What if..... The Rockets had 4 shooters that shot 36% from 3 at approximately 7 attempts per game = Sengun/Jalen Green/VanVleet/Cam Whitmore would have an uptick in offensive efficiency. ________________ What if.... The Rockets had 4 shooters that shot 40% from 3 at approximately 7 attempts per game = Sengun/Jalen Green/VanVleet/Cam Whitmore would be a high octane offense with optimum efficiency.
Lol no, but they were 2nd in the east (by record), no superstar n no-one gave 'em a chance to win the chip especially vs the Lakers
Who started 4 HOF players (but one of them was a notorious mailman who didn't deliver in championships)
I'll only be moved by a statistical comparison that accounts for year to year deviations among one handed shot put attempts compared to hammer dunks and how they inspire zero dagger sum equations and the antiprism stellation that leads to chaos theory. Then I might buy it.
Chauncey Billups was better Sam Cassell and we have no one in this roster even close to that caliber. Let alone prime Rip Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace who is what we all wish Jabari would be. The only player we have close to anyone on that roster is Amen being faster more dynamic Ben Wallace and Alpy is better than Tayshaun Prince though much worse defensively. Not happening.
I would say Amen and Jalen have a higher ceiling than anyone on that Pistons roster and are on pace to have better statisical careers anyways. Just for reference. Chauncey Billups averaged 14 ppg on a 14 win team at the same age as Jalen. Rip was averaging 19 PPG on a 19 win team at the same age as Jalen. Sam Cassel was a 2 years away from entering the league at Jalen 's age and averaged 6 ppg in his age 24 rookie season. The Rockets have an army of guys who are significantly more gifted than the people you mentioned. The problem the Rockets will have will be affordability of all the talent they have currently. Pistons had the perfect mix of borderline all-star talent that didn't demand much to be affordable. Guys like Sengun, Green, Amen are all projected to be less affordable than anyone on that Pistons championship roster.
If we got to that point, whoever is playing the best would then be considered a big star in the league. The difference between Ant Edwards and Jalen Green is playoff success. The difference between Sengun and Jokic is playoff success. Yes their stats on a nightly basis are not where those guys are, but typically success and stats go together. So if the Rockets improve enough to be successful in the playoffs then it's likely that Sengun and Jalen's stats will look alot better than they have been. Success and stardom kind of go hand in hand. The reason why Ben Wallace and Billups today aren't considered superstars is because their playoff success as stars was pretty short lived, and Billups really never again was a 1A player while still remaining quite good. Had the Pistons went to the finals 4 years out of 5 Billups' name would be up there with the greatest PG's of all time. That's kind of why I don't really get the argument. Billups and Wallace were considered stars that year by all accounts. They just didn't sustain it. Jalen and Sengun make the finals this year guess what.. they'll be considered "stars" at least in the short term. Their legacy though... who knows after that.
bro i already started this thread months ago : https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/the-houston-rockets-are-the-franchise-players.324335/
Now that you mentioned that might be the only team in recent memory with no super star player and win a chip.
Unlikely, they have some good matchups and some awful ones. I don’t see this team beating OKC or Boston in a seven game set.
