Patience People, Rome Wasn't Built in a Day and Neither Will This Rebuild

Kings about to be successful af confirmed.

 

We will get there. If the youngsters play hard for now wisdom and winning will come later. Right now the team has to craft an identity about what type of basketball team they want to be and build habits with those principles in mind

 

Green= 6'6 with 6'7 wing span. Needs to improve ball handling, change shooting mechanics, doesn't play D, but he has the Kobe mentality is all I hear. Mobley = 6'11 with a 7'4 wingspan. Dribbles great for a big man. Plays good defense with great defensive awareness. Good shot blocker. Great shooting touch.. his only knock needs to get stronger.
1 guy = can't can't can't can't
1 guy = can can can can can....

 

When Jalen Green is handling the ball in the half-court he seems to always be working away from the basket. Even when he is outside the 3-pt line at the top of the key he will turn his back to the basket and sort of work towards the half-court line as he is trying to diagnose his options. He is hesitant to drive to the tin, so much so that he literally does the opposite. He has jitterbug/electric athleticism that is easy to see but at this moment in time (after game #1 of his NBA career) he knows very little about how to deploy his athleticism. Both Jalen Green and KPG take superfluously difficult perimeter shots and need to seriously develop their decision making and ball security this year. Conversely, last night Sengun looked like a mix between an athletic version of Nikolas Jokic and Andre Kirelenko in his prime.

I am with the user who started this thread, it is WAY too early in these young guy's career to make any sort of genuine or shrewd evaluation on who they are/will become as an NBA player. I think we need to see them play in 45-50 games, and maybe even a full NBA season before passing serious judgment on them.

 

Sorry this doesn't apply to rookies name Jalen Green. For him, Success is the only part of Success.

 

Patience people. Tilman did not destroy the team in one year and he will not fix it in one year.

Tilman destroyed the team in 3 short years. Now he has 3 short years to fix it!
DO SOMETHING TILMAN!

 

Do we count last year as Year 1 or this year as Year 1?

 

I consider this year one.

Last year was the “final” tear down. This is year one post tear down.

 

Makes sense.

 

Tilman/Cal are ranked 1&2 as the GOATs at expedient franchise demolition

 

Another was OKC Thunder - Scott Brooks. KD and Russ went 23-59 in one season and then 3 years later they made it to the finals.

 

Agree with this. We need to come out of this season knowing who our core 4 or 5 young guys are who have taken ownership of the team/locker room and hopefully seeing a budding culture of hard work and joy in doing that hard work together. Excited to see these guys grow throughout the season.

 

Rome was built with bricks tho... won't take long

 

The 76ers. Then they figured out Brett Brown was the real problem.

 

Young teams will have bad defense and lose games. Things will get better but it will take time. Instant gratification is seldom achieved in sports.

 

My biggest issue right now is this team needs a veteran PG. Honestly John Wall would help their team tremendously if he promised to be a team guy and distribute the ball to the young guys, be a good leader and defender and take care of the ball. As constructed, this team does not have a PG at all, even Augustin is more like a really small 2 guard in my opinion.

If they think Porter is a young Harden that's fine, but they need to realize even Harden always played with a PG. Lin, Paul, Westbrook. Without starting a true PG this team is going to average 20+ turnovers a game and might finish last in the West. That could hurt their long run development more than Wall taking a couple shots away from Porter and Green. Again, if Wall pledged to be a veteran ball handler/distributor and helped limit the team TOs, he could actually really help. It's too bad. I hope they get some type of a PG, or point forward like Simmons to help take care of the ball and cut down on the slew of turnovers this team will have.

 

I'll just note that while Rome wasn't built in a day, after self-serving, venal, idiot emperors like Caligula, Nero, and Commodus burned it all down, the rebuild didn't come close to the original. Olajuwon, er, Augustus I mean, wouldn't have let barbarians storm the gates and sack the town. Our owner has been fiddling since he assumed the throne.

 

"He will bring us death, and we will love him for it."

 

I think a lot of fans here are spoiled by the last 20 years where the Rockets never really got to being that bad for multiple seasons. The team never had to go through this since they drafted Yao Ming basically.