Depends on How the nba officiates the finals. If they allow Detroit to be bad boys and hack or will They synthesize SGA with that whistle.
I'm watching No Way Jose against the 76ers and Stone absolutely FAILED to not offer scraps for this guy. Dennis would have been nice , though pricey, but we had talks with NO about Jose and Stone (and whomever is in his ear) could not get a simple deal done. The rockets will be fine, but man .... Good for Jose to escape the city and the players who will become the biggest what if/bust in NBA history.
That would be another con job for just another year. I grew to realize that all Stone does is to keep this brand relevant, but nothing more and nothing less.
Well, they aren’t a championship contender, and trading for Cobe White or [insert bullshit journeyman point guard] wasn’t going to save the ****ing season. And trading for Giannis would have been a catastrophic mistake. Absolutely mental.
Stone cracks me up. He is like it’s not happening nothing to see here. AND everyone is like okay, we will get them next year. This is WILD—> really how can someone just not produce and enjoy the benefits of employment. mind blowing
At around the time of Harden's exodus, I envied Miami for their hoard of promising young players... Bam, Herro, Nunn, Robinson. I thought their young core would grow into a contender in a few years. (They actually got to the Finals in the Mickey Mouse Bubble Championship that very year.) Well, 6 years later, they are still wallowing in mediocrity in the Eastern Conference. I feel that we are a somewhat similar version of the 2019 Heat. I wonder how we will turn out a few years from now. The Heat had Riley and Spoelstra. We have Stone and Udoka.
What ceiling is that? We are WAY head of any curve we should be at. The Rockets aren't that far from the Harden days
The Heat's problem is they never got that Elite Superstar, who they got after Lebron, Wade, Bosh..... no tanking was allowed, that is automatic mediocrity. Butler, Wiggins, Rozier, Herro, Norman Powell, those are just 2nd or 3rd options on stacked teams...... #HeatCulture = Wasted Years of real Contention, a True Top 3 Pick would have done Wonders.
It's been 6 years. What's normal for it to take 10 years after a star leaves? Of course not. We were way ahead of the curve last season when we were one of the youngest teams and finished with 50+ wins. Now we're a much older team and will finish with 50+ wins. Even if you only count our healthy rotation, we're older without gaining any ground. We could have gained ground by standing past last summer. If you have one of the youngest teams, more wins from internal development is almost a given. It's not reasonable anymore to say we're ahead of the curve. We're firmly an average rebuild now. The days of most teams screwing up their tank have been over for a while.
Yes of course. That's a standard rebuild where nothing went wrong and nothing went great. First 3 years you win 20-30 games. Then half your games. Then two more years to win a first round series. It's normal. If I show you a post from the first or second year where I specifically predicted this would happen regardless of who replaces Silas, will you change your mind and admit it's normal to project it?
I agree that it's been epically painful to be a Rockets fan over the past 31 years. We've had more what-ifs than possibly any other team in any major American league I can think of during that time. But ultimately, many of those Rockets teams were good enough to go all the way under many circumstances, but they just got screwed by bad luck. Injuries, bad matchups, Scott Foster,... more injuries. Maybe the same thing will be true this year, but it's not like there is an easy fix for it, just like there wasn't an easy fix for any of those not-quite teams over the past three decades.
I wonder if this has been the mind set since Fred's injury? What a disappointment for the fans. Rocket Org....... Do better!!!!!!!!
this is 100% true. The common denominator here is Stone. You hate Ime? Stone hired him You hate the Durant trade? Stone pulled the trigger Are you unsatisfied with the draft picks post Harden? Stone made those decisions. Franchises can survive mediocre coaches and players but mediocre executives cripple franchise. Look at the past championship GMs. Would you say Stone even belongs in the same room as them?
