I love what I saw over the past two games because it shows how much more developed our young guns are to equal talent. Draft position isn’t that huge this year, as the top 4 haven’t pulled away from each other.
The timing of the wins is the issue for me. So close to the end of the season and the wins are just hurting the draft pick positioning. I would've been fine not being in the position of possibly having a top 5 pick if the Rockets prioritized developing Green instead of Porter. And gave more minutes to the young guys like Sengun, Christopher, Martin, and Garuba. Maybe the Rockets would have a better record, maybe not. But at least the young players would've had a full season of more meaningful experience.
No offense, but I'm not going to judge how well we're doing after playing a team that has almost all of their "real" players out. I mean seriously, those dudes are like their JV roster. Some of them are probably back-ups to back-ups.
I think our development has quite a ways to go. We're still working on inbounds passes at this stage.
yesterday was not playing against “equal talent”…not even close we played Krogers managers and Best Buy Geek Squad members our 5th or 6th best player would’ve been Portland’s best player by far
The last 2 games was a sneak peek at what the Rockets would be like playing in the G league. Due to the embarrassingly low level of competition, you can't take much away from those games....it was just a chance for the Rockets to screw over their future by winning a few pointless games at the cost of their draft status.
Sengun and Green have looked exactly as I had hoped. They are great against bad teams. Then gradually worse against better and better teams, but take it up a gear in big games. I'm really excited about how good they will be after a summer of NBA calibre workouts plus at their age. Summer workouts and a real training camp for the first time (last one was nursery) is an easy gain which will improve them on both sides of the floor. Arguably no other rookie will benefit more from summer workouts, these two showed up very very far from NBA shape and physical fitness is maybe the easiest thing to improve as long as your genetics play along. I think Christopher is going to be our starting PG. I'm hearing from Silas that Christopher puts in a lot of work off the court and I think he works out with Jalen which is great for him. Their chemistry will take over unless we acquire an instant star. He's looked great offensively at times this season, and his defense has been consistent for a rookie. A two way player who communicates, is unselfish and can score. I have high hopes for him. I have high hopes for Garuba too but he hasn't shown anything. Just bookmarking my prediction that he's going to be a seriously good NBA player.
Development morale is more important right now, imo. Team is getting a swagger going into a crucial stage next year.
lol @ picking out the 3 wins in the past 16 for them. They had more of their roster in all those games than they did against us, btw. Back when they beat Memphis, they had Nurkic, Winslow, Simons, and Hart all playing.
The NBA is too random for that. A lot of those wins, the better team cannot focus the same every game, I know everyone been preaching poise and high intensity. It is not really possible.
