Chron.com: Rockets prep for new home, new season [Season Preview}

I totally agree with your post...I think we can be #6 or #7...no higher though...but not #9! I think we will be #6 or #7 in the West.

Last season..Feigen predicted right ...we were 43-39.

This year...only 44-38. I think we can be 45-37. I think we can win 50+! GO ROCKETS!

By the way..the articles were good but had some grammar errors. Subject/verb use ahh I hate English.

 

JVG is right. The coach can't change the team that much. Rox should be good enough to make the playoff this year though!!!

But the talent on the Rox is not good enough to win it all. During the time before Phil Jackson going to the Lakers, talented Lakers still can make the playoff even though they can't get the ring. Jackson helped the team mentally and prepared them better for the ring.

Rox can't even get into the playoffs under Rudy T. It shows that Yao Ming an SF are not as good as Shaq and Kobe. Therefore Rox need a 3rd STAR to win it all. Before, everybody thought EG would be developed into the 3rd riddle, now that's going to be difficult. Cat does not complement Steve and Yao too well, though he is a good player.

So where does this 3rd star come from?

 

I still sense some pockets of resistance.

 

Looking at the fiasco involving EG, if the Rox were not lucky enough to get the number 1 pick last year, we will be doomed.

It tells you that the draft is so important. In this department, Rox lags a lot behind the Suns and the Spurs, even Dallas and Kings are better.

We have not drafted particularly well after the top 3 picks. It seems we are good at picking players that are more certain and among the top 3 consensus picks, like Yao and Steve (from trade), but not very good at drafting players after top 5 picks. Cat is the only exception.

In baseball terms, we can pick the home-run talent, but not good with the small ball/contact hitters. Fortunately, home-run talents are much more important in basketball than in baseball.

 

This is sort of true...but Nachbar is looking better every game...of course..we could have drafted some even better guys like...'

Yes. We were very lucky to get Yao Ming. We must appreciate! But we still cannot beat the top teams in the West..

 

Murphy hasn't been a regular Rockets writer in several years yet he still writes many of the offseason previews - Sporting News, etc.

Over the last couple years, I've noticed that he had a very negative take on the team and often really didn't know much about the personnel.

I remember hearing him on a local radio show two seasons ago and he was telling everyone things that we all knew on this BBS and by just reading the paper on a daily basis weren't true. I remember that he got things like positions of the players and who had a good shot and who didn't wrong.

Every year since Steve Francis was drafted, he has written something in his previews about the Rockets needing to understand that Steve will never be a point guard. He also consistently categorized Eddie Griffin as a small forward comparing him to Robert Horry on more than one occassion.

Opinions and dreamcasting are fine in columns, but previews should be, for the most part, un-biased. Murphy hasn't been close to that since he stopped being a regular contributor at the Chron.

 

Sonics 8 and Rockets 9?

What have the Sonics done to improve their team to the point it is better than the Rockets? They have Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis and that's it. And they have ZERO post up game. No center, no power forward. I don't see ANY way the Sonics have a better record than the Rockets this season. How can they match up with Yao Ming???

 

Sounds about right to me. I can't honestly pick the Rockets to do anything substantial after last year's debacle. This team has to prove something to me and every Rockets fan that was disappointed last season...