Rick Adelman has some explaining to do

Pffff

No thanks.

and if he’s playing the same way in practice, I totally understand his lack of minutes. Thabeet is just a tall guy right now, they need to get him a lot of practice just to see what he can do. He’s been playing Bud, Lee and PP a lot of minutes…and it’s paying off. Say what you want about Chuck not being tall enough, but he’s far better than any other option we have. Jordan Hill has been disappointing, he’s not going to get playing time just because we all hope he’ll do well. Coach is playing the guys that have been consistent, and their defense is finally starting to turn around. There’s no reason to play the young guys, just to say he played the young guys…not yet at least. If the team had no chance at the playoffs, then maybe.

if he is coaching he will try to win. I don’t like the odds, but we are three games out with twenty left. I don’t think you could get him to operate any other way. Les is also pretty much the same way. I don’t think he would pull the plug on Rick for trying to get into the playoffs. Your argument has logic, but I doubt the guys driving the bus will buy into it.

Seriously. You think we should bench chuck to play Thabeet and Jordan? Are you serious? I sure as hell hope not. Chuckwagon is the embodiment of everything I love about this team. And you want to sit him to play trash. This team is currently on a 5 game winning streak and is coming off of its best 2 game stretch of the season and you write this post? It really seems you don’t watch the games otherwise I cannot figure how you would say the things you do. As someone said earlier in the comments we are 4.5 games out of the 5 seed and Chuck is a huge reason for this.

T-Will will get playing time as he shows he deserves it. Otherwise why not just quit bitching and enjoy the fact that we are finally playing good ball?

Also, we WILL NOT get swept in the 1st round if we find a way to get there.

We have every thing to play for and we should continue to do whatever we can to make the playoffs and that means playing Chuck a lot.

let them sink or swim. They are the future

for writing such a poor article. We are 3-0 after the trade. Adleman said himself “why play Thabeet if they haven’t been”.
Chuck shut down Aldridge. There’s no reason to go on. This is just a real bad read, that wasted my time between class.

You clearly don’t understand basketball. Please refrain from writing on this site. Comments? Maybe, but let’s leave it at that.

I just don’t get the vibe that any of those guys are going to become stars or anything. Sure Dragic and Williams could one day become starters, and it’s possible for Thabeet to become a serviceable big man. I know nothing about Carroll, so I am ignoring him.

If you disagree with the premise of this article… that’s fine.

If you don’t like reading things that might not be 100% in agreeance with what the Comicle spits out… I suggest you leave immediately.

What I write here is rarely, if ever, in line with “traditional thought” – because mainstream thinking only leads to mediocrity. No one stands out by agreeing with preconceived notions. Plus it’s boring.

But if you are going to disagree… have reasons. Thoughts. Rationale. To just say “you’re stupid, they won five in a row! They could make the playoffs!” makes you look shortsighted and ignorant. Just sayin’.

moving along…

I’ve got a Phys test at 7, but I’m concentrating way too much on this blog.

It’s just most fans are pretty pumped about seeing our beat quality teams on the road, and showing some type fluid rotation.

With out Shaine it makes RA’s job much easier, without having to deal with so many guards deserving playing time. I agree Williams need more playing time, but every time he enters the game our offense runs to a hault, and he settles for mid range fade aways. Courtney Lee has proved he’s capable of flowing with the team.

If Jordan hill isn’t even getting PT, don’t expect Thabeet to get any.
http://rockets.clutchfans.net/1468/rick-adelman-hasheem-thabeet/

I feel like I’m talking to my Spurs/Mavs fans here at school.

I agree about the playing time, without a doubt, but not while the team is meshing well.

Just let young guys because “Oh, they might be something for whatever reason.” Playing time is something that is earned, not given. So until Thabeet shows that he can contribute anything at all in practices and until T-Will can show that he will stop acting like Ariza on offense, there’s no reason to reward them for their poor play. I have never been part of the Free T-Will crowd, and well, that crowd looks a lot smaller these days.

The only reason you might possibly do that is if you’re after a legit pick, and for me, at this point, it’s too late. There’s no real difference between the 14th and 16th pick, and I want to see this team know that they really did try to the very end and get playoff experience.

is the fact that a lot of decisions that will effect this team for years will have to be made very soon. Let’s take the option on Thabeet’s contract as an example. We can tie him up for another year, but at a pretty hefty sum. Is he worth it, how do you tell without real minutes?
Do we try to move Brad Miller? Kind of depends on what the verdict is on Thabeet and Hill, again hard to say without legit PT for both. Rick is gone when the season is over most likely, after that what does he care. Can’t say as I blame him much at that. But we are stuck with this team, and what they look like next year is tied to the decisions we make after the season. Good decisions require good data, good data requires a large enough sample to be accurate.

has been more hated on than my “Rockets=Cowboys” piece (which has been proven correct, especially if the Rockets make a coaching change too). I never thought that one could usurped.

Is he in full on rehab mode? Or is he just kicking it at his restuarant?

While I agree that thabeet and williams should be allowed to play, and play through mistakes however determiental (like addlemens has let hill done all year) and I CERTAINLY agree that ppat should play WAY more, the idea that chuck (who has given his heart and soul every game for this franchise for years now) should step aside to give thabeet more time is lunacy.
Play time has to be earned, and players have to feel like they will be respected and rewarded for hard work.
Maintaining a winning culture is imperative, very hard to do when your sittin at 31-31 but the idea that this organization from top to bottom cares only about winning at all cost or against all odds is an attractive factor for a free agent.
Which impact player are we drafing? Which impact player could we recruit? Players like marc gasol can look at our team and realize we are a player like him away from being legit, thus allowing him to satiate his ego and remain confident that we will not cripple our future for finnancial reasons.
Also, there seems to be a recurring theme in these responses and instead of sitting back and realizing the majority of your post was incorrect, you are attempting to mock people over semantics.
What’s wrong? Not enough conviction behind your espoused genius?
Sad part is I tend to like grunge’s post, they are pragmatic and unrelenting and filled with harsh truths that are good to hear (not to mention funny as hell) but this one seemed more of an inane shot-in-the-dark rant than any kind of relevant or prevelant analasys.
When taken into account that there has been no time for practice and 3 full games with those players available to play, it seems a little more hasty and unwarranted.
Thabeet will not get even one 15min a night game this year (like it or not), hill will continue to get sporatic time as he continues to development, dragic will be getting 15-20 regularly in the upcoming weeks, and williams pt is in his hands now.
Lee has been doing well, bud has been doing well and ppat has done well (he should be the primary back-up to scola, no doubt)
Frankly, other than patterson vs miller mins, I don’t see the same rotation issues dave does.

1.) Death
2.) Taxes
3.) A post by Dave chapping so much ass Blistex falls behind in production trying to meet demand.

I agree with everything Dave said in this post minus the request of Jeff Van Gundy. JVG was a hell of a coach but he also had Thibodeau as an architect to many defensive schemes and he’s a bit pre-occupied coaching the Bulls. Add to it that he was notorious for not playing anyone young or foreign and that’s counterproductive to a team like the Rockets looking to rebuild.

I think the most important thing I’ve seen reflected in the comments here is the greed of the fans. Let’s face it, the majority of the posts here wanting the post season want it because they want something, they want to cheer, they want to be entertained longer. I say who cares? We didn’t make the post season last season, did anyone lose sleep or get angry to find that their sub-par Rockets failed to get into the post season? Winning is important, yes, but getting to the post season isn’t really going to improve us. What kind of greed must be embodied in a fan to demand that their team delay their possible improvement all for the sake of keeping you entertained? I’d much rather my team develop its youth and be better down the line than sneak into the post season just to give the NBA Playoff equivalent of a bye to a higher seeded team.

Let’s face it, at the end of the day, this Rockets team is the dying throes of an injured lion. Sure, it was once proud, noble, and fierce (Let me get away with romanticism here, fuck off) but now its heart is still beating as proudly but its leg is shattered and its neck has deep gashes. There comes a time where you have to yield that perhaps it’s time for a new lion to emerge. As much as you’d like to see that once proud beast raise his head, let one bellow out and stumble a few steps forward it will all be for naught as another lion needs to lead the pride. One with youth, vigor, and big paws. The push for the playoffs is truly saying you’d rather stumble forward and pray that that roar prolongs life for a few short moments prior to that dying breath rather than give the big pawed lion a chance to grow into that frame and perhaps be a better leader.

SUCK ON THAT SYMBOLISM!