I don't like the signings overall. If we were gonna strike out on the impact free agents I wanted us to start rebuilding in the hope we'd have something special a few years from now. I would have preferred to sign younger guys without crazy injury histories. To be honest, it's the Anderson $20 mil that kills me the most. All these signings do is allow us to tread water, we're not actually going anywhere. I see Les basically running this team into the ground with nothing to show for it in 2 years when Harden leaves. I'm not trying to be a hater but objectively speaking, we aren't even close to contending and it's hard for me to see how that changes his coming season, or even the season after that. So I'm not sure what we're playing at by bringing in the hospital brigade.
Agree. I wished they would have taken calculated risks on young talent with higher ceilings. We know what we will get with Gordon and Anderson and I'm not even looking at their injury history. I just think these signings are stopgap acquisitions so that next year's team can make the playoffs as a low seed just to keep the mediocrity train humming along.
It's not my money.. So ehh.. Besides my analytic app suggest these two are due for injury free seasons..
Solid signings to upgrade talent. Aside from the injury history, that's really the only knock on these acquisitions. Next year is the step to build back the rep for the rockets as harden's Free agency looms in 2 years
No idea why people are complaining like they were expecting a defensive first team next year. That makes no sense. When MDA was hired a defensive first mentality team went out the window period. Those complaining about the defensive side just need to accept it. It's not the top priority under a MDA team
A healthy Gordon is good enough for 3rd best on a champion and Anderson 4th. Harden is only #1 material if the #2 is equal. Team is probably missing The man/star.
Can I wait until Feb. or March to answer this question, because I feel like "impending" doom will happen at some point, giving our history with injured players?
both are incredibly injury prone but good offensively.. My biggest source of confusion/concern is how Gordon and Harden get on the floor together. Is Harden the back up pint and Gordon plays the 2? does one of them shift to the 3? Defenisvely it is going to be a dead-set nightmare
I'd call it a B+ if we were finished, because we got two perfect complements to Harden who were necessary to a successful season under D'Antoni, but we obviously are not.
bad moves all around, Gordon is a good signing for the price, if he's healthy, but he's only been healthy his rookie year out of 8 years. The contract says 12 million, but if he plays only 75% of the games, it's really more like 16M. Our defense definitely got worse, unless Capela turns into a DPOY candidate, but even then I'm not sure you can be good with Gordon + Ryan Anderson + Harden in the same lineup. Our offense was great last year, and it got better. Our defense was terrible last year, and it got worst. We'll at least be entertaining to watch, if you aren't a Rockets fan.
Check Gordon's total number of games participation in the last 6 years Beasley at least gets some minutes
if we win 50+ games I'll eat my laptop. If we had gotten Anderson 3 seasons ago I would have loved it. Now it dont make sense since we arent contenders. Same with Gordon. I wish we just started the rebuild already because we will literally be in a bad spot with these 2 for the next few years and Harden.
This is a tragedy simple and plain nobody wants to come play with them they are nobody's Morey panic and signed this bull crap
Right now. I like the signings. Last year, no real system, just jacking up 3's and ISO ball. Hard to watch This year we have an experienced coach with an actual offensive system. Likes PnR and shooting 3's. Picked up 2 shooters to fit into that system Still an upgrade over the chuckers we had last year. Anytime you upgrade you should be happy right? . . . .. except on CF I suppose
