FVV injury - Dropping out of Top 3 Steven Adams surgery - Dropping out of Top 3 in the West Deadline no deals - Stone mocking fans with 'Not Our Year' - Laughing stock among pretenders Udoka being arse, Sengün being inconsistent, Tari playing arse, Bari with the January shet - No bench Get Higher 77 - Michael Dickerson Trading for KD - was a trade-off, time line forked up. Tilman in Sicily, nowhere to be found or seen, only Patrick and his siblings staying here.
In the early 2000’s, Ime Udoka was looking around and formulating ideas on how fast a team needed to be to win championships.
I have always hated this argument. I enjoyed the Astros in the non-WS years during their run. I enjoyed the Rockets the Rockets MDA era of the Rockets, even the first year when Harden looked like he just quit in the Spurs series. I also for the most part enjoyed last year's run. Because the end of those seasons still felt like "playoffs can be a crapshoot and there is always next year." If fans are all about championship or bust, the attendance of most arenas in the NBA would be half empty. But there's a difference between coming up short and things looking bad, like the final Dwight year or the Pippen year. Both these teams made the playoffs, but you know things are going down hill fast. This year gives a similar vibes. Let's say optimistically they make the 2nd round and get beat by one of the Spurs or the Thunder. Then what? All the old, injured, and not good players are still on the roster. There's no draft pick to add young talent. KD will be 38, and we still wouldn't know if Sengun or Amen can finally expand their game. If they don't make a huge run this year, everything points to next year being just as bleak unless they have insanely good injury luck and recovery luck from key players.
Thats not how it works with the Rockets. Once we make the playoffs we're in it. Its more realistic that we'll get Giannis than to have a bleak season next year
FVV going down. If we're first in the Conference or a couple games behind I believe KD keeps his mouth shut. I at least had hope we could get the guys some valuable playoff experience until KD's debacle. This season is now a complete loss. IF we don't flame out in the play-in, which is still a distinct possibility, the ceiling is a first round gentleman's sweep.
Should've signed a guard instead of DFS, then say develop Reed? Sounds contradictory. Problem with FInney is he forgot how to shoot. His 3PT% is down 12+ points from last 2 seasons. Blame coaching, scheme, or whatever but 25% shooting from a 3&D guy was never going to work.
Barely cracking 2nd round and someone goes out again, probably at the cusp of getting swept and winning 1 or 2 games.
