The Loser of the Nba offseason THUS far

Artest has 1 season with Yao and he is automatically considered the better sidekick next to Yao??? Hahahah who is this guy

 

How am I supposed to take an article seriously if it's written by a JFro?

 

No media in this world understands the Rockets. They think that somehow we going to make a splash just because Yao is out and Artest is gone. The Rockets front office is patience and we are not rushing into making bad decisions like other teams. Plus there is nothing we can due to the big salary of Yao and McGrady.

Plus about Artest, even though he didnt sign with us, I don't think our front office wanted him back anyway. We wanted to be younger and plus the Rockets didnt even offer him anything and I guess we rather have Ariza because he is younger and not a headcase like Artest. The Rockets saw Artest as a one year rental and everyone in the media thinks that the Rockets are making him part of their future. The Rockets are similar to the Spurs and most often make very smart moves.

 

love the revisionism.

Of course, it completely slipped my mind that the merit of a transaction is judged on the basis of its individual potential to "turn it all around."

i usually don't bother responding to this crap, but i'm bored as hell at the moment.

 

Sometimes I forget that we just signed Trevor Ariza. I hope he is training this offseason really hard and then he would exploded during the season...


09-10 Most Improve Player: Trevor Ariza

 

We can argue on the points of the article but not his conclusion. The Rockets are going to fall, and that's a fact. However, I think it will be a short rebuild, which won't last more than one or two seasons.

The goal is to land a healthy franchise player still in their prime (either through trade or free agency) or land a franchise player through the draft, preferably both.

 

I wholeheart edly disagree with the article on Artest being the better sidekick. Thats just more pro LA media wording until they find out about Artests bad habits. Rockets just had a better team and had Brooks finally starting over Rafer in the playoffs. It could be said that all Artest did was play on a team with a better Scola, Aaron Brooks, and a healthy Yao in part of the playoffs which Tmac never had the luxury of.

 

He's a r****d. He doesn't know what the work "porous" means. Shot selection can't be "porous".

 

The only reason we made it out of first round and got the lakers running for their money is because of Brooks and Scola mostly. Artest did well defensively at times but man he took some horrible shots and almost made me kill myself. Brooks and Scola are the one that created all the nightmares for LA

 

I love all this bad press.

If we lose all 82 games, meh, we were supposed to.

If we win and make noise in the playoffs, I knew it all along, we are greatness.

It really is the safest time to be a Rocket fan.

 

On paper. Yes we did lose talent.

We lost Yao to injury, and Artest to the Lakers.

However we did add some potentially strong young draft picks and Trevor Ariza to the team. If anything, our defense got better (perimeter D).

 

Our perimeter D is probably still the same or maybe a little bit worst. Who knows anyway. I mean having Artest side by side with Battier was tenacious. That Artest and Battier combo shut Lebron down to one of his worst game ever in his career. I don't know if Ariza can bring the same tenacious D like Artest but at least he can play good defense. I just don't know whether it is as good as Ron, but its a start.

 

I agree. Basically what I was saying. Artest is not as good as Tmac if he is healthy. Tmac would have lead us past Portland too with that team and he would have led us past the Lakers because he would have scored more than 13 points a game like Artest did and not got kicked out in the fourth quarter for a technecal. The team was better than ever because Scola and Brooks where better than ever is the reason we got out of the second round though.

 

Yea if we had a Healthy Tmac in the playoffs along with Artest, Yao, Brooks, and Scola...We will still be celebrating our 09 Championship. Man we were soooooo close to even taste the championship. We would easily dismantal the Nuggets and we will destroyed Magics in the Finals. It is sooo sad that we were so close and yet so far away

 

Haha! Yeah, I was wondering what he meant by that. I guess his thought process went something like this:



porous defense = bad defense

porous = bad

porous shot selection = bad shot selection



Just a case of a mental weakling trying too hard and ends up overcompensating.

I think we should ban all fan-made articles, especially that stuff from bleacher report. Most of the time, the articles are written by 15 year-olds trying to sounds like their favorite sports writers.

 

Fixed

 

I just do not expect anything good coming from outside media when it concerns Houston teams. The Lakers will see soon that Artest is not the same player he was earlier in his career and his overall defense and shot selection is very bad. If the Lakers do not win a championship next season, Artest will take the majority of the blaim and Kobe, that bandwagon fan base, their ownership, and the Laker-loving media will not put up with that. F*** the media and F*** all the Rocket haters!!!

 

Artest was an overrated defender. He doesn't shuffle his feet, and gets a lot of lucky steals off gambles. When the game comes down to the line, I would rather have Shane or Ariza on defense over Ron Artest.

 

Yea because Ariza and Shane don't gamble as much as Artest. But Artest brought the tough defense to the Rockets even though Ron made some stupid decisions sometimes.