It happens. 13 other teams missed on him. The gif almost implies we missed out on the other players too. Anyways, Leonard gave up on his team and faked an injury for a full year. Let's never forget that. What makes you think he wouldn't have done that to us?
Would Leonard ever develop a shooting stroke at Rockets like he did at Spurs? And Leonard is another 1-on-1 player. So if we are to add prime Kawhi to the current squad, the offense will be even more stagnant.
we would basically have hawaii instead of harden on our current squad, except we'd already have 10 championships by now.
I think he would have. I was like you who thought Kawhi was a Spurs product, but I think I have seen enough to give him the benefit of the doubt. I think Kawhi is hard working enough and talented enough to develop into a star outside the Spurs system.
Mchale had a lot to do with the Rockets screwing that pick up too. Mchale is a disaster at anything but playing for the Boston Celtics.
The Rockets had the 14th pick but Rockets traded the pick for Harden and OKC selected Steven Adams. 15th pick Giannis Antetekounmpo Harden or Giannis makes you wonder Giannis was 18 years old and very skinny, with no jump shot whatsoever. Giannis roided up ever since that time for sure.
His shooting touch was developed by Chip Engelland of the Spurs. A guy who developed the shot of many spurs players and turned them into shooters. The rockets don't have anybody like that. While Kawhi might have still turned into a star, maybe a Pippen type role, i doubt he would turn into the shot maker he is today without the help of Chip. (side note: Pop made him study tapes of Kobe and told him to emulate his game. I dont trust the rockets to instill that kind of guidance into young players)
Yeah, you are right, Morey would have lowballed Kawhi......and demanded a paper from a doctor of his own choice. Kawhi would still have sulked. If Morey couldn't handle Royce White and Dmo, he couldn't handle someone like Kawhi who doesn't talk.
Maybe so, but do you think that Giannis is the only guy who does? In a league filled with the best athletes on the planet, playing an even more physically grueling schedule than baseball? (Which was an argument for why so many baseball players took anabolic steroids, HGH, and other PEDs.) Oh, and it's a league that promises 10s to 100s of millions of dollars (with endorsements) a year to its top players, who are often its oldest: LeBron, CP3, etc... Each year those guys can fend off Father Time is another year of gigantic earnings. You can buy a lot of biomedical science for a piece of 50 million a year. It'd be surprising if PEDs weren't rampant in the NBA. We haven't had a scandal of their widespread use though. And Lance Armstrong never failed a single drug test during all of those Tour de France wins.
