http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2012/05/rockets-number-didn’t-come-up-…-again/ There are plenty of moves left to be made this offseason, but the Rockets took two steps back Wednesday night. It wasn’t their fault. The balls didn’t bounce their way. First they ended up with the 14th pick. Again. That’s three years in a row one of their numbers failed to hit, right? (Checkout Feigen’s breakdown of players likely to be available in the middle of the first round.) Secondly, a team in their division, a team they were better than, got the No. 1 overall pick. While I’m not sure Anthony Davis is going to be the all-time great player many others expect, I do know that he helps the New Orleans Hornets out tremendously. In fact, aren’t they now better than the Rockets? Davis would have been a franchise-changer for the Rockets. Longtime Rockets fans know that this franchise hasn’t spent many years without a superstar on the roster. It is frustrating to be one of the have-nots. In many ways, the 2011-12 season was the worst one in awhile for the Rockets. It started with the vetoed Pau Gasol trade, included the huge surprise in that Jeremy Lin, who the Rockets didn’t think was good enough to play for them, was among the league’s most interesting stories for a time, and ended with a third straight early vacation when the playoffs began for the good teams. Heck, even the Rockets’ whiny, blind apologist fans (you know who you are) didn’t get to use that ridiculous saying, “Well, we would have made the playoffs in the East,” because the Rockets’ record wasn’t good enough to make the playoffs there either. They would have been hard to beat in the D-League playoffs though. Sad. These are dark days. Aside from their first three years in Houston, back when they were last in the league in attendance and played “home” games in San Antonio and Waco to draw crowds, the Rockets have had only one other three-year playoff drought. It should be interesting to see how Daryl Morey handles the draft. If he targets a certain player, this is a deep enough draft that teams who desire to move up should find it easier to do so than in recent years. One thing Morey and Co. do well is scout players. They just need to get away from the middle of the first round, where decent players are, into the singe digits, where future stars can be found. With a couple of mid-first round picks and some cap room to play with, this is an offseason in which Morey can shine. His life would have been made much easier with a lucky number, but he didn’t get it. Now he has to get it done in other ways. In Morey you trust?
That article is silly, imo. Huh? Because the 1.8% chance of getting a top pick didnt come through, we took a couple steps back? As if it was something that was expected to happen, but didnt happen. Ugh, those damn balls ruining our hopes and dreams!
The Rockets failed because they didn't get the #1 overall pick, and they got the pick they were expected to get? Brilliant writing as usual.
Not me - we already have a crowded roster of young players....now if you add 3 more of them, where do they get playing time? We just have too many players and not enough playing time. DD
Here's some more: That's usually the way it works, Jerome. The better teams don't usually get the No. 1 overall pick... .......
The old guys are wasting opportunities for our young players. I hate to say it but they are doing us more bad than good. Scola, Martin and cie need to get shipped out for future firsts.
Solomon has some serious beef with Morey. He has since he first got here. I don't know what Morey said to Solomon privately or publicly at some point, but he took it personal and has had a vendetta ever since. He's one of the worst writers in Houston sports, and is still here. There is a reason they call him Roach Solomon.
Solomon's on a par with Bill Ingram. Cherry-picks for reasons to dump on Morey, no matter how non-sensical. I hope he bothers to give Morey his due should we move up in the draft, but since we'll probably have to trade Solomon's boy Lowry to do so, he'll likely dump on Morey that we gave up "the better PG" for the (#6, #8, whatever) and didn't get any better and etc etc.
Is it just me or is this board better than most sports editorials? I can state the obvious as good as these guys who do it for a living. Yes, the Rockets have been and continue to be very unlucky. The Parsons pick might be the lone exception. They are in a deep hole and right now I don't see an easy way out. It may take years, and it has already taken longer than I expected. Probably is going to require a new owner and management team. I think our brain trust is clueless. What would I do? Very little that they have done for the last several years. If I had been the owner we would not have traded for Francis (too many issues), drafted Yao (giantism made him predictably injury prone), or traded for TMac (He had documented back problems). These were all high risk moves that didn't work and cost the franchise valuable time and resources. I would not have done MOST of the stupid and bloated CD contracts. JVG would have never coached here with all his NY cronies and has beens. Etc. Etc. I know, hind sight is perfect, but Ray Charles could have seen these things coming. Yes, I love the "Rockets," we have a great history and tradition. I haven't loved the Les Alexander era and will be glad when it is over.
Morey responded to one of his articles on twitter a couple years ago and ever since he's pretty much been a Rockets troll.
