[Clutchfans] Chris Paul says the 2017-18 Houston Rockets might have been the best team he ever played on and that the reason the 2018-19 Rockets slipped is because they didn’t bring back Trevor Ariza.
Chris Paul says the 2017-18 Houston Rockets might have been the best team he ever played on and that the reason the 2018-19 Rockets slipped is because they didn't bring back Trevor Ariza.
Good explanation here of how not all players with similar stats are created equal. https://t.co/QKeTdPWLWh pic.twitter.com/ekSM3Ackqm
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by spikespiegel33
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Hate to revive ancient history and I’m excited for what’s to come but I agree with Chris here. It is interesting to see he thinks we were the best team he’s played on considering he was just on a suns team that went to the finals. To be fair, the 2018-2019 team was very good and one stupid L to OKC in the last game from being the 2nd seed though. But you could tell they sorely missed Ariza trying to replace him with the likes of James Ennis, Melo and D House. CP3 also wasn’t the same athletically that year.
I feel like if we won that last game vs okc, harden would have won MVP. carrying them from the 14 seed to the 2nd seed and averaging 36.5, 8 and 7 with almost 2 steals is 2K numbers
He’s right.
The first sign that Tilman was going to cheap out.
Would have been even more different if CP3 wasn’t injury prone
another day, another reason to despise Fertitta
Not only did they not bring back Ariza but also didn’t use their MLE on another rotation player. So essentially the Rockets had an entire bench filled with minimum guys + Shumpert they got in a salary dump but ultimately played like a minimum guy.
That said, CP3 didn’t play well that year either.
Really good point about players appearing very similar on paper but not actually being the same player on the floor. So much of basketball and sports in general are the intangible factors and how players see and think about the game.
You were also way worse in the playoffs that year too chris, think that’s probably a bigger factor
No shit. We were a hamstring injury away from beating the best team of all-time, and the team ownership was too cheap to run it back.
I FUCKING SAID IT. I’ve used Ariza as the prime example of Fertitta allowing an absolute master class of team building to fall apart due to being a cheap ass. To this day, I’m still angry about it.
I don’t care what anyone says, that was *the* best team to not win a chip.
I’d say part of the reason we didn’t bring back Trevor Ariza was how his last game for us went and he STILL wanted over 10 mil
Yeah we have a cheap owner but, if that’s how Ariza is going to play in the important games as a role player, he can’t be asking for a payout
and also because you were bit of a bum but aight
Not going to argue against that.
I also agree for not resigning him for the amount of money he was offered also.
We know, Chris 🙁