lol, 38 homers on this board (so far). you care about winning games, what about winning CHAMPIONSHIPS??? You say next year, how bout in two years, 3 years and beyond??
It has way more to do wth just loving our players.... Yao 20+ ppg. Scola 18 ppg. Martin 20+ ppg. Ariza 15 ppg. Brooks 20 ppg. Thats a damn good starting 5!!
With a center to backup Yao for insurance, the Rockets have the squad to win multiple rings. This teams depth is good for more than just wins. This teams core has playoff experience and with the right moves is ready to move on to the next level.
you guys are nuts. i love the rockets players and all, but we would be getting 3 of the top 10 players in the league. hell, 3 of the top 5. you'd be insane to keep an injury prone all star center, a semi-injury prone all star wing, and a few young talents over that. I would be fine with being stuck with only the 3 players because A) morey has proven he can manage a team's cap situation incredibly well. B) we still have new york's draft picks. We all know what morey is capable of doing with them. C) It's possible that a few of the players would get bought out and re-sign with us. D) since we haven't offered contracts to our rooks yet, they wouldn't be included in the trade. We could sign wafer and/or mike harris and give ppat a contract.
No I'd be pissed especially if that pulled it off the the same way and did all this crap they've been doing. For me it would be hard to be a Rockets fan. Besides we're not horrible like Miami and their front runner fans. Eight percent of their fans were on Laker Bandwagon last year.
NO WAY!!! The whole fascination of sports for us is that it is a mirror of our lives. We like the myth of the underdog battling through adversities and overcoming long odds to win. We like to root for underdogs because that's us out there. Aside from the cruel way Lebron disrespected the Cavs fans when he made his announcement, the other thing I hated about the Miami trio is that it's just greedy. How many rings did they think they's win? Seven? Trying to win it all without going through killing yourself. Trying to get to heaven without dying (I totally got Dan Gilbert's metaphor.)
I would... didn't even need to think about it and I really like Yao, Scola, Ariza, Martin, and Brooks. Those three plus me and DD would contend for the playoffs, and next year and the following, when Morey would be able to add MLEs and drafted players? Start building a trophy room.
I'd be more curious about what Les Alexander and Morey would do. Not what they would say (right now) if asked the same question -- but what they would do if presented the same opportunity. Here, what if LeBron and Bosh had decided they wanted to join Yao, and it would cost us just about all the rest of our roster to make the change and put the organization in roughly the same situation as Miami in in now...would the organization have done it? Yes, I bet they would have. Would 99 percent of ClutchFans have been ecstatic about it? Yes, I bet they would have.
Oh, and if you recruited Lebron, you'd have to babysit his friends. Didn't the Cavs give one of them a well-paying gig with the team, supposedly paying even more than what the assistant coaches get? And didn't Riley also promise to do the same?
They jsut added Haslem and Miller and are on the verge of apparently getting Ilgauskas and maybe Derek Fisher. The worry when the Heat super-team idea was first propsed would that it would be those 3 plus second round picks and cast-offs, so if one of them got injured the team wuld struggle mightily. But now? No Wade or James? Simply plug in Miller and let him play off whoever is there. No Bosh? Haslem is an adequate stop-gap maneuver for short streches. Depth problems fading. Fast.
Yes. Because in the NBA it's easier to load the team with role players than superstars. And with Morey as our GM, he would get it done.
So, were the Rockets "quitters" when they traded Carl Landry? Were they quitters when they decided not to resign Ron Artest?
Derek Fisher agreed to return to the Lakers but they may get Ilgauskas. There are too many holes to think they are a championship team as is. No starting C or PG. No backup PG. James and Wade can't shoot 3's effectively.
But Miller can shoot. And come on Jordan Farmar and Fisher are the world championship point guards for the last 2 years, so something leads me to belive you don't need a world beater, you just need a better version of Matt Maloney. Hell, they might as well add Adam Morrison and make themselves even lamer. He could be the new white Jack Haley.
