[CHRONIC] Rockets fans accept mediocrity — and that's exactly what they get

He's an idiot

 

I wonder what he'd expect out of the Spurs if Duncan & Parker were out for the ENTIRE season? Not even a shade of a hope they'd play ....

And of the Mavs if Dirk & Kidd were out all year?

I think Nyle would be saying "When are you going to root for a good team like the Rockets!?"

 

I would love to give this guy a Houston ass kicking

 

what the hell is wrong with having faithful fans? we didn't make the playoffs but we still have fans because we care about our team and we're hopeful for the future. we aren't fair weather fans like some other franchises (lakers)

 

So by your's and this quack "King Solomon's" philosophy...the Rockets, knowing Yao would be out this season, should've just broke the bank for an average free agent to help bolster an impossible "championship run". Or what? Payed Marcin Gortat 6 million a year? How about trade off brooks, landry, scola for someone like chris bosh and butcher our entire roster of young talent while ruining any chance of signing anyone or having pieces for a sign and trade?

The Rockets are the best run organization in the NBA. They've had horrible luck by having constant injury problems with our franchise players. Also, having 2 players who experienced the worst declines in NBA history (T-mac and Francis). Through it all, this is the FIRST year in the past 5 where we haven't been in the postseason...be patient, trust in the leadership and don't read this guy's garbage.

 

Hey, Mr. Solomon, better get out of Houston ...

We fans know our basketball better than you do. We know how to think. Just because we love our team and choose to be patient with their loves doesn't mean we accept mediocrity.

Chronicle is the one who accepts mediocrity in you!

 

Cavs spent a lot of money, and they still don't have a championship. In fact, all that money they spent on mediocre players might drive LBJ out if they don't win it this year. FYI they didn't go from bottom feeder to contender thanks to guys like Varejao, Mo Williams and Big Z, 90% of their success is due to Lebron. Celtics spent so much on Luxtax, and now they can't wait to get rid of Ray Allen's overpaid salary.


Show me a direct correlation between spending over the tax and winning and maybe you have an argument. On the other hand teams like NY have spent millions on tax money and remained the joke of the league.

 

Absolutely, and if Morey left the Rockets, half the NBA owners would be ringing his phone.

 

The problem is this isn't WWE or music, this is real life. If the readers hate your guts and think you're an idiot, do you think patrons will buy the newspaper? Also what kind of access do you think the Rockets will give him from now on? He'll end up knowing as much as the average fan, and honestly without info he'll have to result gimicky pieces like these for his articles, and those can only last you for so long.

It's short-term gain, long-term failure. If he can't see that far ahead, I guess that's the reason why he'd write such an article in the first place.

 

Why da hell doesn't Queen Solomon move to Dallas or San Antonio then?

H-Town stand up 4 yo City!

Like Jeezy say, I Put on for my City!

H-Town boys don't play! Like our music boy we gone chop and screw up jackass Solomon!

Rise Up Red Nation and defend the team built by Hakeem, Sampson, Elie, Smith, Horry, Rudy, Hayes, Malone, Drexler, McCray, Chillcut, Herrera, Thorpe, Maxwell, Langhi, Boki, Francis, Mobley, Cato, Yao, McGrady, Brooks, Scola, Landry, Artest, Bullard, Barry, Novak, Lowry, and etc!

 

IDIOTA = IDIOT

 

His pudgy butt would be in Dallas before sunset!

I don't see why Solomon felt the need to call out the fans in his column (blog? Does it matter?). Fans don't have to "win." Watching basketball isn't their job. There's no need to "strive for excellence" as a basketball fan. You watch the games, you enjoy them, that's the sum of it. How, exactly, are fans supposed to "reject" mediocrity? Picketing the Toyota Center? Complaining on talk radio?

Until the middle of this year, the Rockets were paying two max contract salaries, including the richest contract in the league. Perhaps the Rockets mortgaged their immediate future by signing those two deals; it certainly didn't end up in a best-case scenario. Still, I don't think that's a great case for "accepting mediocrity." If it were, what to make of the half-dozen teams lining up to "accept mediocrity" this offseason by chasing the bumper crop of free agents?

Fact is, winning in the NBA is incredibly hard, particularly in the West. You need elite talent. Houston's elite talent couldn't stay on the floor. The ride has been bumpy, but I can't say it hasn't been compelling.

 

pathetic. i had to post a comment and let mr solomon know how i felt about this. cant wait til he approves it so i can see if he commented back on what i said. i doubt he will though.

 

If Rockets fans are willing to accept mediocrity, what about Chronicle readers?

 

agreed. I mean what the hell are us fans supposed to do--Cry about it, be angry. NO, that will not change our circumstances. You could say boycott the rox until they put a consistent, legitimate championship-contending product on the court, but true fans won't do that.

 

so basically Morey should fired right? He's done a horrible job.

 

lets see if the mavericks have done better than the rockets

Division titles:
Mavs 3
Rockets 4

Conferences Titles or you could say trip to the NBA Finals:
Mavs 1
Rockets 4

NBA Championships
Mavs 0
Rockets 2

So who is better?

And that article is awful! if you dont have your best players, of course you wont make the playoffs.

 

This is what i was going to say. Portland lost outlaw,rudy,pryz,and oden early while waiting for batum to get back. Then they traded blake and outlaw for camby. They had alot of injuries and still made the playoffs. I will say this to the end, if adelman had someone other than hayes, they could've made the playoffs. The fact chuck hayes is playing center or even worse, scola and landry, thats a very difficult thing for any coach to deal with.

 

Ok, this thread is officially in the running for 'Most Ignorance-Filled Thread of the Year'.

I am absolutely shocked and disgusted reading some of you so-called 'Rockets Fans' actually agreeing with jerome.

Not only should some of you brain-dead people who are buying into jerome's 'we accept mediocrity' stupidity turn in your red jerseys immediately, you should also turn in your 'NBA Fan' cards as well.

If you do not see the reality of how amazingly well the Rockets actually did this year *given their unavoidable limitations*, then not only are you NOT real Rockets fans, you can hardly be called basketball fans at all. You've certainly never PLAYED the game, never stepped onto a court as an undersized, clearly-outmatched player who bravely laced your Converses on and bellied up, and left everything out there on that blacktop. Maybe you won some, you probably lost a lot, but you gave it everything you had because you have heart and you love playing the game, and you are driven to compete, even though you know you're overmatched.

Get this through your thick skulls, and especially you jerome: had this been almost any other organization in the NBA, under these same circumstances, this team would have been lucky to win 20 games. What we saw this year from Adelman on down, from Brooks learning how to become an ice-water assassin, Lowry becoming a defiant wrecking ball, Bud determined to punish every team for passing over him, Scola becoming an absolute WITCH, Shane giving up his body every time you turn around, Chuck being unbelievably professional and strong in an impossible situation, Landry being awesome and lovable and growing in confidence by leaps and bounds, and then cruelly yanked away from us.. taking lumps over the season, having some success, some frustrations.. TMac being unwilling or unable to accept reality, Seeing a 7'6" hole where out anchor and foundation should be, dark times looming.. more injuries, uncertainty, speculation about trades.. all the while, fighting, striving, never giving up, winning should games we had no business winning, and sure, losing a few we should have won.. then Morey brings in the PERFECT perimeter compliment to Yao in 'Starvin Marvin' Martin, and Jordan Hill actually looking like a lottery pick and not an ex-Knick.. and not one but TWO lottery picks on the way from NY.. Jeffries NOT looking like a laughingstock 'high price to pay' for the Knicks being willing to take on TMac's contract..

..and you never watched this team playing against the TRULY mediocre teams, teams who had given up, whose coaches had no clue, who had scrubs at every spot, disorganized, lost, bumbling, apathetic.. and you DARE call our valiant but outgunned team mediocre like them?

Disgusting.

If jerome and those who agree with him had actually watched this team this year, he would have seen a team gaining confidence and experience, taking its lumps, but learning with every blow how to be stronger, and with the promise of the best center in the league returning next season, yet another draft coming up (with no doubt another Morey gem added to the mix), and don't forget about Maarty and Sergio as possible factors, a wealth of assets for likely trades.. then you would have seen this season not as mediocre, but as a necessary step in building a solid long-term foundation for prolonged excellence.

jerome sees failure and mediocrity. A true Rockets fan, a real basketball fan, sees what is really happening.

Now would it have been nice to make the playoffs? Of course, and it is perfectly fine to be disappointed that we missed out, and I definitely expect all the players to be unsatisfied with missing the playoffs. But it takes an infantile and sophomoric mind to equate that disappointment with 'mediocre'.

Now it's true, Morey can't fix over a decade of botched personnel decisions overnight. But you can see it happening, if you care to look, jerome.

 

mcgrady was traded, just accept it.