I am curious to see how well Green would look alongside a real point guard. KPJ is doing well as a pseudo pg, but when he plays alongside Green and wood. Green always end up being standing at the 3 as a spot up shooter.
Kept tabs on him this Celtics season. He's been inconsistent. Ime played him with 2nd unit and as starter some nights. He had really good games and bad ones. Defensively he has gaps too. He still flops like his OKC days and does that 'walk the dog' when bring ball up the court. Celtics fans won't shed tears with him traded. As bad as he can be, compare to our guards, he probably is better. I don't see Silas starting him, still KPJ. My hope is he doesn't cut in to Christopher's minutes. Or maybe Silas play him as a shooting guard backup. Dennis is bought here because he's cheap. $5 mil and UFA after this year. This is salary shredding for the Fertitta family. And a roster spot opens up for next season. I'm not a big fan of Theis, but with Theis gone it kinda means Rockets are more locked into Wood. Because Stone wouldn't just let Silas have one center. Even if Garuba is called up, Garuba is more a PF height. Rockets better hope they get a top 3 pick and draft a Chet or Jabari.
He is considered one of the most selfish players in the NBA by other players… he isn’t well liked by his past teammates… he is a terrible defender and inconsistent. He also is not known as a hard worker. He is lightening quick and can get hit but isn’t consistent. He is also just about the worst player to add to the Rockets…. Selfish, attitude, doesn’t work hard and is a guard.
This is pretty much par for the course for this era of Rockets basketball (the Terrible Tilman era). You want to develop a 21 year old PG. You want to develop a 20 year old SG you just used (I won't say wasted) the second overall pick on. And you... bring in a horrible teammate in the locker room, not only that but someone who won't help them advance, but rather take opportunities and reps away from them? If that doesn't spell out what life is like in Stone and Tilman Fertitta-land, I don't know what will. Maybe this will. Your marquee off season signing who you gave a 4 year contract to.... being shipped off after only half a season AND you have to take back contracts in order to do it. @ThatBoyNick Look at me now pa!
Wood… Porter… Schroeder … Stone is getting some really high character guys to be around the young guys… can’t see any drawbacks at all… I’m sure a strong coach like Silas will be able to handle this well.
I guess this is the "Culture Reset" that Tilman was talking about https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/tillman-culture-reset.307356/ @DaneB
Yup… there zero reason not to cut him. He is an expiring contract, he will take minutes from the young players and is a bad guy…. So of course Stone and Silas decided to keep him and put him in the rotation. Im was critical of the Theis signing and felt Augustin was washed… but at least they are hard workers that set a good example and we’re good teammates….
Yup…see, this that bullish!t. Silas is really planning to run Schroder and Eric Gordon out there, they are going to win us some meaningless games and screw our future up while also taking developmental minutes away from Nix, KPJ, Christopher, and Green.
He's 28 so I suppose if they like him and can lock him up as a 6th man for 3-4 years for cheap while his stock is low it's not the worst thing in the world, but I am not really anymore excited about that than I am having Daniel Theis on the roster.
Has his defense really fallen off that much? i remember against the thunder, he was playing some pretty good perimeter defense, unless i'm mistaken. anyhow, these are the types of guys that a team like us needs to take a chance on to sign cheap, they've lowballed their own talent. i would sign him for like 3 or 4 million a year at like 7 million a year if he'd take it.
Seems like just another way to add flexibility for the 2023 offseason when the expectation will be to build a competitive roster.
