On the belief that the current Rockets “don’t have any stars
“They do have some stars. Because these guys are new players — Aaron Brooks is a star. He’s a star. The things that he’s doing out there, he should be considered for an All-Star. And Carl Landry is an animal. My son Trey and I have created a database. All the stats, everything that happens in a game, we have all these searches where I can break down where people score from, when they score, what kind of game climate it is and all that stuff. Landry is right up there with the superstars. In fact, he’s probably scoring at a higher percentage than some of the guys who are going to be in the All-Star game. I saw him against Andrew Bynum the other night – you know, Bynum is one of the longest players in the league – and they’re throwing the ball inside to Landry and he’s right in rhythm. It doesn’t even faze him. He also should be considered as an All-Star. He’s a special player. A lot of people don’t know him. They make the playoffs, they upset somebody… he’s going to be a guy that – the NBA knows about him now.
via ClutchFans – Rudy T Reflects on Rockets.
Some great stuff in this transcript of a radio interview with Rudy T, including a talk he had with Jordan about Rockets v. Bulls 94-95 that never happened, and Robert Horry.
But this stuck out to me. I always try and see into the future, as we all do, but through the lens of how different things looked five years ago from where we are now. Seeing Wade tear it up his rookie year, we still didn’t know he’d become this. So we wonder where these guys we now see as “great” but not superstars will end up. Not everyone winds up in the top five players of their generation,but that doesn’t mean they weren’t terrific in their time. Perhaps no team embodied that more than the Rockets, who had one all-timer and then a bunch of guys who you wouldn’t call awesome, but you definitely didn’t want to meet on the floor for 48 minutes.
You don’t want to run into Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry for 48 minutes.
I miss Tomjanovich. The way he went out always left me unsatisfied.
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