Rockets fans need to stop fantasizing about dwight howard!

Barkley, Drexler, Pippen, T-Mac all came here willingly. Miami has been in the league for a long time and nobody was running to play there before they had Wade. We are a good enough city that players will gladly come here if we have talent for them to play with.

I'm sorry but that trade sucks for us. Lowry/Lee/Dalembert isn't much greater if at all than Teague/Johnson/Horford. We would basically be making ourselves into a good but not great team like the Hawks are.

 

Heaven forbid pople have hopes and dreams that are out of reach...

Ever occur to anyone (OP included) that we cant get a superstar because of the constant and overwhelming vibe of pessimism that exists...?

I no longer live in Houston, family moved when I was a teen, but I was there for Luv Ya Blue and I was there for the first Rockets championship - the city rocked in support of the home team!

Nowadays... not so much.... attendence sucks and people claim "it's the economy"... but look at this board - a board devoted to The Houston Rockets! For every positive or optimistic thing written, there's at least a dozen bout how "scola sucks" or "Kmart sucks" or "Les sucks" or "treadmill of mediocrity" or "never gonna get a superstar" or "cant win a championship, so lets tank" or dozens of other bs crybabying...

You want a superstar? Give em reason to come to Houston. Looking at how this board treats its hometown athletes - I wouldnt.

You reap what you sow, people...

 

I think you won't realize how valuable kmart is until he is gone. Sure, we did well without him... for 2GAMES against BAD teams.

 

Another McGrady on our hands? WTH is that suppose to mean?

 

Being really good on the offensive end makes you a valuable player. KMart is a top 10 scorer in this league. Yes he is not a superstar and a terrible defender but that doesn't mean he doesn't have value and wouldn't be a great piece on a championship team. Using your logic Ben Wallace in his prime is not worth having because he is worthless on the offensive end.

 

Yep. Josh smith will be there to close it out. Err. I mean close the door for any chance of a come back late in the game. You take scoring for granted. Do you honestly think we would score enough points to win with lowry and lee being the only ones capable of scoring from outside 15 feet? We would be even more of a perimiter shooting team than we are now.

 

Did you even watch tmac? Is he a guy who never showed up in the 4th? Is 13 in 33 never showing up in the 4th. He got injured and his prime was shortened. I don't see kmart with back spasms and having to get microfracture surgery. I don't understand the comparison

 

You mean you don't want to wait until Kmart breaks down and injures himself and has to get surgeries? Can't control injuries. If we get josh smith, he comes here, and gets injured, that's another tmac situation isn't it?

 

Wow. Just wow. With tmac, we were contenders every year. We were 4th/5th seed almost all the time. It was the injuries with Yao and tmac every year that killed us. Did you see the lineup tmac played with outside of yao? The supporting cast now is much different. These two situations are much different

 

Comparing these two as if they are the same is absurd.

 

They won a title with him in the starting lineup.

Agreed. I'd like to move him before the trade deadline while he still has pretty good value. I'd just prefer to either get a superstar or someone really young plus picks.

 

Kevin Martin isnt the problem. I'd have to put him in the top 10 for SGs - for reality not 'potential'... he's not Kobe, but c'mon, the guy is a solid player. His defense isnt great granted, but he's a hlluva a scorer... Instead of shreddin the guy, why not focus on our areas that do need improvement (PF and SF)....

 

Add Dally and ppat to that and the magic might start talking