Durant traded to Houston for Green, Brooks, #10 pick, and multiple 2nd rounders

More like WHAT in the hell is a Daeqwon Plowden? As in “my doctor said I had a mild case of Daeqwon Plowden on my left calf, so he gave me a topical steroid and told me to keep my leg dry for the next week.”

 

Assuming Lakers get Landale and whitmore i bet.

Seven teams on twitter :

Rockets, Suns, Lakers, Hawks, Nets, Warriors and Timberwolves

Wonder what the Nets warriors and Timberwolves are getting? hmmm

This has to be cap, doesnt make sense.

 

Some version of Daequan Olajuwon.

 

Might not be popular opinion coming from a guy that briefly met Durant and grew up around him in the DMV, but him being part of that Warriors 2018 and injured but on that 2019 roster makes him a forever foe as a Rockets fan.

 

Where would kd rank in the all time rockets list after his stint with us is done i wonder.

 

I dont like trading with the lakers. please dont stone.

 

I see this as his irrational side like MJ's competitive gambling. Safer but immature as well. From what I have seen he lives bball and from knowing how hard he has worked I just think he gets a ton of fun and enjoyment out of it probably to relieve stress. Finna smoke these fools on X. I don't know if he plays 2K or other games but I could see him on multiplayer just endlessly talking ****.

 

As long as he puts up 25 PPG on 50/40/90 he can bully kids at the local playground for all I care.

 

Stone is an idiot to get more teams involved and give up Cam to your competition.

 

If the trade is expanded it is reasonable to expect that cap manipulation is the goal. I think they want to maneuver around to get more room under the 1st Apron to more easily make adjustments near the trade deadline. The Rockets don’t give a damn about Cam, because Cam didn’t give a damn about the Rockets.

 

Posters are stuck on the idea that we are still re-building. Keep talking about development.

We were the 2nd seed last year. We added a 37-year old ready to win KD. The least of our worries should be attempting to develop a player like Cam when the odds are stacked against him to getting enough minutes to not be a ball hog.

The 9 man rotation is pretty much set:

PG - FVV/Reed
SG - Amen
SF - KD/Eason
PF - Smith/DFS
C - Sengun/Adams

Maybe he could carve out a few minutes at SG since the guard line up is lacking, but it would be very likely that he would be unhappy with a 10 - 15 minute role as a 3rd year player. I know injuries will happen through the year and there will be opportunities for him to get more minutes, but the reality is that Udoka is capable of going with a shorter line up rather than expanding his line up if he does lose people to injuries. Holiday/Green/Tate are all situational players that will get minutes when there are injuries because they will play their ass off no matter what. Capela will carve out minutes when Adams can't play.

Whitmore, for all the talent in the world has not shown that he is willing to be a team player. He is likely to become a rotation player for another team due to his offensive ability, but I certainly am not concerned that he is going to leave the Rockets and become an All Star.

As a team we need to move on and like you mentioned, we need to have flexibility to make in-season moves since will be hard capped under the 1st apron.

 

Daeqwon Plowden sounds like an alias

sounds like the name u put on your fake ID

 

Nothing against you, but for the life of me, why do people insist on putting players in anything but the obvious spot?! FDS is either our starting or back up 2/3, not a freaking back up 4.

 

We were a 2nd seed with him playing 82 games fool. Win?

 

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/plowdda01.html

3% is unreal. Hits his FTs.

G-League stats: https://www.basketball-reference.com/gleague/players/p/plowdda01d.html

 

My point is that he is part of the 9 man line up. And he is a viable back up 4 as well. It really doesn't matter to me, when you have Amen/DFS/KD/Jabari/Sengun, that line up is going to be switching a lot anyways, so the position does not matter a whole lot.

 

They already need to expand the trade to fit in Capela trade from Atlanta. The only question is whether they can also fit in DFS as a S&T rather than MLE signing. That would lift the 1st apron hard cap they are currently in due to using NTMLE. Would be interesting but I think it will require the Nets to use some of their capspace as part of the shennanigans.

 

Sounds like an action verb. Cam Whitmore daeqwon plowden his way to the rim @DaDakota