New Pops to the Rox rumor (UPDATE: Confirmed Rockets reach verbal agreement)

Everybody...not just the Lakers.......No national televised games? what? In Houston? Whoop that a** Rockets!

 

This better not be the medium news that Morey said he might have.

 

I agree with that we deserved major props. The Lakers overwhelmed every team with their talent level. They could turn it up and down during the series and played poorly in away games. We forced them to 7 games and without their homecourt advantage they would be lost.

 

nah that was a while back when he announced the signing of andersen....I might need to start following him on twitter myself cause I have a feeling something a whole lot bigger than medium is about to happen within the next month. Hopefully sooner so whoever we trade for can start practicing together for chemistrys sake. But ofcourse if its Landry that'll be traded we will have to wait another month.

Anybody that has seen Pops play (not just highlights), does he seem quick enough to guard the sf position and shooting guards? Would guarding shooting guards be pushing it? If so, I would rather see Battier go than Landry. I wouldn't mind seeing them play on the court at the same time.
Battiers contract is exactly the amount that Sessions is looking for. I want him to be nice and happy!

 

And won two of those games (clears my throat) w/out Tracy and Yao...and with Ron Artest not showing up at ALL (How ironic that he's now playing for them now)....but now all of a sudden everyone's writing off our season...incuding Rocket fans...after adding the main player that beat our a** in the playoffs....after Morey added a decent center without giving up any of his trade pieces (genious) AND.....to be continued after the next acquisition...

 

Honestly it could be a blessing in disguise as it always was. We have it in our hands to prove the critics wrong. I am tired of the media.

 

Why does taking LA to seven games deserve props? I mean every game they lost was by a large margin and the lakers never felt threatened. There isn't any ribbon or trrophy to say we almost did it. Go look at the Adelman kings when they kept losing to Sa or La. When did they brreak through? They didn't. They went down just like the nash led suns and no one cares the magic lost a game they shouldn't have that turned that series. All that matters is La has the trophy and since the yao-tracy era, they're no closer to a ring than when wesley was playing sg and ryan bowen was on the roster.

 

They lost twice by a large margin and they won twice by a large margin in those final four games of the series. Neither the Nuggets or the Magic "threatened" them as much as the Rockets did. Further, the Rockets did this while getting nothing out of Ron Artest, Yao, or Tracy McGrady (not to mention their backup C being out) those games.

Unless you just have a strong, irrational dislike for the team, why not give them some credit?

 

I am a huge rockets fan, but that was last yr. What they do has nothing to do with taking La to 7 games. Just like last yr everyone kept bringing up 22 in a row, but it meant nothing in terms of the ring. I guess because I didn't grow playing sports where the last place team got a big trophy as if they won also. The goal is the ring, not taking the champs to 7 games in the 2nd rd. The hawks took the celtics to 7 games the yr before, but I didn't see anyone blowing their trumpet.

Look, getting past the 1st rd was cool, but its not like all of a sudden the conf finals are next, then the finals the yr after.

 

Alright. I'll try to convey my perspective with an analogy:

Say your kid is participating in a race, and midway through he pulls something. But instead of quitting or coming in at the end of the pack, he gutts it out and somehow finishes amongst the leaders (though not in first place).

Would you not be proud of your boy? Or would say he's a loser and that the spirit and courage he showed means nothing because he didn't a gold medal?

I know its a cliche, but sports isn't just about winning and losing. It's about teamwork, work ethic, concentration, and pushing oneself in the face of adversity. What the Rockets did last year, and even the year before, typifies those qualities and deserves the respect of any true sports fan.

 

Pops was the best player on the Raptors last season.

 

What are you smoking?

Signed,
Chris Bosh.

 

Just an awesome post... LeeBig is raped again...

 

Have to say, I agree with alot of what you say alot of the time. Not to be to kiss ass but you have become one of my favorite posters. People say something positive about the team they love just to have it dumped on. This is not a dig on lee because there are times I really like his perspective, but I just don't get the negativity from people sometimes.

 

Actually Pops isn't bad at all. He is a player that can make a play off the ball which most of our players lack the ability to. He would make a good compliment to Luis. And he brings a bit of toughness down low granted we are unsized though.

 

Durvasa, kids vs high paid athletes is not the same thing. As a parent of 3 soon to be 4, I let my kids know the same way you compete in sports, you have to compete in the real world. When you go on a job interview and don't get it, they're not going to give you a pat on the back and take you to mcdonalds for ice cream. Furthermore, you're bank isn't going to show you any sympathy when the house note is due. Sports is about winning and if you don't believe that, why do you think coaches are fired and players traded.

La has been the best franchise in sports since the 70's. Reason why is because they don't take moral victories. They try to win the title every yr and don't make excuses. Every move for the most part is geared to the ring.When they see guys maxxed out on potential and not growing, they trade them. I won't bet, but if they had 2 guys as injured late in their careers as yao and tracy, they would be ex lakers. When they went out in the first rd 2 yrs in a row and was rolling the next yr before bynum got hurt, they didn't sit back and relax, they got gasol.Some teams make a way while others make excuses. One team has 16 rings while the rockets have 2. I don't blame morey for all because les has a lot to do with it also. Maybe I see the end game of mediocrity and excuse making. I didn't hear the joy of laker fans when they took the suns to 7 games like the rox fans have expressed for doing the same to La..

 

You would have if they had gotten out of the first round first and they did that without Kobe Bryant. They had the best player in the series, perhaps the league, available for them all 7 games, and they lost in the first round.

 

Pops > Bosh, and I said this before we signed him.

 

There is a saying that if you can't change the people around you,change the people around you. If Kobe broke down as much as Yao or Tracy for the length they do, he wouldn't be in a Lakers uniform. The only reason Bynum is still a Laker is because he's 21,a 7ft, and still have upside. If they were to put him on the market, they could probably get more for him than anything the rockets could get for anything they have. There isn't a single team in the history of the nba that would continue to build around 2 guys like yao and tracy.

 

I was too young to follow the Rockets before L. Alexander took over, but since he's been owner, you can't tell me that he hasn't tried to put pieces together to win a championship every year. I can admit, and we all know that he screwed up when acquiring Charles Barkley, and Pippen (who gave us nothing) and trading away Cassell and Horry...but yet still he did that because he thought it gave them the best chance at winning. The Lakers have been great for a while, but they have some great players...not to take anything from the staff that got the players there...I don't know if you're too young to know, or too old to forget but the Lakers in the Magic and Kareem era were far more superior than pretty much all of the teams in the west..

You can't tell me that no other owner or GM would have gambled on Yao and Tracy for this long....Its very rare to have one of the best centers, and wing players in the whole league...what are the odds of BOTH of your best players are hurt damn near every year together....while they're in their prime....
I don't know what made them think that Wesley, Barry, Howard, and Bowen in the regular rotation would get them a championship though. A better supporting cast when those two were healthy in the post season would have gotten them there....if not then very close.