most affordable way to acquire a star is through the lottery.

This doesn't mean you give up your plans to go after Bosh next Summer, but by being a lottery team, you then have two different strategies to acquire that franchise player, through the draft, or through free agency.

And I agree with the poster who said that no available big men are worth the MLE. The two that were are now signed and off the market.

 

MJ got his last 'ship at 35, Kobe's not yet 31. Lakers have a bunch of guys at 29-30 age and they'd have a good 3 year window. Portland is going to be there for 7-8 years as their core just enter the prime. Spurs, Mavs, Nuggets will be competitive for another couple of years.

The problem with Rox is that they don't have the corner stone yet. TMac is past and Yao just can't get healthy. Lottery may be a good thing if next draft is good.

 

Yao's clumsy and flat-footed, and he'll be injury plagued his entire career. Hell, his career may even be coming to a close in the next 3-5 years.