Laugh Bobcats all you want, but Rockets are the real laughing stock. Enjoy 100 more mediocre seasons ahead.
Nope not laughing at all. They put together the most epic fail season of all time and missed the one sure thing in the draft. I don't know quite what to think about it. Well Cho is going to have his work cut out for him.
The Rockets will have less mediocre seasons than the Bobcats will have pitiful seasons. Even with MKG or Robinson, that team is woefully thin and marginally NBA talented.
I'm sure they will select a prospect that Morey couldn't trade our entire team to obtain. I wish we could be stuck with caproom and the #2 pick in a great draft.
Yes. Tanking IS the answer! We have to put ourselves in a position where we are in control of our own destiny. Crossing our fingers and hoping that our mid-1st Round picks pan out into something special is doing just the opposite. Whether it happens by purposefully tanking or it just happens naturally, we need to position ourselves to be able to draft a guy like Tim Duncan, Dwayne Wade, etc... Consistently adopting this "Anything can happen" mindset will get us nowhere...and it HAS gotten us absolutely nowhere in the past. This "keep hope alive" attitude is all well and good...but not for an NBA team searching for its identity amongst its counterparts. Keep that attitude for your kid's Little League team. It doesn't belong in pro sports.
DaneB - you also mention Darren Collison at the very end of your post and how he helped out New Orleans when Chris Paul was hurt. That's precisely to my point...we don't need more guys who can 'help out'. We need guys like Chris Paul! Superstars. And the only way you get them is by having top picks in the Draft.
Well they are the front runners for the first pick next year. Tanking is not necessarily a one year strategy.
After Davis there is not a prospect without warts. Potential is a very expensive word. Average NBA player is much more likely.
You asked and I replied. I am entitled to an opinion and responded accordingly to your question which was a response and avoidance of my original question: The Bobcats have tanked. They have the number 2 pic. What year do you think this will equate to a Bobcat championship run? In respect to your other questions (is English your first language??): The GM is Morey The owner is Les We don't have a "star"
So to you tankers....in hindsight, if the Rockets "tanked" immediately after Yao went down. What draft picks would we have gotten? Would we have been bad enough/lucky enough to have landed a number?
If they tanked when Yao went down, like I wished they had, they probably would have ended up with a pick between #4 and #8 the last 2 years. They would not be bad enough to get a top 3, but the higher you are in the lottery, the more luck you could have with the greater odds, so you never know if they would have won the lotto or not. But let's say they stay in their slot. We could have someone like Demarcus Cousins, Greg Monroe, or Paul George from the 2010 draft. Maybe even Derrick Favors, but I'll leave trades out of this. In 2011, we could have had talent like Enes Kanter or Jonas Valanciunas. Like I said, I'll leave trade possibilities out of this, but keep in mind that these picks carry a lot of value in trading for a star player.
to fully panzer, you need a franchise changing player to be available. It's not just sucking but also luck, otherwise you're SOL stuck with hasheem or the dangerous michael beasley. the seasons to have panzer'd were the 2007-2008 and this season that just ended. Lowry and dragic provide as much impact as any lotto pick from 2009-2011. So we're not that far behind. We just need a big man that plays offense and defense. where is he?
So Morey and Les are still running the show in 2015 & 2016 and we still wont have a star, yet we're going to finals. GOTCHA! Oh and to answer your question, I couldn't tell you when the Bobcats are going on a title run. Unlike you I dont have a crystal ball. I just know with good management (seriously questionable) I like their chances of getting a cornerstone player picking high in the draft. If you're missing at the top of the draft then you need to fire your talent evaluators and start again.
