Sources: Houston draft strategy revealed

Yeah but best player available in general? Orrrrrr in the draft?

 

But what if there is a shooting guard that is just a teeny tiny bit better than an available point guard?

We really need a pg.

Would that tiny bit of difference really matter?

 

Well most likely we still have Harden as SG.

Is that tiny bit of difference bigger than the chance Harden leaves?

 

I contend that the BPA can also fill a need, if said player is better than the current roster for that position. There's always seems to be PFs available and this draft is no exception, and it's even deeper in the PF pool. If we draft a PF, he could very well be working his way to the starting spot, if for instance, we decide to trade DMo plus filler for another proven player.

 

Part of me wants to be cynical and say it doesn't matter who they draft, because McHale won't play them even if we'd look pretty good with them out there.

*Meh* Just do whatever you think's right Morey/McHale.

 

Yeah, other than Parsons, Beverley, Capela, Tjones, and DMo, McHale doesn't play any young guys.

 

Best player available at the position of need

 

That's the same thing as drafting for need

 

At 18 you can't think that the Rockets are going to get an impact rookie specifically at a position of need. You draft the best player available, and if that means another player on your roster is expendable (to upgrade a glaring hole), then great. Looking at the draft as a long-term project is what allowed us to develop guys like Brooks, Parsons, Motiejunas, Jones, and Capela. If the BPA fills a position of need, that's icing on the cake.

 

What if it's like a .00000001% chance that hes better? Still?

Also, why do we trade for need instead of bpa? Why don't we sign bpa in free agency instead of need?

 

I like how this article by Chad Ford from prior to the 2012 NBA Draft http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/nba-draft/insider/post?id=74 starts with Royce White shutting down workouts because he may have gotten a promise from a team that he'd be drafted (albeit, Chad thinks it may be the Celtics) and ends with the "Houston is one of those teams that will always draft the best player available, regardless of need."

Just thinkin' out loud guys, just thinkin' out loud ...

 

I think with the team we have, the fact that we have a player in Harden and Dwight who are both in their primes, Dwight being older and having a window, basically Brewer and Josh Smith falling on our laps, we really need a vet PG. Any PG available there at 18, whether it be Tyus Jones, Grant, Wright, Rozier are not going to be running this team next year with Harden.

We need a vet with experience. Llull just won 4 trophies last year in what's arguably more difficult league than the NCAA.

Hopefully we resign and get our healthy Beverly back in fold.

I'm ok with that. If we were able to sign a cheap FA like a Vasquez, I'm ALL for it.

What I don't want is to pass up on someone like Looney, Oubre, Dekker, or Lyles to draft Tyus Jones who I don't see coming in and contributing right off the bat.

 

Well players you trade for or sign actually have logged NBA minutes and have at least some kind of idea of who they are as a player, rookies you sometimes don't even know if they will stick in the league.

And even further I'd say we as a team do trade for and sign bpa.

We just recently traded for Harden and signed Dwight, both likely the best players available to us, they just so happened to fiill a need as well.

If jimmy butler or Marc Gasol actually came out and said I'm going to Houston, I think Morey would probably do whatever moves necessary to be able to sign either one and figure out the rest later. They definitely don't fill a need but you always take the talent and figure it out later.

 

Rockets philopsphy: (CH₃)₂C(C₆H₄OH)₂

 

Wrong. We'll draft the best rookie pg available and he'll come in and play 82 games for us. He'll start and average 15 and 7.

-Clutchfans

 

6'8 Power Forward who shoots threes.