Unpopular Opinion: The Houston Rockets are the biggest let down in the NBA over the last 8 years

[bksballer89]

I guess there was no way for them to keep Chris Paul and get Westbrook. But Westbrook was an improvement. Rivers was Really a bad choice.. Not sure what they saw in him

Westbrook wasn't an improvement

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Westbrook wasn't an improvement

Chris Paul getting older and starting to decline... Westbrook isnt the problem.. The coach is the problem along with the people who bought into his 8 man rotation.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Chris Paul getting older and starting to decline... Westbrook isnt the problem.. The coach is the problem along with the people who bought into his 8 man rotation.

The Rockets were better with CP3

 

[Stakesarehigh]

The PJ Tucker experiment predictably failed

 

[True Lakers Fan]

The Rockets were better with CP3

They always came up short though. They really do need a third player and a couple of more role players. What I have liked about the Lakers is some one always steps up big time with some threes or blocks. I still believe the Lakers have a deeper team

 

[Shanemansj13]

They always came up short though. They really do need a third player and a couple of more role players. What I have liked about the Lakers is some one always steps up big time with some threes or blocks. I still believe the Lakers have a deeper team

Well yeah but they were a better team. They were up 3-2 on the elite W’s team. Now they lose in the conf semi’s...they got worse. They ruined their roster and you have your main two now...not what else you can do to get a 3rd guy with the rest of this roster. The blew it

 

[Robotech]

No, the Rockets got unlucky that their best years were during the Warriors' run. This season is probably their biggest disappointment. Got worse by trading for Westbrook, IMO, struggled in the first round, and lost 4-1 to the Lakers even after winning the first game and having 4th quarter leads in the first 3 games of the series.

 

[tlance]

Always had Harden. Even with the addition of Westbrook, they can't make it past the 2nd round. 2 years ago they were the best team in the west with guys like Capela, Ariza, Harden and CP3 and weren't able to do anything.

There was this other team. The Golden State Warriors that they had to go through.

The Rockets were the only team that ever got close to beating the KD Warriors while semi-healthy.

Can’t knock Houston for failing to get past an all time great team. That 2018 group was good enough to win a title in a normal year.

And most of us knew the Harden/Westbrook thing wasn’t going to work.

 

[tlance]

This is among your dumbest sentences ever, and that's with very stiff competition. Do you enjoy being considered the dumbest poster here?

I mean, it isn’t an intelligent post by any stretch.

But I could probably find at least 100 dumber posts from Dorian.

 

[trojanfan12]

Chris Paul getting older and starting to decline... Westbrook isnt the problem.. The coach is the problem along with the people who bought into his 8 man rotation.

Most teams shorten their rotation to about 8 or 9 in the playoffs.

 

[bksballer89]

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

With all that talent, they've got nothing but 4 Division titles to show for it. Out of the last 8 years, 2 conference finals appearances and 0 NBA finals appearances. 3 of their 8 playoff appearances ended in a first round exit. I don't know what the answer is to Houston's problem, but they can't seem to ever be able to put it all together to take the title. Houston...what's the problem?!

Short answer: D'Antoni.

 

[trojanfan12]

lol

Maybe we can "almost" give them a banner for "almost" accomplishing something.

 

[bksballer89]

Short answer: D'Antoni.

Long answer?

 

[trojanfan12]

Short answer: D'Antoni.

Meh, hard to blame D'Antoni, imo.

D'Antoni believes in his small ball system and he has had a fair amount of success with it. He's been running his system long enough that anyone who's been paying attention knows exactly what they're getting.

The Rockets FO decided to go all in on his system. So, imo, it's more on them than on D'Antoni.

 

[bksballer89]

lol

Maybe we can "almost" give them a banner for "almost" accomplishing something.

Im not going to criticize them much because as i stated previously they had no real talent outside of Harden until 2016 when it comes to legit #2 option and the Warriors were around.

 

[Robotech]

lol

Maybe we can "almost" give them a banner for "almost" accomplishing something.

They're kinda like the guys who were beaten by Usain Bolt. No championship for those guys, but they are still among the best sprinters ever. Is it wrong to think of the 2018 Rockets as a great team?

 

[trojanfan12]

Im not going to criticize them much because as i stated previously they had no real talent outside of Harden until 2016 when it comes to legit #2 option and the Warriors were around.

Me either. But this "let's remember that they almost beat..." is a bunch of participation trophy nonsense, imo.

 

[Iggloo]

The Rockets are exactly what I expected them to be with Harden. Harden has actually been better than I thought but the result has been exactly what I expected.

 

[trojanfan12]

They're kinda like the guys who were beaten by Usain Bolt. No championship for those guys, but they are still among the best sprinters ever. Is it wrong to think of the 2018 Rockets as a great team?

They weren't a great team. They were a very good team who got beat by a great team.

Back in the day, the Lakers lost 8 times to the Celtics in the finals. No one says, "Wow, those were great Lakers teams, they made the finals 8 times". All anyone remembers is that they lost 8 times.