i am not buying it... hes a chucker at heart.... either that or he deserves an Oscar for playing the part
What am I missing here? I have you by one day? As in, I have you 'one day from jumping your fandom off a bridge'? Or I have you by one freaking day because I am from the future? I'm sorry if I drive you crazy but I'm nicer that Driving Miss Daisy. I promise to maybe change my ways if they're one freaking day late all the time around here. That might depend on what's going on though. I'm cornfused. On another note: who is gonna command the tank now? Tanks aren't that easy to drive from what I've heard (from no one because I've never met a tank driver). I bet that gentleman from Driving Miss Daisy would be a good tank driver.
Yeah his game actually changed alot when he and Wood came back from injury. My theory has been that after the trade deadline when it became obvious he was sort of stuck here him and his agent had the strategy of him trying to go on a major scoring spree that could help build a market for him this Summer in a trade. Thats just not his game though and it really showed. Coming back next season if we have a good Summer where this team looks interesting enough I could see him being more of the John Wall we saw to start the season, and really helping the team be relevant much faster. Don't get me wrong I want him gone as much as anyone, but look we moved out 80+ million dollars in two star players. Someone like Wall is going to have to be on the books for at least a little while after you trade two super max players like that. The Rockets just need to learn to deal with him, and not have him disrupt the rebuilding process.
You trade a guy averaging a triple double and likely the best player in the NBA for mr wall. Those draft picks I hope will be used in the right way.
As bad as Wall has been for most of the season, I would still make the Westbrook trade 10 times out of 10. He still sucks, and knows no other way. Wall can be better next year than he has been. And he's been great for a team trying to lose games this season.
That's why I don't love this idea of selling yourself that in two years you can be a playoff contender. I think it could get in your head, and the head of your GM that you got to make the next Harden trade now, and you'll convince yourself someone is the next Harden when they are not.... then you likely just blew threw those picks to make that deal when we have no idea how valuable those picks could be. The Brooklyn picks have a very long window of intrigue. As you said, you just gave up maybe the best player in the league for those.... we cannot just trade those to get someone like Aaron Gordon who everyone here seemed to think was the answer just 4 weeks ago, and now is barely scoring over double digits in Denver. Again... we don't have Morey anymore (and Les) which puts me in a way less trusting position to go fishing for another Harden trade. 99% of the focus should be on the draft these next two years, and signing some value young players.
Wait, did you just try to suggest that Westbrook is "likely" the best player in the NBA? You can't believe that, there's just no way anyone would. Westbrook is just a more selfish version of Wall who plays less defense and focuses entirely on stat padding. He's arguably the most detrimental player to his team in the entire league and has been for years
Wish i got paid 40 million to work 1/2 a season. Hey Tilman how's Cp3's worst contract in the league looking? Lol
100% you don’t trade those picks unless you already have a very good top 7-8 team in the league. And likely I don’t want to trade the picks no matter the deal or I should say I would likely rather keep them. That I a lot of chances of having cheap good talent continuing to come in over several seasons.
That's a charitable interpretation but we didn't trade James Harden for Wall, we just traded Westbrick for him. Harden's b****assness was a completely unrelated issue caused by the team bending to his demands to trade FOR Westbrick to begin with.
As Wall closes out his year here. Here's a quick box score compare between him and Russ. Both guys have had a fairly similar year. Games played - Russ played more games. Can thank the Rockets for that, since we load managed Russ like year like we did with Wall this year. Very similar - Things like points, field goal attempts, steals. That 3P% are eerily similar, both guys very bad. Russ has higher rebound (padding). He also has higher assists, Wizards has better finishers; but will still give the edge to Russ for looking for his teamates.
