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Poll: Top Pick or Play-in Tourney?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Dec 4, 2021.

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Which would make you happier to see happen at the end of the season?

  1. Rockets get a top 5 pick in the draft

  2. Rockets make the play-in tourney

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  1. hakeem94

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    Help… sure…. We would be better, but gathering the head cases/divas as your franchise players seems like a poor strategy.
     
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  3. hakeem94

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    losing mentality suits you well
     
  4. hakeem94

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    pls dont do them like that these people have wifes and kids
     
  5. dmoneybangbang

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    Benching KPJ over Matthews and EG too?

    Just stop… small sample size against mostly the fellow dregs and two feisty, close wins against Bulls and Hornets.

    Let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet
     
  6. mfastx

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    Thanks for the personal insult!
     
  7. Bobbythegreat

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    Those advocating for long term mediocrity instead of one year at the bottom are weird.
     
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    Depends on how we’d make the tourney

    id want to win a decent share of games on the back of our 4 rookies playing well .
     
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    not sure how that wording is an insult but whatever, if that is how you understood then receive my sincere apology it wasnt meant to be an insult but a playfull joke - a teasing
     
  10. hakeem94

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    show me the thread from 2014 where you predicted warriors will be a dynasty
     
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  13. Bobbythegreat

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    You talking about the team that had just got done tanking for 5 or 6 years to draft Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Harrison Barnes?

    I'm not sure that example proves what you want it to prove.
     
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    How many seasons has Irving even healthy enough to play the full playoff run? (It is very very few).

    How many playoff games has Simmons been the best player on his team, and his team won the game? (It's very few).
     
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    After reading a lot of this discussion and also a lot of twitter I’ve come to realize there are a lot of people who don’t know what tanking is. Very funny to me when people are vehemently anti tank but then say things like “we should just play all our young guys and if that leads to a high draft pick, then great.”
     
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    U do know that drafting in the lottery = the team was either sht or actively tanking right?
     
  17. snowconeman22

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    mediocrity led to getting assets and getting harden and then Howard and paul .

    how did the tanking teams do ? We only stayed in mediocrity for like 3 years ... and the first one was just hoping Against hope yao would be healthy

    who blew it up around then ? Memphis ? New Orleans ? Yeah I’m sure hasheem thabeet and Anthony Davis (I made the playoffs one time as NOP) were worth it

    sengun is looking better than green at this point .

    GSW had the 7th , 11th , 8th picks ... something like that anyways .

    racing to the bottom should be done infrequently , if at all .

    it’s not just one year . We already did last year . It’s one more year . When will it stop being one more year ? You’ve got to try to win games . We blatantly didn’t last year and we blatantly didn’t to start the year .
     
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    Tank has a negative connotation, plus a lot of folks think tanking is "losing on purpose".

    Hell we had folks on here not understanding the updated draft odds, hell there are still folks that don't understand how draft odds work.
     
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    I am going to use your own words to answer your own questions, since u can't seem to connect the dots.

    it’s not just one year . We already did last year . It’s one more year . When will it stop being one more year ?

    GSW had the 7th , 11th , 8th picks ... something like that anyways = That's three season of being sht right there that u just listed, going into playoffs u will not get those picks. The GSW were sht for years.
     
  20. J.R.

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    It wasn’t torn down in one year. It won’t be built in one year.
    Last year was the tear down. This is year one of the rebuild.

    They were lucky to keep their pick last year.
    So while they have their own pick this year and next, make it as good as possible!
    Picks back to OKC in 2024/2025. (One might be a swap) That’s when it should stop being “one more year” and they can hopefully start competing.
     
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