Guys, Is there anyway that you'll can start a Chat session on CC.net with some of the Rockets coaches and players. We could have one every two weeks, or something like that. We all know that this is the ultimate fan site and this is just another suggestion to take this little thing we have here a little further. I know that a chat maybe slightly hard to do, but we could do something similiar, like submit questions, and any one of the coaches or player chooses to answer 20 of them. This would be the ultimate fan interaction with the team. I know there are several people who are close to the Rockets organization, who could put this across to the Coaches and Players. Well, atleast I hope so, considering that many have "inside scoops" on trades!!! -tariq ------------------
Having forum placement difficulties today, tariq? ------------------ Five to one baby, one and five...no one here gets, out alive.
Tariq, Rudy and some of the players are posting all the time, right here in this forum. You just don't have high-enough security access to see their posts. You must either be an admin or have over 3,000 posts accredited to you. Why do you think Bob* is doing overtime to reach the "insider" plateau?
Sliding by on technicalities will get you a technical kick in the technical booty. ------------------ Five to one baby, one and five...no one here gets, out alive.
I like this idea. Chat is probably not doable, but... Perhaps a weekly Q&A with either the coach, his assistants, and maybe some players - when schedules permit? This is a good idea. If successful, it could cut down some of our blind speculation... And give us blind ones more to speculate about. It really is a good idea in principle. Thank you Tariq for suggesting it. I can't help but think that there's a way to make it work. Clutch? ------------------
Heypee - Oh... pull back the curtain an inch, show us the goods, and then tell us we got a thousand miles to go?!? Mean SOBs. Alrightythen... ------------------
Potential Questions could be like this: Hakeem, did you really say that? Hakeem, what did you mean when you said that? MoT, why don't you rebound? Kenny, do you ever practice finishing the play? Rudy, whats with the ISOs? Mooch, whats your next hairdo? etc etc.... Clutch...work on it!!! ------------------
I'm sure Stern and NBA.com would have something to say about that. Those kind of things are usually exclusive to NBA sponsored sites. Maybe Clutch can get Bullard, Norris, Langhi or Collier to answer some things but I'm sure they too are not allowed. ------------------
So in other words, everytime Rudy or Steve speaks to the media or gives an interview to ESPn, SI etc, they have to seek permission from David Stern? Thats a load of bull. Any lawyers on this site? Can we sue Stern & the Mafia for Freedom of Speech? ------------------
Sounds good. Let me have my lawyer look at your proposal and he'll get back to you. ------------------ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve immortality by not dying. - Woody Allen
Excellent. Shall we book on 9:30 then to renegotiate the terms? Sorry, that's the Ultimate Ch.. er, um, the lawyer in me talking. Sorry. ------------------ [This message has been edited by treeman (edited December 06, 2000).]
It's nice to see that a treeman and Sam Cassell can put aside their differences and kiss and make up over a breakfast! ------------------ Five to one baby, one and five...no one here gets, out alive.
Lawyers don't 'kiss'. They negotiate. I'm really not sure how they do that. I think it involves talking and $... I have no $, and I don't talk much, except to ask for food. Can I go now? I'm not a lawyer. Can't speak for the one who calls himself Sam Cassell... ------------------
Are you making fun, Pimp? If you weren't a fellow Bellaire c/o 93 guy... ------------------ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve immortality by not dying. - Woody Allen
Goddam lawyers. Count on them to tell you "It doesn't work that way"... I hate lawyers. In this case they'll tell you that you (as a player/coach/assistant coach) are liable for every printed word, and should have a (guess what) lawyer present when online. You can't shake your dick without their permission (which makes pissing hard), so you have to have one on retainer at all times... I hate lawyers. ------------------
What a coincidence. We lawyers hate trees, men, and all manner of man-tree, tree-man hybrids. I don't know why a player or coach couldn't do an on-line chat on a fan site, unless its prohibited in their contract. I can't see how its really any different than a standard interview. ------------------ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve immortality by not dying. - Woody Allen
Have you ever heard of an interview that a lawyer didn't have a hand-in? At least, for a major sports figure? Wherever there's $, there's a laywer sniffing behind. ------------------
