If teams are tanking for Wemby the Rockets should....?

It's really not though. If the team that ended the season played the entire season they win significantly more than 25 games. Hell if you could just take Jalen Green from the end of the season and have him from the start, the Rockets might win 30.

Adding to the team you had at the end of last season and being worse than the team that ended last season would be a disaster.

 

They are starting KPJ so obviously they are still tanking

 

Call me crazy but I think it's entirely plausible we can go deeper into our bench to tank while also developing our main guys.

 

I heard that Wemby doesn't even like Houston and that's coming from an anonymous imaginary source.

 

The Rockets are in the Wemby sweepstakes organically when they decided to go full blown rebuild mode, which is really starting year 2 of it since they have had two lottery picks since it began with Green and now with J Smith, also with the other nice picks to go along with those two

now depending on what selection tier it will end up in remains to be seen but the main focus should be supreme high reps for the past two draft selected players and being highly competitive in games regardless of the outcome because full blown rebuilds take at the minimum 3 years, regardless if you draft a Shaq/KD etc. (though that speeds up the faith-hope process significantly).

27 to maybe 33/35 wins (max) is probably where they end up, and if they are super lucky, they may end up with a top 2/3 pick again, the NBA is a business first and last and they need a new young team to latch on to who has a player(s) that are marketable with the game to back it up, Rockets are trending in that direction with their young talent.

 

The great Rockets tank debate

“We’re going to throw our whole season away for a 14 percent chance at Victor Wembenyama?”

Absolutely not. We’d be throwing away our whole season for a 100 percent chance to draft one of Victor Wembenyama, Scoot Henderson, Amen Thompson, Cam Whitmore or Nick Smith. If the Rockets were the second or third-worst team in the NBA, you could expand that list to include Dariq Whitehead, Ausar Thompson, Keyonte George or whoever you like. The point is this:

This draft is deep. This is a “shoot for the moon” situation — the teams with the top lottery odds will be among the stars either way.

https://www.thedreamshake.com/2022/...banyama-scoot-henderson-jalen-green-nba-draft

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Is this draft deep? I thought it top heavy.

 

Continue to play Rockets basketball and whatever you do don’t listen @DaDakota

 

Got a chance to get a once in a century player, I say take it. Going to turn your franchise into gold.

 

I can give you 500 million reasons why Tilman is going to tank.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/teen-basketball-player-victor-wembanyama-194538573.html

 

I watch the clips and think which is the craziest, but they're all crazy. Is it the fading right 3 he makes look simple or the step back 3 from the hash, the baseline turnaround J's or the crazy handles. He runs the court like a gazelle, attacks the rim and all shots at it like a hawk. Seems like a terrible fit. I'm sure any of our bigs will be able to handle him no doubt.

 

So JG, Bari, Tari and whoever, wouldn't want to play with Wemby? The kid that ALL of their heros are on record screaming his praises? Some people reference Lebron's take on certain players like it matters, but ignore his take that Wemby's "not a unicorn, he's an alien". Then there's many other explayers stating "the league is not ready for him".

I'm sure those guys would hate having him on their side. LOL. Don't skimp out on the reply... would love to hear the argument.

 

It'll be whatever the tanking crew needs it to be in order to justify the Rockets becoming the Sacramento Kings and being a joke every single year.

 

I thought you wanted to be the kings…..why the change of heart now? Didn’t you want to shoot for the playin game instead of tanking? Kings 101!

 

What an ugly loss to Miami's 3rd stringers! Time to tank for Wemby!

 

Based on how the preseason looks
We are about to land
Ho So Fat
@Jontro

 

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Be real. Jalen matters. Jabari matters. Tari has a chance. The rest don’t matter

 

I look at it from a trade perspective. Would a team wanting kpj thrown in hinder a trade? Of course not. Would green or jabari? Absolutely untouchable at the moment. Tari is hard to say since he has played 0 games but i like him a lot, he would be 3rd and that’s where the list ends