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Booooo that man!!! LOL. It might be hard to watch sometimes, but they are OUR Rockets, and im a fan through the good times and the bad.

Rockets have set themselves up to never be good, no matter if they landed Melo they are built to be the weakest defensive team in the league. Brooks is too small to stop anyone, Lowry isn’t athletic, KMart is built from sticks and chewing gum, Scola can’t block shots so their help defense is compeltely absent, and Yao, well I won’t go there, but even if his career isn’t over he’ll be a slower version of Big Z which makes him next to worthless (ok I went there).

Thats 3 positions that can’t defend, they are the poor man’s Golden State Warriors at this point without the upside of young talent, they are lucky to have a good coach who kind of makes it work.

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Utterly unwatchable? A bit hyperbolic there. I question the basketball IQ of a fan that only wants to watch for wow-factor. The game was ugly no doubt, as apparently firing up contested 3s without running a play is contagious and spreads from team to team. Shooting 15% from 3 after starting hot is certainly not wowing. But NBA basketball is not going to be WOW every night. Some nights you’re off, and you have to hustle and play defense. If you can’t get wow from watching textbook, shut-down defense on one of the league’s most explosive players, then maybe you shouldn’t be watching in the first place. Just check out the Top Plays every night.

Rockets fans, calm down, you aren’t making the playoffs this year anyway so don’t worry about a 7 game series with the Spurs (it’d end in 4 just so you know). Maybe you can lure Marc Gasol to Houston next year, thats the best available center and he’s probably going to NYK, NJ, or ATL.

The fact remains that Kevin Martin, Aaron Brooks, and Luis Scola are a terrible core of players (cemented by the fact castoff Lowry stole Brooks job in under a month). Yao’s expiring contract should alleviate enough money to sign a superstar, but my guess is that no one big comes (there’s only Melo) and you blow your money on Tayshaun Prince and Jamal Crawford.

The Rockets are in the tough place of not being bad enough to get a top pick but not good enough to get into the playoffs, and structured to where it is impossible to become a title contender with the current core no matter what superstar they add.

Of course I still check the box scores, schedules, and browse TDS.

If the Rockets and Longhorns’ basketball are both on TV at the same time, UT easily has the higher priority, given that they are… you know… good. They are winning, they play hard, and they play defense (around top 5 nationally in defensive efficiency), and they have at least 3 future NBA prospects (Jordan Hamilton, Tristan Thompson, and Cory Joseph).

If UT isn’t on, then I’m probably playing PC games with the TV on the Rockets game. I might glance over if Worrell raises his voice, indicating something exciting happened. Other than that, it’s just refreshing the box score on ESPN.

But really, I agree. The Rockets are nothing short of frustrating to watch because they’re stuck in limbo – not enough solid vets to stay in the middle of the playoff pack, too many solid vets to rationalize playing the young guys a lot.

I am, nonetheless, one that hopes we can make a trade for Nene, Anthony and Harrington, so long as we cash in the right chips.

Poker analogy – Daryl Morey is like the short stacked guy at a table who knows everyone’s tells. The tells are assets to his game, but they’ve been ultimately fruitless because his only valuable play would be an all in, hoping he gets multiple calls and that his big pocket pair hits the set on the flop. The problem is everyone knows his only power play is an all in, and that such a play tips others off to his hand, minimizing action. People don’t want to just pay him off, they want a solid chance at beating him.

do you think you still contribute to the blog?

Don’t let anyone get to you. You do a good job writing when you do and I for one enjoy how you say what you feel with no regard for anyone’s feeling about it. Much respect.

Couldn’t agree more. You were missed, some of the new ppl on the blog are pretty lame and get their feelings hurt pretty easily. Stick around and be the voice of reason

Daves here arguing with people. Seems like old times.

I don’t think the team is unwatchable, but they are frustrating.

I’m not sure I buy the super elite player or youre worthless theory. I think that status is fluid and can be applied retroactively.

  I don’t view JVG with the same rose colored lenses. He had nothing to do with the players he had? I doubt that.

But this one sure got a lot of responses, it’ll prolly exceed 300 by the time this day is done. Realy got a rise out of y’all.
No we are not in contention to win it all but only 5 teams realy are and out of those 5 only 1 wasn’t also a contender last year or the year before. Just because ur not poised to win it all doesn’t mean your the kings or the warriors or whoever u compared us to.
Franchise big men are and allways were rare and that’s what we need to contend.
Not everyone gets to have dwight, griffin, or durant so the wow factor is negligable.
We got heart n hustle, that’s our trade mark and although it won’t get us the 1st overall pick anytime soon its better to play with pride than tank for fun.
Fans can be pragmatic or optimistic (its a either/or situation in our case sadly) but at the end of the day, following sports should be a little less frustrating than following ongoing nuclear proliferation, child molestation or any of the other million horrible things this world has to offer.
There is a place for hopeless negativity and that’s everywhere else but the inconsiquential outcomes of sporting events.

Why is this front page? Not all teams have to be the 2002 Kings or 2006 Suns to enjoy the emotional connection to a home franchise. If you want super duper entertaining, watch the Heat, Lakers, or Thunder.

the award for most green comments on a single thread. I kept scanning down and all I kept seeing was 2 recs, 3 recs, 4 recs, repeat. So let the haters hate, but this place wouldn’t be the same without you. And though I don’t always agree with you, there’s no harm in disagreeing. I hope next Rockets season is more interesting to you so you’ll come around more and post a few Ruminations from the Bench.

Best post I’ve read on the dream shake ever.

I like scola, but NO ONE should be untouchable. Not a single player. Except maybe the chuck wagon.

I want Blake griffin! Give up whatever and even take baron davis. Of anyone would trade him it would be the clippers….. Or timberwolves

      The Rockets hustle is what I care about. The Rockets are a team, my team. And I will watch them and enjoy them. They day they walk around on the court and fuck off and do not act like grown men, that’s when I’m changing the channel. But I love a team that although mediocre, still gives their all. The potential is there, and maybe someday we will be a great team. There are 30 teams in the league. So therefore, just out of a purely math and logical stance, we should only win a championship once every 30 years. We’ve won two in the last twenty!
      I don’t understand. You are the founder of this blog, and much love to you for that, as this has easily become my favorite Rockets location. But yet you disappear when things get down.

Different things rustle different folks jimmies in different ways. I find the future for this Rockets team relatively bright and I truly wish Adelman would play that future to develop it sooner rather than later. Heartbreaking losses and wasting away some great vets is not a very fun thing to watch but I hold on. I will say I consider it a bit more dedicated to find a way to keep watching through thick and thin but there’s not a whole hell of a lot of people who adhere to this belief.

Years of conditioning with the Bills insulates me from disappointment really.