Bitter huh! Until Rockets make the right decisions they always be a mediocre to non contender playoff team. Jeremy Lin is a good point guard with potential to be better than every point guard on the rockets roster just the truth... Morey admitted he made a mistake so face the fact that he could flourish here. Pretty sure lots of people including you and i want the rockets to win the championship but that takes good decisions by management and great play not just going by statistal analysis.
The issue for me is that a GM/Coaches job is to find talent and to cultivate that talent to put the best possible product on the floor for us fans. It seems that the Rockets under Morey have made a lot of decisions based upon finances, or from a business perspective, rather than a talent based perspective. And if your organization is picking Flynn over Lin, strictly for that expiring contract, than it is truly not dedicated to winning. There were tons of scenarios which would have allowed them to keep the talent "Lin" over the contract "Flynn". This has been the Rockets weakness under Les Alexander and Daryl Morey, they are running a business, instead of running a sports team dedicated to winning. You always side with talent, not with $$$$, if you are truly dedicated to winning, IMO.
Saying that Jeremy Lin wouldn't succeed here is like saying Michael Jordan wouldn't have been a great player had the Rockets traded for him. Ridiculous.
Obviously, some of you don't even read what I posted... Jeremy Lin ain't Michael Jordan... Even if Morey wasn't a genius..or for that matter if he is, it doesn't have anything to do with Lin finding a club where he can play his best... I'm not bitter at all..I love the kid as many of the fans here do..my point is, guys who post in Game Threads are lazy to understand basic basketball..under those rules Lin would not have been what he is now..I am talking about him being a 3rd pg on our roster...
I like Lin, too, but it is bizarre to have so much LOF behavior here when he was just briefly with us in the preseason.
What's funny is that the Knicks wouldnt even take Lowry for Lin now. Linsanity is even on NPR this morning ha
After the next two games the Knicks might have the hardest schedule in basketball for the rest of the season. Dallas - 2, Atlanta - 3, Miami - 2, Boston - 2, San Antonio, 76ers - 2, Chicago -3, Portland, Indiana - 3, Orlando - 2, Clippers. That makes 22 of their last 35 games against some of the best teams in basketball. They might be much better with Melo back but if they aren't they will be underdogs in almost all of those games.
I wonder why people don't laugh at Dallas? They signed him after we waived him and they waived him too?
I don't know about the all-star comment but 100% true for the rest. You don't know what those DNP-CD players would be like unless they get steady burn time. Watching player grow is exciting and you even come to expect a few more losses so winning like the Knicks are makes it even more exciting. Oh well we will try and win all our games at all costs and bring another meh year to add to the Rockets calendar. Rocket 2011-12 - this is what happens when you don't rebuild.
No they didn't. Dallas got Lin in the summer league and offered him a 1 yr NBA deal after it, GS trumped the offer with more guaranteed money on a 2 year deal and by being Lin's hometown team. But every team really missed. If anyone saw this coming he would have had an offer at higher than minimum wage.
maybe because they're not rebuilding and fighting for the 8th seed at the same time....oh, and they just won a championship - they'll ride that political capital for some time.
