Patience People, Rome Wasn't Built in a Day and Neither Will This Rebuild

Corrosion · Oct 27, 2021

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Amen on that brother. I remember you being here back in the dark ages - I mean hell look at your user name - it is a combination of Rocket players from that era (Steve Francis, Eddie Griffin, Cuttino Mobley, Mo Taylor, Kelvin Cato). I have been a Rocket fan ever since they drafted Dream out of UH in '85 and suffered through many years where they were always a playoff team but never were able to put it all together (outside of the one year that they lost to the Celtics in the finals - a Celtics team that was one of the best in NBA history). Now you talk about spoiled? How about having a team that has a once in a generational talent in Olajuwon and future Hall of Famer, go to the Finals early in his career, and then be stuck in neutral for many seasons after that. Hakeem had been with the Rockets for almost 10 years before he led them to back to back NBA titles. Carroll Dawson (the GM at the time) tried to extend this window as long as possible by first bringing in Drexler and then later Charles Barkley. We all remember the Scottie Pippen experiment or disaster?? Oh wait, not all of us do (not talking to you steddinotayto) but these posters like juanming, fattz, and others. I remember even forking out some serious change for NBA League Pass to watch Steve Francis, only to see him miss like 30 something games (that was the last time that I did that!).

There was even a post that I did on Kelvin Cato for goodness sake that got recognized by Clutch as a good post on the front page. Those were the days. We have been too spoiled around here by the recent success of past Rockets teams. I admit that no one was more frustrated than myself that we couldn't get to the finals with Harden here (I still think that if Chris Paul hadn't gotten hurt in the WCF, we would have made it). Maybe it is the owner and as a result, Darryl Morey saw the handwriting on the wall as did Mike D'Antoni. With their departures, it made it easier for Harden to force his way out.

From everything that I have seen on Tilman, I am not impressed and frankly quite underwhelmed. However, I am willing to give the guy a chance and I think it is too soon (just one game) to pass judgment here. Let's see how the season progresses and develops and re-evaluate at the end of the year. I think we will see a lot of changes and good stuff come about and we can look back at this thread and laugh at some of the reactionary posts.
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Being completely honest , joining the bandwagon the year Akeem was drafted was the beginning of the best of times ....

The real dark days were mostly before that , pretty much anything before 1980 - then the year they traded Malone to Philly & the two years before Akeem where they won 14 & 29 games.
I don't know if there was anything more depressing as a Rockets fan than that Malone trade other than maybe that 86 team that got broke up with Wiggins & Lloyd and their drug use. Trading Harden away hasn't felt near as painful .... maybe because that situation had run its course and there was no way left to improve the team around him. Big difference in the salary cap era in that aspect.

Since then CD , Steve Patterson & Morey had kept the team highly competitive cept for a couple of years. They always seemed to be able to find a new star to build around after Hakeem. Francis - Yao , McGrady , Harden ...

J.R. · Oct 31, 2021

On a micro-level, observers of the Houston Rockets, particularly fans, are already harboring their own overreactions. Let’s go through some of the more well known ones.

Rockets Overreactions
1. The Rockets shouldn’t have picked Jalen Green
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2. It’s time for Houston to move on from Stephen Silas
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3. Alperen Sengun is the next Nikola Jokic
[…] Like when fans compared Kevin Porter Jr. to James Harden last season, you’re probably going to be disappointed when you compare a young player to a hall of famer right off the bat.

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