Yeah, that's when Rockets have been a mediocre team for 20 years with a much better team management and 1 total national TV appearance in 5 years. Too bad for them and their bad management. But worse for Rockets and their good management.
Yeah I read what he said, and last time I checked PROSPECTS in basketball means "young developing player" and Durant and Westbrook still count in that categorie! and I know he meant prospects as in assets...
Wait for 20 years after the championship this team is competing for one while all this team with great prospect are still the same including the OKC, the Jazz, etc etc.
so Rockets fans should love current mediocrity because Rockets were great twice in 44 years' of history.
Let see the mediocre teams in the league. since 1995 Orlando = 0 Phoenix = 0 New York= 0 Nets = 0 Dallas = 0 Detroit = 0 Grizz = 0 Rapt = 0 OKC/Seattle = 0 Nola = 0 Jazz = 0 Sac = 0 Clipp = 0 Warriors = 0 Philly = 0 etc etc. So if the Rockets have been mediocre and will be Mediocre just like 90% of the league at least I wan them to play winning basketball and going to the playoff even if it mean an early exit.
yes if everyone else are defining mediocrity in your wise way. I could be the second richest person in the world if I divided the world into Bill gates and everyone else. Bill Gates is the richest. Every else is the next richest. I am with 99.999% of the world population as the 2nd richest even though I am jobless.
A little melodramatic, but I tend to agree with the majority of your sentiments (albeit at a more tempered level). The biggest concern of mine has been the one you noted about being destined to mediocrity- that our team, as currently composed, will remain in limbo between below average to above average. Never good enough to become an elite team (but good enough to compete with them on a given night), and never bad enough to garner a top 5 pick needed to become elite (not that I'd want us to suck...its just thats how this team got Yao, and Hakeem, along with the rest of our superstars).
Rockets will win tonight in Denver. Rotation of Battier/Lee/T-Will will hold Carmelo to under 30 pts and JR Smith to under 25. Patterson/Hill will shut down NeNe completely. Scola will DOMINATE Kenyon Martin, as usual, and have him in early foul trouble. Kevin Martin will have problems scoring with Afflalo up in his grill all night long, but he is too good at getting to the line and will get his usual 20-30 pts. Budinger needs to play like he did against Toronto and hit some open shots to make up for his incapacity to play defense. Lowry can play up on Billups and hopefully not make it easy for Chauncey to post him up. Brooks will outshine Lawson.....MARK IT!!!Terrence is going to get 12-18 minutes tonight to show he can D-UP on Smith or Carmelo. It's going to be a good game, but Rockets should win by 7. If Battier frustrates Melo early, there will be no need...but tonight is the night that Terrence shows us all why we have been hyping him up. REAL DEAL T-WILL COMING TO DENVER TONIGHT!!!!!!
Not true. We got Francis, Pippen (yeah, I know), McGrady, Artest, Barkley, Drexler, etc through trades/FA signings, and we can do something similar again... I don't know why so many people are always so freakin short sighted and doom-and-gloom after every loss. We have a good, young team with a lot of depth, a good coach, and an amazing GM. We definitely have a lot of opportunity for improvement, even if we don't do it through the draft (which we could still do even if we don't play badly enough to get a high pick). Many (maybe even most) of the best teams out there now and in the recent past pulled off amazing deals via trade or signings to pull their teams out of the ashes. Dallas, Boston, LA, Miami, to name a few right now. That plus our team is never as bad as people tend to think after a game like last night's.
I actually think you are right, sort of stuck in "average," 41-41 range, marginal playoff team, crummy lotto position, not encouraging. The question is, what is the potential of the young talent we have. Is this a huge assortment of role players or is there a star or two in the bunch?
Everything OP said is true. But so was the pots about the fact that even the best teams right now like Dallas and Orlando still have not won a championship. You can add teams like Phoenix and Cleveland who just recently were juggernauts. But we're not even Dallas or Orlando. We're not even Utah. So as long as the Spurs, the Lakers, the Heats of the world keep winning championships, we need to get closer to them and not farther which is what we're doing right now. Even if it means we don't win a championship like Dallas or Utah.
The question is . . .are we better off now than we were a few years ago? 2006-2007: 52-30, Finished 3rd in NBA Southwest Division Alston Battier J. Howard McGrady Mutombo Yao Hays Head Wells Padgett etc. Gundy Probably not better off. Are we worse off? Absolutely not. Stuck in the middle? I'd rather go to bat with the current roster and future flexibility than the end result of any of the rosters over the past ten years (excluding 07-08). imop, the current roster is the result of righting a sinking ship that began with Charles Barkley and ended with T-Mac.
Sorry for using your logic. Your logic is that Houston is and will be mediocre. But Houston is in the category of pretenders (Good but not great) So 90% of the league is mediocre then. Only a handful of teams have a real shot to a title. Now a Healty Spurs, Mav and Lakers in the west along with a Healty Miami Boston and maybe Orlando after the trade and maybe maybe Chicago, the rest don't have a real chance as Houston to win it all. In five years only Miami, the Lakers and maybe Orlando if they can keep Howard and the rest of players have a change of competing at a high level with the core they have now. For the rest of the teams they will have to get better via trade. Even with an Amare, Durant, Rose or Blade they will have to add a real good superstar or a couple of stars with a lot of solid players around to challenge Miami in the East or Lakers in the West. I prefers to keep competing while getting a lot of young good players to either attract a superstar, or make a blockbuster Celtics type of deal. Because this rebuilding crap idea without a young superstar to build a team around is garbage. And there will be a lot of other teams who will suck every year to get a player to a draft. I trust Morey and this organization to get it done and build a team for the future. And Morey record indicate he is one of the guys who can do it.
