He commands respect as a competitor. They can take care of his deficiencies (not the first team to think this). They can't trade for him anyway, so it's moot.
Desperate? They literally just won a ring. They wouldn’t be trying to add Russ to the equation if it wasn’t perceived as beneficial. But yea I’m sure you know more about basketball than LeBron James himself…
Yes they can. They would have to sign and trade Shroeder, and send Kuzma and THT and attach future picks.
No kiddo, they literally just finished 7th in the conference and got crushed in the first round. James Harden was dumb enough to force the Rockets to trade for Westbrook because he thought he'd be beneficial.....how'd that work out? Players are sometimes incredibly stupid when it comes to personnel moves, that's why you have a GM. Harden destroyed a Rockets championship contender by having the same dumb thought you are pushing.
I guarantee you those dudes just randomly threw big names out there ("who should we go after?") And yeah, a little desperate. LBJ has a lot of mileage on him and AD was hurt, too. They were ass in the playoffs.
They got crushed because AD was injured. They were up 2-1 before that. Westbrook would be an obvious upgrade from Dennis Shroeder.
Thats what’s great about Jalen Green… basketball IQ He brings that elite competitor mindset with the self awareness enough to play off ball, not demand trades, play defense, not be passive aggressive, come clutch etc. We are going to love him when he hits his stride.
You would be correct if you substitute Tillman for Harden. Even Morey was against it until Tilly made the call. Harden was not in control of the finances nor did he have the ability to add help to the team. I can tell you are a Harden hater first and foremost, so reasoning about this is going to be mute.
I highly doubt they threw out random names. This is a championship team we’re talking about. Not Portland. Beal, CP and Russ would all be logical additions. To take pressure off the aging LeBron. Its not like they are aggressively pursuing John Wall.. that would be desperation.
I didn't like the Westbrook trade. CP3 is a better player in terms of contributing to winning. But there are many gradients between "winning rings" and "terrible".
Russ was extremely good 1v1 defender in college - almost elite at it, but was exposed in NBA for inability to recognize rotations, switch or put effort off ball.
thats why you have the gm? what if you don't listen to your gm? " I was in Europe, and so I was six or seven hours ahead of them. So I’m talking at 2, 3, 4 in the morning. And we just decided to do it. They ran different statistics by me. My basketball ops [operations] got maybe a little weak at the end, and I just said, ‘We’re doing this. We are going to make the change. We’re going to go after it and roll the dice. We’re going to find that 5 percent.’" " Former Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul was on the Knuckleheads podcast with Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson and explained the impact of the Rockets losing Ariza. “People don’t realize, that’s the biggest thing that we missed. That was tough when we lost [Ariza] because he sorta was like the glue. He was that glue for our team.”" I guess unless you believe the owner is a boldface liar....or that chris paul is terribly stupid when it comes to winning....your numbers don't check out. Go Rockets.t
Detroit is not trading the pick, but keeps putting out leaks that the pick is gettable which has long gotten past the point of being annoying 1st time they’re relevant in over a decade, and they don’t know how to act…stop all the games already
