With Westbrook and Harden. Where do you seen them in the standings?. Say if they added somehow added or Got the Winning Pursuit of Serge IBaka? Health Prevailed for Westbrook. Ibaka - Green- Covington- Harden - Westbrook? Top 4 or Bottom 4 in playoff bracket? Beat the Lakers?
Should have run it back with Chris Paul. The Warrior Dynasty was the only thing standing in your way and it was officially over. KD was gone. Steph was hurt. Capela was hurt last year, but is a monster this year and still a better player than Christian Wood. Chris Paul makes another all star game with yet another team. And just moved into the top 5 all time in assists.
CP3 is a professional but he himself said the trade from Houston was a big time motivation for him to get better. Dude was showing a clear drop off his second year in Houston and then a had a comeboack season in OKc, even the suns version of CP3 is better than the second year Houston CP3. I love when CP3 got here. Didn’t have no problem supermax extending him but he was a big letdown in 2018 . He wasn’t doing the things he needed to to get the most out of his his body until he left Houston. I would’ve loved to run it back in 2018 after we lost to GSW on 7 but not the next year after we lost to gSW in six unless we could’ve add a third star
Lmao what a load of bs to start a post. Literally making trash up. He never said that period literally posted this several times. Cp3 had already prepped what he was doing with Houston going into his 3rd year that turned out to be in okc. Now that’s something he actually has said several times funny how you keep trying to stay with fake news dumbest trade in franchise history. And here they are now. yet again made the all star team. help leading another young team to a great regular season. They'll end up with one of the best records in the league. And he'll probably make all nba once again. All the casual's on cf's really thought they knew what they were talking about with cp3. Nah
Westbrook is trash. Running it back with CP3/Capela + Covington is an obvious contender; probably the favorite.
I tend to agree. Especially not with the system we were running. CP3 worked so well with Harden bc CP3 was a much much better shooter (and playmaker, defender, leader, etc). Harden gets triple teamed and he gives it up, the other guy playmaker HAS to be able to hit a jumper (especially threes) reliably.
It depends which westbrook. Look at this stats from Jan until the season ended, he was putting up 30-8-6 type of numbers on 50 percent plus. He’s been a slow starter for the last 3 years now. Then we saw an abysmal playoffs after he came back from injury. So even a westbrook at 80 percent is close to worthless, but when hes rolling, he raises the floor unlike very few and for half the season with us he carried the rockets and now has even the crappy wizards back in the playoff contention with a 6 game winning streak. Maybe the most volatile frustrating player, but can do things many can’t. With harden, westbrook, Covington, ibaka and green thats a hard line up to play. No guarantees, but its not a 5 you want to see on the other end of the court when their rolling on the open court, great spacing, great athleticism, length. Problem is, you need depth to win titles. With tillman we almost exclusively sign minimum players which can or can’t work, some players come to play for MDA bc his style is easy and free flowing to pick up. But the point is the non celebrated guys no matter how ou spring it even playing 15 minutes or less still provide and entire Quarter of plus/minus, those margins in the playoffs lose or win you a game too. And of course didn’t mention harden, when he’s on the court, hes shown he gives a team a chance to win. Like every other champion, basketball is about cohesion, espn would have it believe its played 1-1, you need the role players. From Kerr, PAxon, horry, Jr smith, Derek Fisher so on each year there are deflections, big plays by even again or ‘not worth it’ vets that are overlooked in the media on how they make a difference. We all blame a lot on in 2019, tillman says it was a killer instinct problem while we replaced Ariza for a minimum James ennis, then that trade deadline while ennis was in our rotation replaced him with a top 55 protected 2nd rounder, aka Luxry tax savings, we basically just lost talent and didn’t replace it. But more so the cohesion factor, chris paul says it here: Former Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul was on the Knuckleheads podcast with Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson and explained the impact of the Rockets losing Ariza. “People don’t realize, that’s the biggest thing that we missed. That was tough when we lost [Ariza] because he sorta was like the glue. He was that glue for our team.”
Westbrook is trash and has been for 5 years. Anyone with even basic bbiq knew that. That disaster of a trade slammed our window shut immediately. If we would have managed our assets correctly, we could have been rolling with Paul Harden Covington Wood Capela And been the best team in the league for years. Thanks garbage ownership group!
What if Houston Ran it back 1 last time? We would’ve looked legit but come up short... #KeepTankAlive ....... ....... .......
You lost me at Westbrook. We'd have a better shot if we had you, clutchfans poster Le$$, on the court for 40 minutes rather than Westbrook. I think the saddest loss might be Capela. He might be the 4th best Center in the league this year. Dude eats 20-20s for breakfast. I heard one show saying that he's almost as important as Trae for the Hawks.
That's a lot of words about a guy I am certain I will never change my opinion about. I hope someone reads it and gives you a legit response
CP3's second year play and injuries sealed his fate. Morey took it with a sandpaper condom to get rid of him.
CP3, Harden, Tucker, Capela That team could still be near the top of the standings now, and one of the favorites for a title this year. This season is almost more depressing when you think of that and think of all of the stupid, cost savings inspired moves and personality conflict that got us to where we are now
Not convinced Paul would have stayed healthy under D'Antoni, even with his diet/workout regimen changes. Obviously the Covid stoppage helped Paul tremendously. Let's remember that outside of 2019 (where he was clearly diminished) and 2020 (bubble season), this season would be the first that Paul has been healthy throughout in...I don't know how many years. I probably just jinxed him and watch him go down with a freak injury a week before the playoffs start. If hindsight was possible they would've probably fared better with Paul in 2020 with the Covid stoppage, but nobody could have predicted that. Maybe they would have been a contender this year, but I don't think it's realistic that they would have stood pat. Really it was the inability to bring Butler to Houston which led to the current situation. The "silver lining" is they got to jump start the rebuild, and if they get lucky in the draft lottery, that could really help the franchise get back to contending a hell of a lot sooner than rolling the dice trying to squeeze out what's realistically left of a short rotation, high-mileage old roster.
