Anyone else find it annoying that Stone grandstands about trading our top picks but never does?

That is literally his job, turn off your internet if you don't like it.

DD

 

Yeah I'm mad we drafted Green

 

Yes it is, PR is part of his gig now.

DD

 

Takes two to tangle. The read is he's not actively calling but willing to take calls.

King's 4th and Blazer's 7th are usually mentioned for sale. When I see other teams or even kings/blazers themselves for trade ups scenario, OKC is usually mentioned instead of Rocket's 3rd, because Paolo is not on the consensus 1/2. Paolo overlaps to Sabonis too much. They rather a crack at Chet if Presti marches to his own drum.

It's more like few are willing to pay the price to get Paolo but be OK if he happens to naturally fall to them.

For the teams that could need a guard; some teams like the Clippers, maybe Boston, don't have the picks. NY maybe, but may not have too much to offer.

Things could change on draft night, as Jabari and Chet, one by one are gone, some GMs may fall into a case of fomo.

Conversations are had, not much revealed.

 

How did we get senguin, I can't remember.

 

@my time to shine
The draft is Stones “time to shine”….

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Is he organizing press conferences to say this? Or is he just answering questions that people ask him?

 

Luis Scola is rolling over in his grave...

 

I’ve seen it once right after we got the pick in response to a question if we were “definitely keeping the pick”. How many other times has he done it?

I’m sure there’s a half dozen articles regurgitating the same quote, but that’s not Stone’s fault.

 

My time to shine? More like My time to whine.

 

Exactly. This guy can't win. He's just doing his job.

 

A, B, C

Always
Be
Closing

Coffee is for closers.....Stone got a 1/3 cup for moving Theis at the trade deadline.

Wood, Wall, and Eric Gordon? Still taking up space

Get it done Raf or, "No soup for you (Stone) !!"

 

So basically a GM said one time he might trade a pick and didn't. How did that even register in your life as a significant event?

He might trade the pick, it's always true and rarely happens. That's the whole NBA.

 

Of all things to b**** about....did we not just come out of the Daryl Morey era where everything was at the 1 yard line and how close we were to acquiring this player or that player? If you prescribed to the notion that real Gs move in silence then sure I guess you'd hate Stone but all he's really doing is reading from the "How to sound like a sports GM" book and executing it.

 

Not sure why Stone being honest with the public is annoying. He's not saying a trade is likely...only that the Rockets are doing due diligence.

 

Anyone else find it annoying that Stone grandstands about having a first round pick lined up for a Rockets SG but never does?

Two years in a row now. They repeatedly said he had a first round pick lined up for a Rockets SG.

I get it, our GM is edgy and unpredictable.

It’s dumb though.

Spoiler

 

What’s dumb is that this was made a thread and not just a dumb comment I could skip over and ignore

 

His job is to create value and it's one thing to talk to GMs directly but it's another to create public perception/pressure. Which is proven to make humans question themselves including rival GMs and scouts.