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Rafael Stone: "I just think we're not a developmental team any more"

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by DaBeard, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM.

  1. Joe Joe

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    Whatever semantics one wants to use on positions, I expect FVV, Amen, and Reed to play 90+ mpg if Reed doesn't suck.
     
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    I just think it's hard to play Reed and FVV together.
     
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    There was no money in this year's FA - which is why I didn't want to overpay FVV.....

    He is way better than what you think.

    DD
     
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    I’m guessing the guard rotations will look more like Amen 35mpg, FVV 30mpg, Reed 20mpg. I think we will see KD and DFS playing with either just FVV or Amen. So one guard and the rest wings and centers.
     
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    We have 5 players under 24 years old from the tanking phase that we are still developing and playing rotation level minutes… and we don’t have a singular superstar like SGA currently. You don’t think it’s easier to develop end of the bench talent when you have a SGA?

    Im not sure why Cam somehow makes all the irrelevant.
     
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    Crawford won 6MOTY 3x. JR won 2 titles and the 6MOTY. One played 18 years, one twenty. There is no slight in bringing up those two as aspirational goals for Whitmore as bigger guards who were great scorers but didn't contribute much else.

    If I wanted to downplay his potential, I'd call him the next Harold Miner, aka Baby Jordan. He didn't make it past year 4.
     
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    And look where his team is compared to ours.:D

    I wonder if Morey would even be able to draft a team and put it together from the ground up. It seems like his whole thing was trying to find undervalued talent and having the assets to make big trades.

    I’d like to see what a Morey rebuild would look like.
     
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    You have nothing to base his lawyer side on you dont know which cases he has handled. This is you just hating on the dude. Why would his lawyer side even be relevant? He is a GM now and not a lawyer.
     
  9. roslolian

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    Very few players are franchise superstars at 20 and 21. Case in point SGa and Jokic werent seen as franchise superstars at that age. I dont think the biggest lack was a franchise superstar it was bad offense specifically bad shooting and fts. For example I dont think having franchise superstar Anthony Davis or Victor Wembanyama would have helped much.

    Technically we would have won the series if the team hit their fts.
     
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    Haters just cant accept he did a great job yet again and looking for anything out of context to nitpick on.
     
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    Morey already had a chance to rebuild he went to a team with Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons. 5 yrs later they have washed Embiid, PG and Maxey to 3 maxes and still missed the playoffs.

    Anybody who keeps saying Morey is better than Stone just has no clue. You know most of Morey's moves these past 5 yrs are just trying to get James Harden and signing Rockets retreads? I am almost convinced by now Morey is the one who is the puppet of Eli Wheatus cant make his own original moves just keeps getting guys who were part of that 2018 Rockets team.
     
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  12. Amiga

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    Stone is a funny and cool guy.
     
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    Which is what me and a few others said 3 yrs ago. When they signed FVV and Brooks, they were done playing the waiting game. I mean Washington and Garuba were 1st rd picks as well as Cam and none made it to yr 3. Everyone was getting giddy about all those picks, but it was a dirty roster in terms of too many young players trying to prove themselves to get paid. I mean OKC traded Josh Giddey for Caruso, so things like this happen.
     
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    How are you doing Felicia?

     
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  15. Amiga

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    who’s that ?
     
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    The agent angle is an overlooked one.

     
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    Until they get bounced. Then we'll hear about how Sengun, Amen, Reed, Jabari, and Tari are all under a certain age. Sorry, 2nd yr Reed who barely played. Better be ready cause we arent a development team anymore. Title or bust.
     
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    Not being a hater, everyone think this way.

    You are really stretching this nonsense.

    Lawyers need to have a poker face, having zero emotion. There is reason Rafael Stone changed jobs.
     
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    I would not play them together. Basically one of Reed or Fred is gonna have to be on the court most of the time. I’m worried about Fred’s durability, which is why I wanted to add another compitant lead guard. But I guess we’ll find out what Reed is this year, one way or another.
     
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    In slang, "Bye Felicia" is a dismissive way to say goodbye, particularly to someone considered unimportant or annoying. It's a way of saying "goodbye and don't let the door hit you on the way out" to someone you don't want to deal with.
     
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