Everyone who works in sports is competitive. The jobs are limited and once you have them, there's an enormous pressure to win, not just from external sources. These people are genuinely some of the most competitive people on the planet so they all want to win already. And just as winning brings great joy and relief, the opposite is true of losing.

Nobody on the Houston Rockets (currently on a 14-game losing streak) is having fun right now. Even if it was foreseen, losing this much fosters an incredibly depressing environment. And the fanbase has a right to be upset about it. People in positions of power within the organization have a right to be frustrated by it. Right about now, those people historically get itchy trigger fingers to try and stop the avalanche.

However, the correct response is not to fire Rockets head coach Stephen Silas. And I'll explain why.

1. Firing Stephen Silas does not solve anything right now

The reason to fire a head coach is if you believe he or she is holding you back from some sort of success. However, Silas isn't the reason the Rockets are a bad basketball team right now. Houston is bad because their roster is bad, as simple as that may sound. Many experts could have told you that they were expected to be at the bottom of the conference again. There is no All-Star currently on the team, their starting backcourt is a combined 40-years-old, and much of the talent that led them to a 16-win season last year was brought back.

There was no reason to expect anything else but this. Also, if you're going to fire a head coach, you have to be sure his replacement is going to be a step up. If the Rockets fire Stephen Silas, they're probably going to make lead assistant coach John Lucas the interim head coach. Lucas was a finalist for the job this summer and is respected a great deal by the front office. Houston would then conduct a coaching search, of which Lucas would be prominently involved.

It's worth questioning whether Lucas would be a step up from Silas considering he's been on the staff all season in a prominent role. The underlying problems are still going to be the same. The roster is still going to be inexperienced and bad. Lucas isn't going to be able to solve any of that.

2. There isn't an incentive for Houston to win games right now

For the sake of argument, let's say the Rockets do take a dramatic step up after removing Stephen Silas. In the grand scheme of things, what does that accomplish? Houston has all the incentive in the world to be bad right now to obtain a high draft pick before they have to start forfeiting first round picks to the Oklahoma City Thunder as a result of the Russell Westbrook trade. The front office has little to no incentive to win basketball games this season.

While I would agree that they shouldn't be performing this poorly and that some of the rotational decisions have been questionable (to put it generously), I struggle to see why it's better for the Rockets to be a 25-win team than a 20-win team this season. The difference is minuscule and I don't think Silas is doing anything to stunt player development. Jalen Green and Alperen Sengun have received a lot of minutes and while Sengun should probably be starting right now, it's not hurting his development for him to be a sixth man. It's only hurting the Rockets as a basketball team.

Assuming the Rockets pick up a win this week, Usman Garuba and Josh Christopher are sent to the G League at some point, and Green continues to make steps forward, I don't view Houston's current situation as untenable.

3. Firing a coach is something you should only do so many times

Whatever you do, you don't want to become known as the organization that cycles new head coaches in and out. It took the Phoenix Suns a decade to break out of that vicious cycle and the Kings still haven't broken out of it. The decision to end a coach's tenure before his contract expires is a very serious one. It's something that should only be done like twice in a star player's career if you expect to keep that star. If the Rockets believe that star player is currently on their roster, it's best to establish some stability right now before using that bullet.

If Houston believes Silas isn't their head coach of the future, fine. However, there's not any incentive to make that move right now. Unless a coach is establishing a bad culture or stunting player development, changing head coaches during a rebuild has historically been pointless. When it's time for Houston to start winning games, that move seems more appropriate. That's not going to be for a couple of years though.

The players like Stephen Silas and while he's still clearly learning the ropes, there's tremendous value in stability.