It's about time we started to see the truth of the matter

you just want your super hero Ming to put up great stats, that's why you don't like Adelman's team basketball approach..

McGrady freaking sucks and he will be out soon
unfortunately, we will always be stuck with Yao "money-maker" Ming.. we will change coaches and supporting casts and point guards and power forwards to "build" around the most overrated player in the league, only to fail to achieve any sort of winning.. but hey, Yao must put up good numbers and have the ball on every position, so that on the 50% of the touches he gets in which he DOESN'T get stripped of the ball or dribble it off of his foot, he can hit 50% of the shots, and the other 50% of the 50% turnover-free touches (the ones he misses), we can blame on the biased evil officials that never give big Yao a break..

dang, I'm starting to hate this team

 

if nothing is clicking, maybe we should look back and see what has worked in the past?

the championship years are still so vivid in our memories. but this team, since yao came, has never really worked like the championship teams back then.

we were all cheering on the day we acquired mcgrady. now look back, i'm not so sure it was the best thing that could've happened to the rockets.

 

This sums up why the rockets will continue to suck for years to come. Make no mistake about it, Ming was not selected to be a dominant center. The NBA is not about winning anymore, its about making money. The owners make money, the coaches make money, and the players make money. The fans pay money to watch half-ass basketball.

Contracts, endorsements and everything else should be thrown out the window. If a team doesn't make the playoffs, then the whole organization should be penalized.

 

Pay them based on performance....



DD

 

Something's got to give.......

 

I wish the organization will wake up and realize when Les is about avoding Lux tax them "moneyball" is not a good approach either if it's about championships. Has this ever been effective in basketball besides trying to speed the game up to go international and trying for better T.V ratings. If you ask me internatinalism has taking over the truditional American game for the sake of better T.V ratings only it would seem.


Les and GM need to think the only way to bring a platform to winning under coaches designed for standard philosophy is to move players bigger then just contract concerns. Move Yao for top notch point guard to speed the game up makes alot of sence.

 

EXACTLY,

and this sums up why I've been consistently losing interest in this team and the NBA as a whole.. the next step for me is to stop paying nearly $1000 bucks a year for tickets, jerseys, TV sports package subscription, shoes, etc...

basketball fans can just watch college bball for now..even though college bball is slowly morphing into a Junior NBA, where once you made a name for yourself, u just sit back and relax and wait for the draft to get your multi-million dollar contract..

thank you David Stern for destroying our beloved game..

 

I second that...

 

NEED JVG!

 

Yao isn't that big of a problem. You can clearly say he is one of the best centers in the game. not many teams have that! The problem is the rest of the team, and us not taking advantage of this huge center. He's getting 13 shots a game. One year ago it was 15. Two years ago it was 18. That's a problem. Adelman is not giving him enough touches. He is still shooting at more than 50%. The more touches, the better.

 

u cant build a champion on cracked foundation. yao and mcgrady are soft players and even if tmac is gone yao cant lead team to anything but the lottery by himself. hes a proven loser who is already past his prime and was never really a superstar just an allstar who puts up nice numbers. yao cant lead and cant deliver on consistent basis. when tmac dont play or he sucks like now the team tanks with yao being the only go to guy

iam not expecting much from rox i only them to make playoffs and get past first round or to western conf and i think if healthy thats realistic since the west is very avg this year and there are no great teams around outside of lakers

if rox will ever amount to anything in yao/tmac era it will be this year only. there is no hope for the future with them around. we need to cut our losses and trade both after this season or keep yao and get a real superstar to lead the team and build around with yao as second banana. we ask too much of yao and he can never deliver cause he is 7'6" softie who plays hard and gets tired quick

 

For some reason, the Rockets defense suck under Adelman even with Artest in the lineup. I just don't understand it...there are games with even Battier and Artest and i am seeing opponents taking shots without being challenged. And iam thinking that ain't right. Because under JVG, you would not see this shyt happened i think.

 

its mostly the coach mentality because he has no emphasis on defense and its showing. rox have never been this bad on defense. layups after layups from teams with no inside players. its ridiculous

the first year of adelman coaching was only a carryover from jvg mentality on defense. problem is offense sucks on this team too so they have no identity and no focus and no direction

 

and game by game.

 

you build around a superstar, not an allstar, and that's what Yao really is. Since the Rockets are stuck with Yao "money-machine" Ming as well as tracy's huge contract and fragile body, change of coaching staff wont sovle anything. guess we are doomed!

 

Well if he caught the ball he would have more shots than that.

 

Very well said.
Anyone who has followed the Rockets even with limited BB IQ should realize that by now. Too bad it is not very well received.
I have given up arguing with those guys. Just stop by to give a five star to show my support

 

Adelman is not running his Sacremento offense in Houston, he is using Yao fine....our defense however...ugh.

DD