Current injuries / salaries (basketball-reference): NBA salary cap history (from Wiki): The Rockets are missing more player-dollars to injury than the entire NBA team salary cap in any year before 2016-2017. This is unprecedented levels of top-heavy-roster-getting-screwed-by-injuries. Everyone take deep breaths.
you could count nene and ennis too who have missed a chunk of time with injuries too. there isn't another team going through what the rockets are this year
Yet people on this forum lose their heads after a loss. If we were healthy, we would be in some run right now, probably would of claimed the 2nd seed already.
Agreed. The other common comment is we should've never signed CP3 who is injury prone. For me it was worth the risk and am OK with him missing some games in the season as long as we're at a competitive seeding and he is healthy for the playoffs. We're just too dominant with CP3/Harden/Clint.
These injuries are frustrating, no doubt, but at least everyone is due back and could conceivably be healthy for the playoffs [knock on wood]. Still light years better than the cursed Yao/T-Mac era.
Ennis is injured too. Meanwhile the Warriors have 5 all-stars and get to play teams that are injured in the playoffs. As if the road to the finals weren't easy enough. Oh, I forgot they also have a finals MVP coming off the bench.
The injuries are crazy, but what's crazier is that they're all happening at the same time, leaving the Rockets pretty much devoid of manpower. Hopefully that means that everyone will recover around the same time as well, and the team will be healthy around the all-star break all the way til the end of the season
Lots of teams have injuries. Some are too cheap to pay for actually competent players to step into the fray.
This is not bad luck. I called it before the season and predicted people would treat this as misfortune. We consciously brought the oldest team in the NBA with little depth into a season we're supposed to contend. This is not bad luck, it's gross mismanagement. The likelihood of injury is mostly not luck. The timing is mostly luck. You would be a moron to not expect this season to be filled with more injuries than most other NBA teams. The team needs to play well and play hard and mostly management needs to get their **** together. We will not be healthy for the playoffs if this is the situation. People have this fantasy that we're going to go into the playoffs in shape, healthy and with great chemistry. Everything points to the opposite being more likely.
The basketball gods damned us to balance things out, otherwise we'd feast over the current whacked out West. To be honest we still are, even decimated as we are.
Capela is 24 and had a freak injury. If he's not injured then this thread doesn't exist. Gordon is 31. There isn't a written rule that when you turn 30 you will injure your knee every 15 games. (I'm pretty worried about that now, though.) Knight is a full on rehab story. We basically just took his dead weight salary because he was injured. Paul is the only real ticking timebomb for your "some players are old so I predicted everyone would get injured at the same time" argument. Why must you talk so condescendingly about luck and fate as a Rockets fan? We must revere the cosmic forces of basketball.
