beyond the glory: steve francis

i think he did some interview with John Thompson and he seemed finished. JT didnt tell him he was finished (like he did to Penny) but was surprisingly trying to pick up SF3's spirits by asking him what happened to the cocky Steve who nobody could stop. and that Steve needs to get back that attitude.

it was very apparent that the guy was done though.

 

This is the Steve Francis today:

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Congrats on your second post :grin:

 

where's cuttino?

 

Is this a NEW Beyond the Glory:Steve Francis or the one from a few years back? Just wanna know before I get invested.

 

Could we just move on?!

 

So I watched...and remembered this quote of Stevie's (re: Toyota Center) "This is the gym that I built...by myself." and with that remark, Steve Francis died with me. He never really understood what was here before him, cause Dream and Barkley were on the way out, and he thought hoops in h-town started & ended with him.

 

when steve got traded out of houston his career went M.I.A. smh

 

i think he meant he was the star for that part. arena. dream built the summit but more importantly, the city of houston itself.

 

is that crackhead moochie in there too??

 

I still remember when I was in college and heard that we traded for Francis, exciting times. I remember we'd gone through a glut of point guards (Maloney, Brent Price, Bryce Drew) and people were wanting to trade for Damon Stoudamire so bad to help out Hakeem.

And I was excited again a few years ago after I had gotten back from Europe to see us re-sign Stevie, though it didn't work out.

He left it out on the floor. He just never learned how to develop other aspects of his game and depended too much on his athleticism, but man, he did some amazing things on the floor. You always felt like it was a maturity thing with him.

Played hard, big smile, was at the lottery when we got the pick for Yao, was Yao's big brother. Still one of my favorite Rockets of all-time.

 

Watching made me realized how much of a prima donna cry baby Steve Francis was. He was a special talent, but a knucklehead who never learned how to the play the game and who found his way out of the league when he had to start relying on brains that he didn't have.