late first round is a crap shoot, you don't really screw up draft picks unless you're looking at a top 5 or maybe top 10 flop.
Swapping 3 first round picks for Eddie Griffin was inexcusible. However, you can't blame the organization for those other picks. The draft is more about luck than analysis about a player. Of course the Rockets would have chosen the right players if they knew they were that good. Heck, other teams would have picked them beforehand if they could turn back time. Point is, you don't know how players will turn out, so the Rockets just got unlucky in the drafts.
So Kobe and Gasol would win this year's championship if they had Lowry rather than Derek Fisher? Your logic is wrong on so many different levels. You blame playoff failure on the 'star players', not on a role player like Luther Head.
What the F are you talking about bro. Seems like you don't watch the Rockets so gtfo I'm not even go to bother answering your stupid ass post. Trying to twist what I said. Idiot
Needs to be: 1) At least lottery if not top 10 2) Dubious choice at the time 3) Worse in retrospect Distant 4th) There were better guys afterwards 5) I'm skipping all the picks in the 70s. In general, there was a lot of crap. I won't kill them for the Richard Jefferson trade, because at the time I was pretty excited about it. We were dying for size, and EG was considered the #1 prospect going into the draft by a lot of folks. It's not like Jason Collins or Brandon Armstrong amounted to squat. There's the endless debate about the Battier/Gay trade. Tough call there. Honestly, they don't have a monumental, Darko, WHY draft pick in their history (unless you go all the way back to the 70s, when it seems half the league were doing powder in the war rooms). Boki was a poor pick...until you revisit how terrible that draft was. Prince and Boozer surprised the entire league. Pryzbilla/Collier wasn't horrible either - there weren't obvious alternatives at the time (Redd was buried by the Bucks for a few years), and Pryzbilla didn't exactly vie for ROY. Another BAD draft class. All in all, there isn't a high pick that leaves me burning.
Flamesuit on, but... Yao Ming. Set our franchise back 10 years. Looking back at that draft, if we had taken Jason Williams, 1. maybe he doesn't get in the motorcycle accident? 2. even if he does, we rebuild right then and there, we don't trade for McGrady, we return to respectability much sooner than we would have otherwise. I mean, look at Chicago now. They tanked again and again and finally ended up with Derrick Rose.
Wow, Einstein...tough guy...or whatever names you want to call yourself... So what is the real reason for my 'stupid' post? Don't watch the Rockets? Trying to twist what you said? Make up your mind first. It's stupid of you to say drafting Luther Head is the reason that we couldn't get pass the Jazz. I would look at Yao and Tmac when I am talking about our playoff failure, not a role player like Luther Head. Oh by the way, if you believe that throwing out the F word would make you sound more tough and intimidating, you are even more stupid than I thought.
Huh? Jay Williams stunk before the accident - hence the Bulls putting him on the injured list for "stressed out" Yao/Francis weren't contenders but they were a bubble playoff team. Subtracting Yao, moving Francis, and going with Jay Williams and Cat would have left us with a profoundly worse team and no trade pieces to swing the McGrady or other move. Only way I can see your angle here would be if we ended up with a top 5 pick the following year and landed one of James-Anthony-Wade-Bosh.
