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Rockets building a very strange team. Not sure what they’re doing
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Rockets building a very strange team. Not sure what they’re doing
A vet presence is huge with that young team. So what would you have done? Had to spend somewhere and you suggest wait it out for a trade?You dont even know what you truly have with Green, Sengun, Amen, Jabari, Cam yet
It's been a solid 2 years. Ime coming in acting like they gotta win right away asap.
Its w.e I gave my 2 cents about w.e the Rockets FO thinks they're doing.
The most modest flashy dude in the league lol
Tre jones and gabe aren’t stabilizing your youth movement at all. Neither likely start over KPJI would’ve offered a contract to a cheaper PG (ex: tre Jones, gabe Vincent, something along those lines). Gone after vets like Derrick Rose, etc.
Then taken back bad contracts for picks.
It’s year 3. Im missing the playoffs regardless. I’m ok with seeing what I have with all my young guys. My pick
is top 4 protected. I’d roll the dice.
This Rockets slander is all over the place. They set the franchise back, they lowered the value of young guys, they will win 20 games next year, should have traded for picks and tanked, Jabari and Green might get the max during DB’s deal, they should have signed better bets to win more games, they don’t know what they have, they might win 35 game, etc. Got damn
Who knows what Green, Sengun, Jabari, Amen, Tari and even Whitmore are going to be in the end but the fact is that internal rebuilds take time. Historically speaking when you look at today’s current allstars there are only a few exceptions like Embiid, Tatum, Luka, etc who became allstars early which was in part because of team success. Most of them have developed through rebuilds on lottery/low-seeded teams. About that 4-5 season mark is when we have seen players brought into those environments blossom into all star level talent like Giannis, Steph, Klay, Joker, Jaylen Brown, Ingram, Wall, Beal, etc.
Even if we limit it to the regular season, the team success isn’t overnight either with the rare exceptions of Golden State (23 wins to 46 wins in a season) and Philly (28 wins to 52 wins in a season). But even during their rebuilds and to get to where they did they signed vets, traded players, missed on some picks and found some surprises along the way but that all took at least 5 seasons from their first big draft (Curry, Embiid) and progression.
I can not definitively said if the Rockets will find the championship success of the Warriors or become a perennial contender like the 76ers but bringing in Ime and signing FVV and Brooks are pushing the franchise in the right direction by beginning to help the locker room develop a winning mentality. Their contracts also lineup with the 4-5 year leap mark that the Rockets and fans hope the young core takes. These moves may scream “win now” but that’s purely based on numbers which isn’t indicative of the reality of what they are doing and building IMO.
Several of the previous posts commented on this exactly.Ok so this is a 1-2 year experiment? How do you build after this? Do you have any flexibility the next 2 years?
Rockets will be better than the Knicks next seasonIt’s too early for this. We’ll see where the rockets are in 2 years and how much of the culture Dillon Brooks changed.
This isn’t that hard to grasp yet that man is willing to die on that hill.
2 years from nowOk so this is a 1-2 year experiment? How do you build after this? Do you have any flexibility the next 2 years?
Or is the plan to continue winning 30 games in the chance none of your young guys are an all star.