I think thats a bigger question on defense than anything. Fox can replace Jalen and we'd be better for it, but we'd still have a major spacing problem going forward.
King Amen ain’t gonna want another ball handler here and going to want that ball more and more. Fox would be bad for his potential
So what? Only 1 team is gonna be a champion out of 16 other teams. Even if they have their own elite stars they still lose in the end. The Rockets goal should just be to get experience. Putting championship expectations on a bunch of 23 yr olds is dumb af.
(Trying to convince myself into it) I mean, Fox shot almost 37% from 3 last season. This season he's back to 32-33% HOWEVER his FT% has taken the biggest leap of his recent career. That tells me there's a chance his jumper is improved a might be just months away from settling in at 35-36%. With Green also up to 36% on huge volume now, I guess this backcourt's shooting would be acceptable for now - although frankly we deserve better shooting than that from the 1 since we're so limited at the 3 and 5. The downside? I honestly don't think Fox will be better than Amen for longer than 12 more months and Amen will do everything better except 3PT%. He'll pass better, drive better, finish better. I see so much redundancy in Fox, Amen and Green. At the same time, I don't think we can truly gauge how formulas and algorithms and historical data could melt in the face of Amen/Green/Fox's speed (similar to Amen/Green creating spacing without adding shooting). That's the fastest PG/SG/SF trio in NBA history and there's no one even in a close 2nd. You will really see rules breaking when these kinds of phenomenon take place in the NBA.
Stop it. Theres a reason the Kings have always sucked with him. He cant shoot and doesnt play defense. The grass isnt always greener.
I know the kings want to dump huerter's salary, i would be willing to take him on if it means the spurs get fox. I think it's critical that they get saddled with that contract.
I thought the goal was to give yourself the best chance possible to win a championship, while not trading away the farm.
I'm not all that concerned with Wemby, he's sabotaging his own game .... he think's he's a 7'6 guard / forward and doesn't want to play center - he's not that great a shooter, decent not great. He's not really a fluid athlete either. He takes away his own best asset .... and then there's the injury risk with his height - one injury away. I didn't like Amen all that much coming out - the lack of shooting & questionable competition .... really didn't like any of the potential prospects and preferred to trade the pick - boy was I wrong. It's becoming obvious that we ended up with the best / most impactful player in that draft.
Nor were Sabonis and Fox before Sabonis moved more out of the paint thanks to Mike Brown. We're not going to move Sengun out of the paint.
Not liking what I'm seeing the national media thinks Fox is worth. I like Fox, but apparently not as much as what others think of him. Seeing the same with Butler. What a player makes counts.
Would love for San Antonio to trade for Fox and give both him and Wemby supermax deals. Was worried they'd end up with Flagg or Bailey/Harper/Edgecombe. Fox doesn't solve their single biggest need.
As someone that likes Fox, but not at what media thinks he's worth... They don't as starters. Fox and Amen would provide the on ball perimeter reps as the guards with Sengun also facilitating the offense. This would allow the Rockets to play 2 switchable defenders at the 3 and 4 (i.e., best defense in the NBA if Amen is playing with two switcahable defensive forwards) or a defender with someone like Cam Johnson to add shooting and some on ball juice while having height to defend SFs.
I could easier see Fox being traded to San Antonio and the Kings miraculously getting the #1 pick afterwards.
