The Rockets need to blow it up. I hate being on the mediocrity treadmill, this team isn't going to get it done Trade Capela and Gordon for assets and try to flip them for next FA class, I don't know, something needs to be done. If they are going to give up on this year then they can at least make it productive by building up to a big trade next year...otherwise...just trade Harden and rebuild. Don't waste our team with this mediocre 1st and 2nd round exit crap.
I don't see how the Lakers are better? Clips is debatable. Maybe Utah has climbed to our level? But they don't have an MVP level candidate Rox are the best in the West as of right now. Still time to add the missing pieces of a backup C and a 6'8 rebounding wing who can play PF minutes! With those 2 pieces we would win 65 games
Rockets aren't better than the clippers. Kawhi/George would make Harden's life a living hell. And then what, you are gonna expect CP0 to do anything against Bev? haha. Don't forget Lou coming in and dropping 20. Then you have Harrell owning Capela somehow.
Let the classic CF overreactions and meltdown begin! For the record... 50+ win seasons are NOT the treadmill of mediocrity, no matter what posters like JayGoogle try to claim. Same with 2nd round and WCF exits. Have a hard time seeing how LBJ, AD, Kuzma, and Green are better than Harden, CP3, Ego, Capela, and Tucker, especially considering both LBJ and AD are as injury prone as CP3 at this point. Clippers are intriguing, but who is their playmaker? Their best passer right now is Lou Williams so they need a lot of work to figure out who is handling the rock. Utah definitely made the most progress, but can DM take that next step? So far, he has not shown anything to suggest he can. Conley / Gobert connection remains to be seen.
Lakers have two MVP caliber players, we have one. They still have Kuzma, added Green, added some solid players but having Lebron AND AD is already enough to put them in top 3 contention. Clips also now have two MVP caliber players, although PG13 is debateable there, he is at the very least an all-nba talent...and they are deep as hell only losing Shai who was a young player and Gallo who is very meh any ways. Utah is a very deep team, lost nothing, replaced Rubio with Conley, have young players that can get better, and again didn't really lose any key players. This is not considering Nuggets who are also filled with young talent and the ever present Blazers who did add to their depth. Then there's the Warriors. Who will get Klay back in time for the playoffs (assumedly) and they are the Warriors and own this team. The west is loaded and CP3 is older now. Barring Capela taking some offensive leap in his game I really can't see it...
Clippers are definitely favourite in the West! Let's see how Morey and Tilman responds, probably Tilman gets scared and sits tight on his money.
Nah, it's not, but it's going to be. I'm talking about from this season forward, not from this season backwards.
Bev will have to start at PG. if they don’t re-sign Zubac, Trez will start, too. With Lou and Shamet, they’ve got a solid 7-man rotation. Nothing after that. Jerry’s got some more work to do.
George and Kawhi can playmake. Rivers will have his team throughly prepared with offensive sets. They are going to give the Rockets, and the NBA, fits.
And then he is "hurt" often. You lose agent traction. No free agent star ever trusts yiur org. And you end up trading him for pennies on the dollar because it is obvious you have no leverage left.
It's alright, I have calmed down. From Rox perspective, yeah, they got a functioning team (sort of), no cap space however. Clippers do improve their team by a landslide, have depth problems (minor ones).
Not really. At the end of the day, PG13 signed a contract. Money as you saw with a ton of players is still money. Bad sushi and racist punks aside, OKC's money is still worth as much as any teams and Presti is still a competent GM.
