Game 14 Recap: Rockets Less Ugly Than Pistons, 97-80

I haven’t been able to find a burrito that satisfies me as well as a good Bullrito. When my roommate took me there a few months ago, it was a life changing moment.

Chipotle den bullritos den mission den tutty fruity den freebirds……jus sayin

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Just the tip.

if Tayshaun Prince is your high scorer, you’re going to lose

Would require far more time than I have to check in-depth, but Prince has had (including tonight) 101 games in which he has scored 20 or more points. Of those, the Pistons have won 77 of them. So, maybe, maybe not. I sort of see it the other way: if Prince is outscoring everyone, then probably it’s because Detroit was having a banner day on offense. Not so much today, though.

Just what is the theory with that Detroit team? What are they trying to do?

Bill Simmons echoed my own thoughts when he said that they’re put together like a fantasy team. There’s little coherence to the team — it’s just a bunch of guys who can play multiple positions. Everyone is a swing-forward or combo guard. The only guy who has any sort of definite place is Monroe, and even that is up in the air.

The problem was that they went to rebuild in ‘09 and then blew all of their cap space by outbidding themselves for Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva. If they were a team with Greg Monroe, a bunch of weird positionless glue guys, Rodney Stuckey, and $15 million in cap space, they’d be a very interesting team this summer. But with all that money tied up in older, largely shitty players, they’re kind of fucked until the contracts are almost up.

The good news, however, is that Greg Monroe is very good (didn’t show it today, though) and very young. Good combination. Just need to hold on to him…

Of course, they could trade him to the Rockets and I’d be very happy.

constitutes a streak to be reckoned with.

We’re not in a position to fix those needs and we won’t ever compete for a title and don’t you want a title in Houston again (That the Texans aren’t forced to bring?). It’s good for confidence but we’re also horrible away from home (half our games) and have beat up on really bad teams WITH our bench giving up leads (everywhere).

What I am saying is that by hoping for some major flukes to happen or some steal to fall in our lap we’re not a franchise that will ever be relevant. Improvement causes pain. What warped perspective do I employ? The law of probability that a high pick turns out to be a good player? The fact that picking 14th tends not to yield franchise players? The fact that there are many teams better than the Rockets and the Rockets are not in position to be better than those teams but for a massive outbreaks of death amongst other NBA rosters or someone donating a star for nothing.

I appreciate taking the time to try to call me out but I want to know what’s warped about wanting long term success rather than me feeling good for now because my team can get to .500.

but we got really lucky with Lowry, and so far with Patterson. Lowry’s playing like he was a top 5 pick, and Patterson could turn into a player that should have been a top 10 pick.

We got pretty lucky again this year. Marcus Morris fell to 14, and as a SF, he could develop into a matchup nightmare. However, he’s not proven in the least, and he may just turn into a decent stretch 4.

My point is this: Even though we’ve drafted really well over the past few years, I wouldn’t count on players being taken 13th or 14th turning into really good players. Instead of trying to sneak into the playoffs every year, I would rather see us fully commit to rebuilding. If that means getting rid of Scola and Martin, so be it. We would at least be playing the young players significant minutes.

No go-to guy to take the burden off Lowry. No franchise player to build around. No guy to look at and say “Awesome, we won’t need that position to be addressed for 10 years, let’s go.”