Why Yao's Injury Isn't Doomsday
by Rothstein on Jun 29, 2009 2:44 PM CDT
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Yeah, Yeah, I know what you're thinking, he's our franchise player, arguably the most offensively gifted player over 7'2" since Wilt, and he has so much salary that we can't think of even competing until the Olympics are held in Fallujah. Here's why that's wrong.
This team has heart. Not just normal, every athlete with a chip-on-his-shoulder heart. I'm talking the combined heart of Shane Battier, superhero, Aaron Brooks, Chuck Hayes, and Carl Landry (who got shot and came back to pwn the Lakers a couple of months later, which everyone seems to have forgotten). This team is not the Spurs without Duncan. We have Tracy McGrady, or whoever we can trade him for, and when he's healthy, he's pretty damn good. We can still sign Ron Artest, who, when he's sane, is pretty damn good. We still have Rick Adelman, who most of the time is pretty damn good. And we have the Billy Beane-Theo Epstein - Ned Collett - Scott Pioli Voltron of a GM in Daryl Morey, who is pretty damn good.
All these reasons combined give us maybe an 8 seed everyone wants to face in the playoffs. Or we miss the playoffs next year, big deal, one year, we've gone far longer without making it. We get a lottery pick, draft Greg Monroe or whoever's en vogue, have a studly young big man, wave goodbye to McGrady, sign Chris Bosh in '10, and voila, we're a championship contender again. And then maybe Yao comes back.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, we just have to be okay with the speedbumps along the way. Also, should be fun watching a smallball lineup against the Warriors and Thunder 8 times next year, right?
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i like it.
but no thanks to bosh. he’s no number 1 option. a great number 2 option though
13 points in 39 seconds. Enough said.
bosh might work
He’s been the only good thing to happen north of the border in a while
by mutombo4life on Jun 29, 2009 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Your on the right track but...
I think we should trade now!!! Put Landry, Battier and Brooks on the trading block. I think Rubio will do good in the NBA. I seen him play mutilple times, he has great awareness and awesome passing abilities. I like Brooks but he is a shoot first PG and is a defensive liability. Losing Batter will be the only bad thing… he is the defensive leader for our team. But we need to start fresh and build a team that could complete with teams like the Lakers, Spurs, Celtics, Magic, and Cavs. Then in 2010 do whatever it takes to get Lebron. So in 2010 our starting lineup will be Yao, Scola, Lebron, Artest and Rubio. If Lebron could take a bunch of average players to the Finals what do yout hink he will do with this team. I mite be dreaming that Lebron will come to the Rockets but his wife stated Houston is the place she wants to go.
On Summer 2010
We’re not getting Lebron. Ain’t no way, Ain’t no how. Never, ever, ever, evereverever. I love him, I really want it to happen, but…just no. There are two places he might go. Cleveland or New York. Wade is the second option, but I think he’s just going to go to whoever of those loses out on Bronbron, or he might go to Detroit. Which leaves Bosh, Amare, and a few other not max-level players out there. Amare I think we can all agree we want no part of, he’s the antithesis of what it means to be a Rocket, and would be a cancer for our preposterously awesome defensive efficiency.
In terms of that trade for Rubio, I like it, and we all like it. But you know who wouldn’t like it? The Timberwolves. We’re giving them 2 bench players and, admittedly a defensive dynamo but someone with far-below-average offense for the next Chris Paul, who’s bigger and only 18. If I were David Kahn, and I saw Morey text me that deal, I’d delete his number from my phone, then teepee his house. We don’t have what it takes to trade for Rubio without giving up McGrady, and they probably don’t want McGrady anyway
Cant say I disagree.
I agree Lebron, theres a 99% chance Lebron will not be coming to Houston, but you just ruined my day dream. LOL. If we have to trade McGrady + someone else then I say do it. I have seen other teams trade rumors for Rubio and so far I havnt seen anything much better then what the Rockets have to offer. I believe C. Bosh will be an exactly addition to the Rockets, but what about Brandon Roy?
my advice is start rebuilding, give up on next season, trade mcgrady and artest, then you have a chance at getting a decent pick and being active in the ’10 free agent class
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trade … artest
uh, that’s not the way free agency works.
trade mcgrady … then you have a chance at … being active in the ’10 free agent class
Look, I understand that you’re a Cavs fan, and so you aren’t intimately acquainted with the Rockets’ cap situation, but you should know at least a little bit before you talk about it.
1) McGrady is in his final contract year. In order to trade him for anything of value, you have to take on longer contracts. So that gets rid of the 2010 free agency option.
2) There are only two players on contract through 2010: Yao (assuming he doesn’t opt out, which he won’t because that would be blindingly stupid) and Battier. The Rockets are in a perfect cap situation, and they don’t need to trade someone to be in a position to pursue a star.
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this only a lad guy has his panties in an uproar about this one
he has been taking it personnaly. Just check out my fanpost on the subject. the great wall has fallen.
by mutombo4life on Jun 30, 2009 10:43 AM CDT up reply actions
Give Up? NEVER
We may start rebuilding, but a point I made is the pieces we still have don’t have can’t in their vocabulary. That’s why we love Chuck Hayes even though he makes Shaq look like Reggie Miller on cocaine (in a good way) at the line.
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