After 13 games, what is your vision of the possiblities for the rockets, this year?

I see the Rox winning 50 games, and at least be the 6th seed.

 

Our players have given us repeated signs of them falling back to their old ways this year. We are young and more vulnerable than most teams and a losing streak will really test out the true character of the team.

 

Humm, I think we will win only 42 games. Im factoring an Injury to francis or ming. If one of those two get injured even for only 2 weeks,then that would be a tailspin and losing streak. Every player every year gets injured,so when it happens this year ,its over.

lakers
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9. rockets

 

Yeah, I'm thinking around 50 games and challenging for the 6 spot. It shouldn't be a problem if we keep beating the teams we're supposed to beat. Throw in a few upsets here and there and presto. 50+ wins.

I don't think we're in the same class as the big 4 in the West, but I think we can make some noise in the playoffs. Playoffs are all about half court game. If I were one of the big 4, I wouldn't want to face the Rockets in the first round...

 

Its dosnt matter, they can beat us all 4 games the point is we have a better record at the end of the season, & on another note we are much better than the blazers when your leading scorer just makes 4 points what do you expect?

 

& sweetie i dont think iv ever read 1 post from you that was acctuly sweet y is that?

 

Sweetie is just mad because she got fired from her secretary job. I'm negative simply because I'm an ******* by nature...

 

The Rockets are not that young anymore and a losing streak is not the type of character test that would prove useful. I think winning close games by reaching way down within the gut will be far more useful and nurturing. An occasional loss as an educational tool is not unacceptable, mind you , but losing on a regular basis will not build character.

That said, why do you think the Rockets are more vulnerable than most teams to a breakdown over a losing streak? That is not an unfair question, given the youth of other teams and the league-wide changes in personnel.

 

Can't argue with your top four. The wolves haven't won consistently yet, but even without their new talent they've been known to have huge surges, so I think they will seed in front of us, but it's not certain. Memphis is still a year away, yo have them up way too high just because they beast some good teams (including us) they haven't taken care of the bad teams as well. We will almost certainly have a better record than Memphis. We were arguably better than the Suns last year and we still will be, they have lots of athleticism but sometimes the offense bogs down too, they are not consistent. Portland will implode, hopefully but the end of the year we will have figured out how to run the offense smoother, because they cannot stop us if we play like the first quarter of that game. We just need to figure out how to adjust to Yao being denied the ball.

So there, 48 wins and a 5-6 seed.

 

Please don't quote "sweetie". Half the people here have her on their ignore list.

Thanks.

 

Best Rebounding team last year was the Hornets. This year so far, I am not sure.

The season is still young and everybody have alot to improve on. However, because of the great talents we have, I think we will benefit the most as the season go by.

Beating tough teams on the road will be very crucial to our success record-wise. Should we slide in to the playoffs under any position, it still will be very hard for us to come out as winners. The top 4 seeds are just unreachable unless injuries cripples any of the 4 giants, and all of those 4 have more experience and confidence than we do. The teams in the West have all made huge roster changes, while we are learning to ditch our old ways and playing together, they too are trying to find the chemistry among their stars. Don't be too suprised at their improvements as well.

Will we make the playoffs? I certainly believe that our players will push through for us. Are we gonna make some noise? Hell yeah! But the chances of going to the 2nd round or winning it all are still very slim, but a man can always dream, and if you can dream it, then you can do it

 

Yea i kno 2K but damn not even 1 positive post i would think it could happien some time?

 

Amen. We as fans no longer have the Dream, but we as fans have a dream. IMO, the Rockets do not need to dream because they are in the embryonic stage of a vision. I love this team.

 

Good question. One word comes to mind: Resistance. Players have shown signs of resistance ever since JVG took over. I can't put my finger exactly on one thing that happened, its just a lot of little things adding up to make me feel that way. It's not big enough for someone to be concerned over it YET though.

Everything from JVG's comments about pockets of resistance, about Stevie always trying to hit a homerun, to too much dribbling, to being too fragile, to playing too unprofessionally.

And Stevie's rebuttal comments about him playing that way for years (dribble dribble and take the man 1-1) and it's been working, why change, to us making silly mistakes over and over again not learning from our mistakes, ...so on and so forth...

I just sense JVG will go insane if we stopped learning and improving and get back to our old habits, that's all. If this happens, there will be change.

 

Sweetie, this is not sweet at all

 

Thanks for the input, Chen Ford...

 

A-Train, I swear to god I'm not drinking. I'm just stoopid.

 

ChenZen

there have been rumors about resistance.
I have seen no verifiable signs of resistance to what VG is cooking. Lapses in gameplans and problems at execution do not spell resistance to the coahc in my book.

 

There is iron in your words, sir, and I have noticed that same character flaw. However, I also can see signs that the team as a whole is buying into JVG's philosophy.

We as fans see those flaws because JVG "packages" them to the press in ways Rudy T. would never have considered. (Please do not conclude that I want to go back to the Rudy days, but I do have certain "style" preferences.)

The core players -- despite reverting to their playground style on occasion -- do seem to be consciously trying to accept the JVG philoosophy. IMO the Rockets players have earned the chance to show us more.