Yeah man the nba is an equal meritocracy. The Heat having Shaq wanting to go there to play with Wade. Or Lebron/Bosh signing FA deals to go there. Lebron and Davis to the Lakers. There was an equal chance they all could have wanted to go the Utah Jazz. Regardless keep spending that precious free time repeating yourself incessantly for literally years now. 100% well spent!!
Can you make Houston a vacation destination city like Miami (or LA or NY) so that former all star players like Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry will come here in free agency without offering more money than other teams? We're you watching the NBA in 2018-2019? The Rockets were coming off a disappointing finish to an otherwise good year. Harden had just averaged 36ppg, they were 4th in the west and were 1st in the west the previous year. And Jimmy Butler, who is from a town bordering Houston and was friends with Harden, chose to go to a terrible Miami Heat team that finished 10th in the east the year prior basically because it has beautiful beaches and women. The Rockets have no choice for acquiring that top end talent but either through the draft or through trades. They just rarely come in free agency even if we're the better on court option. Sure, the heat have drafted some good players like Bam/Herro in the middle of the first round but they'd also be terrible if all star and near all star guys didn't historically come there for the weather and beaches. I would even say they were in a bad position as a franchise with Butler/Lowry aging but I know they'll just get some other star soon...because Miami. Maybe we can do what Miami does for their championships and get Luka and Giannis to team up with Jalen here one summer. Then somebody can praise our organization for not tanking. This is the way the nba works. If you're not a destination city you gotta tank until you get a star.
Man, Silas has to go. He’ s just not HC material. Very nice guy but that’s about it. I really wish the rockets would go after Mark Jackson and turn this sinking ship around.
EG - I'm not having fun, I should have been traded two years ago. There is no improvement ......... in my situation. Really, Can you get me the **** outa here already!! The real problem here is that KPJ is the only player on this team who can break the defense down on the regular and generate shots for himself & others. Green is getting to this point but he's got a ways to go. This is really on Stone for not providing a better option - but what do you expect when Stone's agenda is a top 5 draft pick.
The compensation isn't the hold up, It's the contracts that teams want to send out in return. Stone does NOT WANT contracts that extend beyond this season and I don't blame him. I'd want my two max salary slots too, not some garbage getting in my way. If you try to send me three years of Zach Lavine, plus a 4th year player option ranging from $37m-$48m .... I don't want your measly first round pick.
Hell KPJ is holding the team back but that's because Silas and Stone have encouraged it by playing him out of position which makes it harder for everyone else to succeed in their natural roles. This dude is a turnover machine making bounce passes to Boban in traffic like cmon man... but everyone knows he needs to be a shooting guard... maybe even a small forward at times.
Partly because you can see that Jalen can actually play within a offense where the ball is consistently moving to get the best shot attempt. I have yet to see KPJ continue to move the ball around after one pass attempt... the ball gets back to KPJ now is dribble dribble dribble time. A lot of this is on Silas' lack of accountability on these players. Defensively everyone is equally pathetic but when you see the light or potential on offense it is still just a one on one game for KPJ. Honestly that's fine if you bring him off the bench as your 6th through 8th guy. But yeah only a contending team would think that rationally.
Agreed. That destination city stuff is a weak cop out. It’s really false anyways. Yeah it doesn’t hurt to be in LA or Miami, but players will join winning situations. Once the Rockets got James (who they didn’t tank to get) they were able to land Dwight who was a huuuge get at the time and Cp3, another big fish. Both left LA to come here btw. LA got Bron, but when they sucked, big time free agents weren’t beating down the door to get there either. Knicks arent landing superstars in FA either. Clippers have historically been a dumpster and even being in LA they weren’t landing a bunch of top tier FA’s either. Regarding Jimmy going to Mia over Hou, he said the heat culture is what sold him. If you think about the gripes he’s had with teams in the past it makes sense. Butler was never coming here to play second fiddle to a team that let Harden do whatever he wanted with little accountability. These players can go anywhere in the world on their down time. For the most part they decide to play basketball where the money is and situations they think they can win.
It's wild that so many people are talking about how bad EG is playing. Nobody is going to play good off a bad point guard. We are also holding Jabari Smith back with this BS. I understand why Evan Mobley's dad didnt want his son playing with KPJ. It just ends up being a lot of street ball one on one which leads to a lot of turnovers. EG will be back to playing good once he gets on a contending team where there is at least basic structure and an effective offensive philosophy.
Silas can't hold KPj accountable because he's afraid of him. Doesn't like confrontation. Not sure what Stone has to do with it, the Seattle connection perhaps. It's obvious that it's boiling over and players aren't happy. I still couldn't believe EGo came out and just said it like that. Not sure how the locker room is going to be moving forward but this should about be the final nail in the coffin of the EGo experience in Houston. Should be the end of the Silas-KPj experience as well.
EG briefly played with CP3 before Harden ran him out of town, when else in his career has he played next to a "legit point guard"?
Is the Harden trade really Good? *NOP got killed for the AD trade, but defo it looks better today than the Harden trade. *Gobert (scrub) trade is 100x better *DeJ Murray (meh player) trade looks better *the OKC trades (Russ/PG13/Adams) are defo better, even just for SGA, not to mention the gazzillion picks, plus players that got resold for more picks. For a player of Harden’s caliber, as disgruntled as he was, the return sure looks skimpy, compared to what others got for worse players
The Rockets have taken a dude who has the versatility of being able to play three positions, and instead of capitalizing on that versatility, have pigeonholed him into mostly playing the one position of the three that he’s the worst at. KPJ could be such an asset as a 6th man. He could legit be great in that role.
