Those teams had no upside. No superstar to build around. No youth worth looking forward to seeing develop. This team is the exact opposite. Youngest team in the NBA. Harden is a star at 23 years old. Quality young players with upside. This team actually has room to grow, unlike the others. This has been discussed time and time again. Very surprised you think the 2 are really comparable...
Les and Morey have said over and over they don't want to tank. They are the only team that has gone this route which is why the perception is the Rockets are spinning their wheels. Morey finally got a young SUPERSTAR without tanking which I think many agree is the toughest part of rebuilding; Rockets did it without tanking, mortgaging the future, or ****ing up cap space and taking on horrid contracts. What more do people want? Oh right, Bobcats...
PPat is a decent player. Nothing more and he was gonna get paid soon. We got a #5 pick for him. If he pans out we win big. If he doesn't we didn't lose much.
Looks like Pat made a lot of jump shots tonight from mid range and the 3 point line. Yeah, they are just jump shots, but I seem to remember watching a team earlier today who could have used someone to make some jump shots in their game. Does anyone know which team I am talking about?
Yep, this is the point and only point here. Robinson can still pan out, and a lot of GMs feel he has all-star potential the proof of that is he went in the top 5 (and actually dropped to 5) There is a chance that Robinson can be a all-star player with his skillset and Patterson doesn't really have that chance. The Kings are built on potential, so for them it's easier to get rid of a guy who has potential because they are bout to draft another one in a few months here any ways.
Or maybe Patterson would have bricked shots too since the entire team did. This dude was not immune to the streakiness of this team, if he was he'd be a all-star player.
The intend of both PPat and MMorris trade was obvious, and is consistent with what Rockets has been doing all these years. You guys, who are trying to make PPat looks like the missing piece, are out of your freaky mind. We may win some games with PPat as our starting, but inevitably lose more games because of his inability to become better, why not just give that opportunity to DMo and TRob's growth ASAP? NBA teams are always running against clock for the limited window their superstar can content a championship. and from the track record, all of the players we trade away had peaked in Houston and become less productive on other teams, it will be the same case for PPat and MMorris.
Rockets lost by 30...not 5,10,15...not even 20...30 points. Rockets bricked open shots tonight, all of them did. Even if your argument is that he spaces the floor you have to realize that some nights your shot is off...as a team even. Remember January? When the team sucked night in and night out, Patterson played laughably bad during that time, he's not immune to the streakiness of this team. He wasn't some stabilizing force that bought us out of our funks. He was just another shooter who played AT TIMES average defense.
The Kings and their player development and scouting is top notch? The Kings were the only team to pass on him, other teams just picked other players. Patterson would help this team more than Andre Drummond right now and even Anthony Davis...but you trade him for a top 5 prospect with not even a year under his belt every single time. I'm trusting Morey's opinion on this over yours or Carl's or any one else on this board.
Actually, I remember Morey was ecstatic when Patterson fell to #14. He was on record claiming that Patterson was #6 on his draft board. Another #14 pick was also proclaimed to have a chance of being "mini-Melo" and he netted us a second rounder after less than 2 seasons. All-star potential at the draft means nothing once a guy is actually playing in the NBA. You look at how he plays on the NBA level, not how high he was drafted.
