[CHRONIC] NBA lottery draw was a capper on Rockets' mediocre season

Who are the the free agents in 2011 that are better than Bosh, Lebron, Wade?

 

Alot of people like to talk about selling high. Yao out, tracy out, was battier's value going to be any higher? What was the purpose of shane this season minus yao and tracy? I like the way they competed, but truth is you either make a move to get into the playoffs or you develop the young guys.

 

I laughed. ...... .....: :grin:

 

Because nobody wants to take Shane on, without giving the Rockets a crappy player on a bad contract. He sucks, Leebigez. His only value would be would be in February, when teams Only have to pay 2 more months of salary and have it drop off.

 

OK then, exactly how many years are you willing to devote to this process knowing that while you are standing still waiting for this guy, your competition is doing all they can to improve their team and moving forward? That's the dilemma you face. By the time said player is "ready", the rest of your team may not be what you expected years ago. Then what do you do?

Ah, the 2010 Lebron Sweepstakes theory or should I say "the Mark Cuban lust for next big stiff" theory. Sounds sensible on the surface but the NBA is a "win now" league and you can never tell what things will be like that next summer. Most importantly, you really have no way of knowing that your franchise will even have a shot at landing one of those so-called "better players". If you wait and then miss out on the players you've targeted, then what?

No need to go cite the Knicks - all you need to do is to review the decisions made by Rockets' management over the past 12 years. That's the true definition of making "short term decisions".

 

Teams wanted, just not at morey's price. Its well known he overvalues his player and i really dont have a problem with.

 

Jeffries contract is $1 mil lower than Battier and expires next year also. NY had a high price at first like Morey. Then, they folded and gave up 2011 draft pick swap, 2009 8th pick, and 2012 draft pick.

Morey is not so desperate. I wouldn't even give up 1 first round draft pick, let alone 2 and a swap. Battier is not worth trading away with 8th pick, draft pick swap, or even a future 1st pick.

 

I just noticed that a portion of my earlier post where I listed their won-loss record somehow got omitted. Here is what was originally in that post:

A few things stand out:

The Rockets' best two seasons followed their two championship years when they went to the West Conf Semis & Finals in back-to-back years.

Since the 99-00 season, they have been in the NBA lotto six times including four straight years in the lottery (from 99-00 to 02-03) yet only have one active player to show for the futility (guess who).

Starting with the 95-96 season, they've reached the playoffs 9 times. Of those nine playoff appearances they have managed to get out of the 1st round of the playoffs only 3 times - reaching the West Conf Semis twice (95-96 & 08-09) and the West Conf Finals once (96-97).

Since their championship years, the Rox have won 50+ games a total of five times. However, they have only managed to get past the 1st round of the playoffs when doing so only twice: 96-97 & 08-09 (so much for feeling good about 50 win seasons).

Starting with the 95-96 season, the Rockets have won an average of 44 games per season for a winning percentage of 0.536 or 53.6%.

Conclusion? Don't know about you but a look at the numbers tells me that the Rockets are the poster boys of mediocrity - which is what Solomon is grumpily saying in his article while being called names for doing so.

 

FAIL

Another fact that he got wrong, learn more about basketball please, before posting those articles!

 

Congratulations. You proved CD was not a good manager. So?

 

At the Houston Chronicle...

Solomon to newsroom: Hey guys, guess what? I beat all of you with hits on my blog post!

Justice: again?

Solomon: Yeah, all I do is type the word mediocre and clutchfans.net does the rest.

Justice: you could try being nice for once.

meanwhile at NBA.com...

Blineburry: I got fired? Seriously?

 

Where does Feigan fit in the equation?

 

I don't know. If he goes as part of a package for Bosh, the answer would be YES!

I don't know. Maybe so players like Budinger and Taylor don't turn into Kevin Martin defensively? Real life basketball isn't like a video game, you know?

 

Gasp! REALLY! I am stunned! What about all of the folks here who consistently extolled the virtues of CD for all those years because he shuffled player through here like passengers in a rail station? Could they have been wrong?

Sorry if the facts are not to your liking but a key point of this discussion was the venom directed at Solomon because he labeled the Rockets' season as mediocre because they wound up in the NBA lotto (again) with a late lotto pick. He has also maintained that the Rockets are a mediocre team and have been so for years. Well, if you look at their record since the last championship, they basically average out to 44 wins per season which unfortunately is mediocre.

But wait: what does this have to do with Morey (aka Morey the Genius, Morey the Great, etc.)? After all HE's the GM now and not CD, right? Well, it has everything to do with Morey. You see, ever since he came onboard, he's been stuck cleaning up the mess that CD left behind - a mess that has accumulated for years ever since their last title. I have always maintained that you cannot outrun your mistakes and that's just what has happened here. Now Morey has to clean up one final mess left behind by CD and that's the biggest one of all: the failed Tmac-Yao experiment that has gone poof. I wish him luck because he's going to need lots of it to fix this one.