A Final Tribute to Flyin' Ryan Bowen tear

lpbman · Oct 28, 2006

Ehh... you guys are nuts. I cheered for the guy while he was here but come on... LOL
Anyway, good luck and G'night Flyin Ryan....

He shot under 30% last season, you can't intangable your way out of that sort of funk.

TeamUSA · Oct 28, 2006

Amel said:

so what was JVG excuse

"Ryan I really have to let you go, it's not me, it's the team!"
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"..and besides, you're guaranteed a million bucks this year. "

hooroo · Oct 28, 2006

http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2006/10/was_it_a_good_preseason.html

Ryan Bowen was waived by the Rockets, and after reading blog responses the past few months, I feel safe in assuming most of you probably will not consider this to be a great loss.

That's a shame. Bowen ought to be a fan favorite.

No one, absolutely no one, plays harder. That is not a matter of choice as if you or I could choose to play so hard for a million bucks. We could not even think of ways to hustle in the moments he actually beat opponents to loose balls or down the floor. That's a tough thing to do. On winning teams, it is celebrated. But the Rockets were a losing team. And though Bowen was never much of a shooter, he was not the poor shooter we saw last season, either.

He played injured and in pain and his own stats suffered for it. I mentioned his hip injury a few times in print, but he always asked me not to and refused to say much about it. He played last season with a torn hip labrum. I don't think I could make toast with a torn hip labrum. But he played because so many teammates could not.

It was a lousy season and a guy that deserved better got kicked around because of it. The Rockets needed his roster spot and Friday's move was probably inevitable, but it's not something to celebrate.

Posted by Jonathan Feigen at October 27, 2006 09:26 PM
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heypartner · Oct 28, 2006

rimrocker said:

Jonathan Feigen takes a slap at the haters in appreciation of RyBo...
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Ryan Bowen was waived by the Rockets, and after reading blog responses the past few months, I feel safe in assuming most of you probably will not consider this to be a great loss.

That's a shame. Bowen ought to be a fan favorite.

No one, absolutely no one, plays harder. That is not a matter of choice as if you or I could choose to play so hard for a million bucks. We could not even think of ways to hustle in the moments he actually beat opponents to loose balls or down the floor. That's a tough thing to do. On winning teams, it is celebrated. But the Rockets were a losing team. And though Bowen was never much of a shooter, he was not the poor shooter we saw last season, either.

He played injured and in pain and his own stats suffered for it. I mentioned his hip injury a few times in print, but he always asked me not to and refused to say much about it. He played last season with a torn hip labrum. I don't think I could make toast with a torn hip labrum. But he played because so many teammates could not.

It was a lousy season and a guy that deserved better got kicked around because of it. The Rockets needed his roster spot and Friday's move was probably inevitable, but it's not something to celebrate.

Posted by Jonathan Feien at October 27, 2006 09:26 PM
http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2006/10/was_it_a_good_preseason.html
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thank you Jonathan Feigen.

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