I feel like Houston is going to suck for a couple while with this young team. I believe we have potential for this team to mature and become great into a OKC type team (if everything goes right). Seattle evoled into a OKC type team, so can Houston, it will take a while though.:grin:
With the people we currently have on roster? No. We'd need to get that Durant/Lebron type player first which we can only get with a top 3 pick. That kind of player likely won't be in this upcoming draft though, maybe the one after (and don't delude yourself into thinking one of our current rookies is that player), so you'll have to wait awhile before you even have the chance to make OKC comparisions, and that's only if we get one of those top picks.
I don't understand why people keep comparing our 10-20 draft picks to all of the 1-10 picks that the thunder used to rebuild. Different story.
What "all 1-10" picks? They only had two. If DMo would have come out this season he would have been a top 10 pick. As you have seen, Lamb and Jones should have been top 10 picks.
1. Can Jeremy Lin live up to Linsanity? 2. Can Jeremy Lamb turn into the type of offensive weopon that Kevin Durant is? 3. Can Chandler Parsons take the next step from being a defensive specialist to having a reliable offensive game? 4. Can Donatas turn into an 18 - 20 ppg scorer that can grab 8 plus rebounds while playing good defense? 5. Can Omar Asik translate from a 15 minute a game player to a 30+ minute a game defensively dominating center? 6. Can Royce White use his unique talents in the NBA like he did at Iowa State? 7. Will any of those guys still be around if the Rockets trade for Howard or Bynum? I say that the potential is there to be as good as OKC in a three or four years but it is such a long and difficult road to achieve your potential that the chances are not good. But there is a chance!
They had 3 top 5 picks and all of them were great picks. Durant, Westbrook, and Harden. They also got Ibaka from a top 20 pick. In comparison we don't even have 1 top 10 pick.
Houston won't suck with the young guys, they will be 8-12 this year and provided we don't win the lottery, we might sneak into the playoffs next year. (around 12-16 range)
As we have seen? Dude, it was a week of Summer League games. By that logic, Dan Langhi showed he should've been a top 5 pick. You might want to wait until real games start to make declarative statements about what a player is relative to his draft position. To answer the original question, Houston might be the next Seattle/OKC if we end up with top 5 picks in three consecutive drafts. Otherwise, we probably need to go about things from a different angle.
