Addition by subtraction - which player should the Rockets most urgently get rid of?

with this jaylen brown talk you gotta think Sengun and maybe Tate will be mentioned in this deal.

 

No Kaminsky on the poll though?

 

I’d cut Nix either way, and give KPJ a chance at being 6th man. If he acts up then trade or cut him, but if he matures and accepts that role he could be deadly off the bench.

 

Getting rid of the coach is the real answer

 

At one point I was very much against Porter, but he has won me over. He is not a point guard and that is okay. I do think if given the chance he would beat Green out of his starting job. Porter is a really good player.

 

They think swooping in Harden and Brown will ensure those kids become mature players.

I don't think it's that easy and it really takes another 2 years.

 

Silas.

 

A good coach wouldn't be playing Nix, his *ss would be sat on the end of the bench. So doesn't really improve anything except adding a roster spot to get rid of him.

KPJ is the one who needs a lot of minutes but might be hurting the Rockets' offense by being too heliocentric. I think if you sub him out for a better distributor everyone else gets better looks. That said, in that right role (6th man) his heliocentrism is not such a terrible thing, and he's a solid player if you use him correctly, and he accepts his role. So I would more say "subtract him from the starting lineup in favor of a real point guard" than necessarily "subtract him from the team entirely".

But the real "addition by subtraction" is Coach Silas. Any of his assistants would be better than him at this point, let alone an actually proven coach.

 

If Bucks GM called you right now and and said Giannis for Smith/Eason and two Nets picks you would agree to that trade in a tenth of a second

You would do it for Luka as well

 

Well, yeah, anything is fungible for a legitimate top 5 player who immediately adds like 20 wins to your team and attracts other stars to play here. The whole goal of rebuilding is to find one of those guys and have enough space/assets to build around him.

But you don't trade serious assets for the likes of Jaylen Brown, who falls somewhere in the latter half of the top 20, at this stage of the rebuild, like people have been discussing. That way lies mediocrity, and anyway, I'm bullish on Green, Sengun, and/or Smith developing into similar-caliber players in the near future (within 2 seasons or so).

 

I was just replying to that poster who claimed those two were definite keepers, which they would not be definite if the Bucks called with that offer I mentioned

I would wait and see if Brown request a trade or when he becomes a free agent which I think is on the horizon

I Am bullish on that trio as well

 

Anybody who cant act right and we dont know about it

probably Stone lmao

 

There are a heck of a lot more than 2 players players I would agree to!!

Not sure I was getting at them being untradeable

 

I voted Nix; I meant KPJ.

 

Lol at Sengun voters. Lifetime basketball games watched: sub 10.

 

I obviously voted KPJ, because he once again whittled my resolve down to zero and I haven't watched a Rockets game for the past week and won't again this season. The same thing happened last year.

I just have had my fill of a watching a guy I absolutely loathe.

And honestly, Jalen Green isn't too far behind him. He doesn't get me angry like KPJ does, but I sure don't enjoy watching him play on one side of the court each night.

 

I was fully ready to select KPJ, but including Nix makes it almost an automatic selection. Dude has no business getting NBA minutes as anything other than a 12th man off the bench in garbage time.

I still think KPJ has a future in this league as a sparkplug 6th man off the bench. If he's willing to accept that role as the Rockets find a new true PG to run the offense, and as long as he can continue to mature on and off the court, I'm fine with him staying in Houston. But I don't think a starting lineup with both Green and KPJ in it has a chance to seriously contend in this league, and Green has the far higher ceiling.