Slipping out of the playoffs fast, is it time to panic?

Then it must really suck for fans like you who want to trade anyone and everyone after every loss.

 

If the Rockets make the playoffs it will be by the smallest of margins, and then we'll have the fun of watching them get pulped in the first round.

YM probably plays fewer minutes than any other starting all star, and SF is as erratic as ever. CM runs hot and cold, JJ has cooled off, and BN has dropped off the radar screen entirely. Cato remains the only pleasant surprise this season, and that truely is a frightening thought.

The Rockets are only winning though tough D, or whenever someone on the team gets hot with the outside shooting.

The Rockets need a major shake up, and no one should be untouchable, not even SF or YM.

Raven

 

No.

Panic is only appropriate once a new coach has "his players" to fit "his system" and it still doesn't work. I do see that it's time to recognize that the current personnel is inconsistent with the system... and moreover, that the current players don't compliment each other.

 

Raven:

Incidentally, Cato is not a pleasant surprise.

He's doing what we already knew he could - rebound and play defense. However, his offense is so utterly putrid that it plays right into the hands of other teams trying to make it tough on Yao.

I think we'd have at least 2 more wins if Cato could hit 10 foot jumpers - a skill every NBA player should have.

 

This has been done to death, but Kurt Thomas can hit a mid-range jumper, is in that mold, has an opt-out at the end of the year and is available for a good PG (not Moochie).

 

Well, he's averaging 8 boards in 29 minutes a game this year, compared to 7 in 26 minutes two years ago. 6 boards in only 17 minutes a game last year. Where's the surprise? It's surprising that he still starts, I'll give you that.

 

LOL. We might have been better than them before they got Bonzi, and even that was questionable. Right now, they have better personnel, better bench, and so far a better coach.

You mean the same team that swept us last season and has already stomped us this year? The same team that has far superior talent on their roster? LOL.

The Rox won't even MAKE the playoffs, much less get a 6th seed. You must be on some strong hallucinagen.

 

The rox should tank so we can get Emeka Okafor. Steve can fake an injury. And than evrry1 will realize this was his team bc we lost so many games.

 

Sane:

That's completely assinine.

You're now equating the "surprise" of Cato with him getting minutes? That's meaningless, as far as Cato goes. What's surprising, is that JVG gives him that many minutes.

He's done what he already has: above average rebounding and decent defense. Neither statistically, nor intangibly, has he supplied anything more than he did last year.

He gets more time to be a slightly-above-average defensive but horrible offensive player. That's it.

Don't give him credit for more minutes... when the coach is only playing him because he's willing to sell his soul to defense.

 

But it's not a matter of opinion.

Relevant area of discussion: The value of Cato's contribution.

Sane's assertion: Cato contributes a surprising amount because he plays more than expected.

That's meaningless to the relevant topic. Therefore it's assinine. The content value of it is irrelevant to its value to the discussion.

That's not "opinion:" it's an issue of relevancy.

If you want to argue "Cato's above-average defense outweighs his complete and total ineptitude on offense," then that's a matter of "opinion" relevant to the discussion. The content of the statement is relevant, regardless of whether it's well-founded. Tell me that, and I won't call your statement assinine. I'll disagree, and "not think much" of it. But that's not what you did.

 

Yes, but who have we played? More than half our wins have come against the eastern conference and we haven't played many games against the western conference elite (the 4 or 5 teams that everyone knows will be at the top of the standings by the end of the season). The schedule to come is going to be a lot tougher than the schedule played in the first quarter of the season and that is cause for concern.

 

The Rox are the Titanic and the iceberg is just ahead!

 

The Rockets have played every team on that list with a resulting record of 7-9. The sky isn't falling.

 

Sorry,

With the exception of the Lakers and 7-12.

 

Sorry,

That record's still not right. 7-10.

 

pgabriel, you are shooting 33%. We should start you at PG or PF.

 

I will be very happy if the Rox makes No.8 this year. I don't think the Rox is an underachieving team. Even on paper, our roster is not much more talented than: LAL, SA, SAC, DAL, MIN, POR, PHX and hell, even the Grizzlies.