We have the next 5 - 6 years to contend for a tittle and I don't know why we are wasting a season like this one. We were very lucky to land Yao and T-Mac, or we would've been stuck with streetballers Francis and Mobley for the next 5 years. The Organization has to make this team better any way they can. If it means go over the salary cap, so be it. We are starving for a ring, and we have the superstars to do it. We just need some right role players.
Can Yao and T-mac by themselves win a title. I think the answer is no. In today's NBA, you have to have that 3rd scoring threat that can give you 10-20pts. a night. Then, we would be unstoppable. It just seems like Yao and T-mac are going to go through 5-6 yrs. together being an early exit from the playoffs because management can't seem to get the right mix of players in there to gel with the two superstars. Don't get me wrong, I do believe in the guys we have now, but there will come a point when these offseason moves must be questioned.
this thread... premature. the heat have a window, suns have a window, we have a 10 year skylight for cryin out loud. weve got pleeeeenty of time.
Sounds good in theory...but when the team's main off season acusition is a scrub like Swift...it just doesn't work does it?
I agree, I have been saying this for a long time. On one of the Jason Kidd threads last summer, way before T-Mac's bad back became obvious, I worried out loud that the bad back might drastically shorten our championship window. I wanted us to start thinking that the future is now. I was against the Weatherspoon cut, because Spoon's $6m contract could have been traded for some major help later this season. I wanted us to pursue Jason Kidd, and damn the luxury tax, because the championship window could already be closing on us.
jason kidd was too much of a question mark. He just came off of surgery and is 34 years old. If yao could play to his potential then this group would due. Look at lakers they did it 3 times. The window seems like 3-4 yrs.
The biggest problem that I see so far is this team keeps trying to find 30 something year old veterans to place as the role players around Yao and T-Mac. These older players will only be here for 1 or 2 years so any chemistry will have to be redone after they are gone. I don't believe the Rockets have the right strategy for success. You don't want to bring older players in all the time because they are just rented. We need a couple of younger players that will be here a few years and can develop some chemistry with our stars without having to worry about retirement.
That was the best time to go after Jason, you see -- his price would be lowest exactly when everyone was questioning whether he would recover.
Gary Payton, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller, Karl Malone, etc. all thought they had plenty of time too.
