All of you FICKLE FANS need to go find another team to root for

i blame the coach.

 

What is there to support? A team with 99 power forwards, 1 disgruntled PG who hates his coach and tosses balls at female refs in a pickup game, one disgruntled SG who is scared to play defense, one warrior PF who is aging and doesn't want to be traded but the team feels differently, no signed center - and a bunch of mid range high bust rate draft picks.

And to top it off there is no direction whatsoever, not one of going young, because we still have Lowry, Kmart and Scola as starters, nor one of getting veterans because they don't want to sign here in the merry go round atmosphere created by Morey.

This team is stuck in nuetral trying to go uphill.

Meanwhile - flying by us in the fast lane towards getting better are:

Minny
Phoenix
Clippers
Memphis
New Orleans

Seriously - you are ok with that?

I have been a fan for decades and this is by far the worst I have ever felt about the direction of the team, even worse than the tank year we won like 15 games to get Ralph and Rodney.

Upset, yeah, I think some of us have a right to be upset - and I will not be going to the games to support this crappy product until they make some serious progress.

 

I am tired of posters trying to blow sunshine up my ass by rationailzing away every failure of the organization to get better. I understand it, but everyone else needs to understand it -- this is cognitive dissonance. You're a fan of the team and of the GM and you want to reconcile your desire to say they're good with the evidence that shows they're bad. So, you re-interpret the data or the definitions so that you can paint a picture in which Morey and the Rockets are still performing.

That's fine. Go ahead if it makes you happy. But don't make out like I'm the unreasonable one here for calling a spade a spade. Give Morey some truth serum and ask him if he's happy with his own performance after trying for and failing to get Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Pau Gasol, Dwight Howard, Eric Gordon... who else was there? So many targets have come and gone, I don't remember them all. Ask him if he really thought it'd take him this long to get his franchise player, this many offseasons of saying he has enough assets to swing the big trade only to have it fall apart on him. He's a smart guy, so I know what he'd say.

 

We kept the better player in Lowry so I have no problem.

 

someone needs to tell the prima-donna coach that he's not the main attraction. the Players are the main attraction. this aint the 1980s boston celtics anymore.

who cut lin back in the day? the coach

 

Oh, hell yes, I'll admit to that. And I've never said I'll root any less for the Rockets than I have in the past, or spend less money. That won't change. What I want from the team is a clear direction. Go young, go old, go in between, but go somewhere, and make it clear where you're going. That's what I want, and I don't think it is too much to expect.

 

Daryl it's not nice to mingle with BBS posters, they'll drag you down and beat your with stupidity.

 

I can kind of see the 'fickle' notion.. especially as concerns Lin.

Ok, maybe Dragic ends up being better than Lin in the long run, or maybe Lin ends up being better.

I myself was a huge Dragic guy, so much so that I was perfectly happy to let Lowry go in a deal as long as we kept Dragic.

While I have not heard anything directly from Dragic yet, my gut tells me he just preferred Phoenix to Houston, if the money was roughly equal. If that is the case, how does that make Morey a failure, if the player chooses somewhere else?

Anyway, what I am really talking about is, I remember how people were losing their MINDS on this board when Lin began blowing up in NYK. I mean, is was insane, and people were just roasting Morey and the franchise for letting this 'Superstar' go, when we could have kept him. Never mind that had we kept him, there is almost zero chance he would have had the success he has had, and quite possibly never would have. So in reality it's probably for the best that we DID let him go.

In any case, people were screaming about us not having Lin. And now that we are trying to get him back, suddenly the guy is a dog?

Come on.

So yeah I cn see how the word fickle can be used.

But I don't think fickle is right for the way these slugs have crawled out of the woodwork and begun slamming Morey and the team, while sill a week away from anyone being able to sign anything.. sheesh.

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This post says it all and as far as I can tell indicates much more intelligence than the OP's arrogant statements about how fans who aren't happy should leave. We're fans and we are upset because we see how bad they are. We likely won't go to games, buy jerseys or watch near as many games. But we won't stop being fans. Stopping fandom is fairweather at its best, but being pissed that we are stinking up the league is not a bad thing. If anything it makes those fans even more passionate. Sorry if I don't share your blind faith in Moreyball.

 

Morey Only Fan?

Rocket River

 

All of you people saying we shouldn't be mad and "trust management" are just as annoing as the fickle fans that are trolling. By the way, lmao @ your ASSUMPTION that management knows what they're doing with the team as if theres never been an nba team that had horrible management(hello MJ). Fans have a right to be mad if they don't like the direction of the team, we pay money to watch, follow, and support the team that we can voice our opinion. The money I pay for league pass, nba tickets, and merchandise gives me all the right to complain.... I agree some fans are extreme and annoying but most of us are only doing it because we're diehard fans and want the team to succeed anyways

 

If you were a fan of the rockets in the mid 90's and were old enough to really remember you know what a championship team is and to see what the rockets are doing now and foolishly have hope in it is simply stupid. For the past three seasons especially I believe the whole nba as a whole right now with its new generation of superstars don't like Rockets management. Kevin McHale and Daryl Morey are not Rudy T and Carrol Dawson. We don't need book smart so called hard a$$'s we need guys that truly understand what it takes in this age of nba basketball in conjunction with today's nba superstars and players to build a team to win it all. We don't have that... We have money ball bs and Kevin McHale trying to build off a bs Boston philosophy of the 80's.

 

^^^ still don't know how to edit. I forgot to mention just because a players isn't leading us to a championship doesn't mean we don't need them. Basketball is a TEAM sport...

 

Morey=Money (for Le$ Alexander's pocket)

just about every move this franchise's management makes is geared towards bottomline value while maximizing marketing/turnstile revenues.

the owner won't allow a rebuilding season in which revenues inevitably fall, nor will he pony up the cash to get real talent

and fans are supposed to embrace is this disaster train wreck of a franchise?

 

Voicing displeasure with management decisions and roster moves is not allowed on fan boards. Ever. If you are upset, the only solution is to not care or root for another team. Rooting for another team in bad times demonstrates that you are not fickle. If you do care, it is because you are a bad fan.

Thank you for the insight, OP.

 

HaHa, I like this post.