THE WEAK LOSE AND THE STRONG WIN-now this is the best follow up we could have following taking the fakers to 7. This team is balls out everynight, you want the tank-go ahead and stick your own head in the toilet........I take more playoff experience for team.
I'm not going that far, but I do have concerns about John Wall, and not about his playing ability but his "franchise saving" ability because of his attitude, as seen in the Mississippi St game (I think it was that one) towards the end of the game some fans threw a couple water bottles on the court and while walking off the court Wall was throwing his arms up to egg them on. Just some immaturity, nothing that can't be changed, but I feel that when Lebron came out, he was very mature (although child-like in enthusiasm for the game) for his age, I'm concerned about Wall's maturity. However, I still hope he ends up in the East so we don't have to deal with him as much.
Oh, so basically benching Scola in his contract year. I'm sure he'll want to resign with us. Good plan!!!
We could easily look at the salaries of comparable PFs in the league and make Scola a fair offer based on the production he's shown this year.
Play hard, play to win, and make the playoffs, but play those youngsters. Force feed them. Let them learn the system. Find out what they got. Making the playoffs is gravy.
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I thought Adelman was behind the Brooks pick. Didn't he said he seen a lot of Brooks since he lives in PAc-10 country
I am not that high on John Wall either. He is very, very good at what he does well... which is athletically running the floor and attacking the basket. But the rest of his skills lag behind. He doesn't have a good jump shot, which will limit his game significantly on the NBA level unless he can develop it a lot more. His slow release and inconsistent outside shooting allow defenders to play off him and also keeps him from being as effective off screens. He also isn't very good at running a half-court style offense, makes bad passes too often resulting in turnovers or drives into defenders and misses opportunities to kick it out to an open shooter. He does have a lot of potential to correct these problems, and obviously he has the kind of innate talent you can't learn. Upside is not the same as realized potential, though, and as it stands now I do not believe he will be able to step in and be a star. Will he develop into one? Maybe, he has a very good chance... but the hype he has been getting is unrealistic and I suspect is partly drawn from his flashy highlight real style of play.
Getting a Kobe Bryant is the exception rather than the rule. Especially now that High School Players cannot enter the draft. Can you get an All-star, a tier-2 or tier-3 player with a pick from 11 to 19? Sure, once in awhile. But the Go-to, championship-leading players rarely fall that far. If you don't believe me, this article actually did the math, http://www.nbadraft.net/mcchesney007.html
So let me see if I get this straight, you think you're a real Rockets fan because we want our team to win, and make the playoffs, while you want to teach our young players how to lose? Makes sense. Nothing says "real fan" like rooting for your team to lose and teaching the future of your franchise to not to compete hard because they're not good enough.
Why do the Clippers suck, why has it taken the grizzlies years to only moderately not suck, why does New York suck. They all have had lottery picks over the last few years. The Rockets have made the playoffs nearly every year, but get better each year. A team with a losing mentality one year will keep it the next.
Absolutely wrong. Those three teams are perennial losers b/c they were poorly managed. Do you think we'd be anywhere close to where we are now if Isiah were running the show?
