Rockets

[Nconroe]

Astros seem to be taking the path you mention of blow it up to get young talent and be plan is be good in 2-4 years, farm system, aren't they?

Rockets will likely get tired of reaching for impossible super star soon, when is the question. It's almost like Mooray has an impossible mission right now. The other team has to want to give up a superstar and then superstar has to agree to come here.

If they can give a few guys away now for future draft picks, they could be there next year, ie. bottom 3 in lottery.

The three guys just drafted, could all be pretty good in 2-3 years, athletic, wingspan, big hands, basketball players, time will tell.

I guess we will see some trades sometime before season starts to try to get a little better, balance of experience, taller.

[Nconroe]

Rockets appear to have now traded Lowry for a draft pick to Toronto, perhaps to get a high lottery pick that way in next year or two.

http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterocket...st-round-pick/

maybe they can trade Kevin Martin and even, although I like him, Scola, to bad teams for likely high draft picks next year from other teams, and maybe their own pick as well will be better if go this route.

Getting the big star(s) in free agency and trades sure isn't working, takes another team and player and just too few superstars to go around right now.

Heck , being optimistic, maybe these young guys just drafted past year or three will play good and be entertaining as well.

[HPF Bob]

Maybe the name of their new channel will be "Comcast Sucktacular".

Astros! Rockets! C-USA! They could cap it off with a show devoted to Obama's economic advisers.

[Nconroe]

Another step in direction of blowing things up with sign and trade of Camby to Knicks.

The Rockets get guard Toney Douglas, centers Josh Harrelson and Jerome Jordan and second-round picks in 2014 and 2015.

What next?

[Nconroe]

Dwightmare seems the appropriate term for going after Dwight Howard.

Deciding to amnesty Luis Scola, starting to cross a line what seems good decisions to me right now.

Almost sounds like Rockets passing a whole lot to Orlando to make a very risky move.

Realize Howard is good, but, wow.

[HPF Bob]

Has to really dent all those "Morey is Genius. Moneyball is God" types who have become more and more quiet since the Ming-McGrady Era crashed and burned. I think somebody (Comcast? Alexander?) is DESPERATE to get a marketable name to put on this new channel since the Astros apparently won't do it. It says something that the only other player Morey has pursued is Jeremy Lin who used to be a scrub with the Rockets before Linsanity started.

The Rockets need a face and they'll worry about whether they can build a contending team later.

[popanot]

I can't figure out what the hell they're doing. They're getting rid of all their veteran players (not that that is any big deal since the team has mostly sucked), have like 10 forwards and zero guards now, and now they're trying to insert themselves into any Howard deal out there (and apparently not getting anywhere with any of them). If the plan is to finally suck bad enough to get some high lottery picks, then I get it and it will probably work. Otherwise, I have no idea... The only thing obvious right now is the fact that Howard and/or Orlando wants noting to do with Houston or its player resources.