Huq’s Pen: Is James Harden underrated?
During a recent nationally televised broadcast–against whom I can’t remember–one of the play by play men said something like “Harden is one of the 10 or 15 best players in the league” and judging by...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: On Greg Smith
In a move that came as a bit of a shock (to use that term loosely), the Rockets announced yesterday that they had waived forward/center Greg Smith and signed center Dexter Pittman to replace him for...
View ArticleThe Rockets Daily – April 14, 2014
Rooting Interest - Last night in Portland, the Blazers beat the Golden State Warriors in overtime, 117-119. And be sure, this game is absolutely deserving of discussion on a Houston Rockets forum. It...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: And so it begins
Despite not really being a true contender, Houston was among just a handful of teams whose season didn’t really matter. All they would be judged upon would be their postseason play. And now we’re...
View ArticleThe Rockets Daily – April 16, 2014
With 1st round homecourt advantage clinched, Rockets holding out James Harden, Chandler Parsons and Jeremy Lin tonight, maybe more.— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) April 16, 2014Rockets make it...
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Huq’s Pen: Assessing the Houston Rockets’ Game 1 loss
If Patrick Beverley has been lost, you can kiss the Houston Rockets’ title hopes this year goodbye. You can stick a fork in them. They don’t have a chance in hell without Beverley. I guess we will...
View ArticleOn the NBA: Let’s make playoff love, not war
The playoffs show us something curious: the difference between the ideal and the practical. A “bad matchup” suggests, to me, not some rare quirk of the game or misnomer, but that we evaluate players...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: What a complete embarrassment
Before this series began, never in my wildest dreams did I expect to be writing about the team being down 0-2 heading to Portland. It was conceivable the Rockets could go down 0-2 in the next round...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: Preparations for Game 3
It is 9:10 PM right now at the time of writing. When Red94 goes to press, it will likely be sometime early Friday morning. I thought I would have cooled off from my rage from this morning (Thursday...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: And so we live to see another day
That’s the beauty of professional sports. It’s a game of seconds, of inches, of sheer luck. If Ray Allen doesn’t hit that miraculous ’3′ in Game 6 of the Finals last year, the narrative surrounding...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: The five stages of grief
I don’t really know what to tell you guys. I don’t really have the energy to break down a play or anything, right now. Maybe that will change in the next 48 hours. But right now I’m just straight up...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: A glimmer of hope
The difference last night was Jeremy Lin. I don’t think it takes too much analysis to arrive at that conclusion. Howard and Parsons, for the most part, repeated their series production; Harden too,...
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Huq’s Pen: How the Houston Rockets went down in predictably clueless fashion
Any way you want to look at it, the Houston Rockets’ 2013-2014 season was an abject failure. No amount of revisionist apologetics can change that. This team’s end game, the litmus test by which it...
View ArticleOn the NBA: Rings won in July
It seems unlikely that the Indiana Pacers will return. The Miami Heat killed them last night, did they not? Their assassination came through the Heat’s indifference; Lance Stephenson’s attempts to...
View ArticleThe Rockets Daily – June 4, 2014
Door #2 - On the eve of the 2014 NBA Finals, still haunted by Damian Lillard every time I close my eyes at night, it’s finally time to come out of hiding and talk some Rockets.Houston has made the...
View ArticleHuq’s Pen: Ramblings from June 9
I couldn’t think of a title because I honestly have no idea where I’m going with this post. When you haven’t written in some time, you just feel an urge to dump everything out at once rather than...
View ArticleOn the NBA: Hating greatness
Yes, it’s true, we swim in a sea of LeBron Hate. But I’m not convinced it’s toxic in any novel way. We’ve always had this. Social media, of course, grants some transparency to many of our uglier...
View ArticleMore on Lebron to Houston, Hollins
I’ve been writing about Lebron James now since last week, and the unlikely scenario which would bring him to the Rockets. I’ve decided to continue this crusade until Houston is dismissed outright by...
View ArticleHouston Rockets’ Lebron James and Carmelo Anthony Free Agency Watch: Part 1
I realize that this isn’t Part 1 of this topic, but what the hell else do you expect me to title this thing? I thought I had a pretty good thing going with my “On the Houston Rockets’ pursuit of...
View ArticleHouston Rockets’ Lebron James and Carmelo Anthony Free Agency Watch: Part 3
A few short, and very random thoughts.I think most people would agree that if assuming a healthy Derrick Rose, Chicago is the clear cut, no-brainer choice for Carmelo Anthony. Even basketball genius*...
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