Cam Whitmore traded to Wizards for 2 2nd round picks

Not a mistake they didn't list his 0.125 assists per game.

Dude can score, sure. It's all he looks to do.

 

What seconds are they? If they are wizards seconds then thry could be like later 1sts

 

Yeah, it's almost like you shouldn't sign DFS and just play Cam......saves money too.

DD

 

I only read the first couple of posts…because I want to get out of the thread ASAP! So if I’m repeating, so be it….

Just wanted to say that it was STUPID, STUPID,STUPID of Stone to let Udoka dictate this move! With the amount of yearly coach turnover in the league, I’m willing to bet Udoka isn’t even here in five years if we don’t win a ring before Durant loses the battle with Father Time!!!

All the great moves that have been done this offseason and then they completely show they have a HUGE STUPID side to them!!

This is a Bagwell for Anderson trade by the Rockets IN REVERSE! I didn’t say Beard for Lamb because Beard was already playing at 6th man level, but Bagwell had huge potential but wasn’t getting the opportunity in Boston!

Udoka’s pride and stupidity won and the the ROCKETS ORGANIZATION LOST!!!!!!

I wish Cam well with the Wizards!!

It’s embarrassing to have a STUPID COACH and a GM WITH NO BALL’s!!!

 

I hate to say this but even if KD gets hurt we are a better team. Amen, Reed, Tari, Bari, Sengun is better than FVV, Jalen, Dillon, Amen, Sengun. We also still have FVV and added DFS and Capella. We aren’t real contenders without KD, but we are closer than with last year’s crew running it back.

 

You can't blame Stone for not giving up on the 20 yr oid with insane potential. I am not even sure why he got traded now, must be Udoka insisting behind the scenes.

 

he said alternate universe, which entails the rules change.

I really dug into the tape that draft process and I didn't have JDub above Jabari but he was in the same tier. Jabari's handle was so so so so bad. The draft guys on twitter hated his game and it taught me a lot about scouting. JDub had a lot of Harden to his game.

I would have considered Dyson Daniels and Jeremy Sochan in the same breath though.

The Rockets were 100% banking on Paolo be there and they absolutely flubbed the pick because of that. Maybe JSJ ends up taking the leap, they were not ready for him to be here and didn't have a great plan in place for him either. They picked the consensus BPA because they were banking on Paolo being there for them to draft. I honestly thought the Magic and Rockets were about to trade picks when the rumors started on draft day that Orlando was considering Paolo

Jalen draft, it seems like they made up their mind within 3 days of the lottery results. Not considering Mobley because KPJ is insane in retrospect and was really insane at the time.

The Amen and Reed drafts it seemed like the Front Office learned how to properly handle the draft process. Less leaks more of a process.

I feel like the FO was very understaffed and inexperienced for those first two drafts and it showed greatly. The Jalen draft especially. They basically picked the wrong guy at every single spot. It's a great microcosm of draft odds in general but it was ROUGH. Taking Josh Christopher over Grimes is absolutely BONKERS.

 

So Cam trade just invalidates everything Stone did this summer? Is Cam better than KD, DFS and Capela combined?

I'm as pissed as anyone but leave it to CF to make mountains out of molehills and be drama queens. Remember when some dude said we missed out on Cooper Flagg because Stone traded the Nets pick for Suns picks?

 

First time ever I'm really mad at Stone. Disastrous return, will come back at us like giving up on Hartenstein.

 

You have to know that this was a Cam decision more than a Rockets decision.

 

The lone positive is we didn't trade him to the Lakers. Good luck Cam!

 

we knew from beginning of last season that Cam will have issues. Reed started getting more minutes before Cam. Should have realized that he will ask for trade. You can’t imagine any player with his skill to just sit on bench and not be mad while other players worse then him in the league are getting tons of minutes.

I’m not sure if he will be a starter as his basketball IQ is low but you should get more than 2 2nds for his potential and young age.

 

Even in an alternate universe JDub wouldn't be picked third because he hasn't shown as much as some rookies. The only reason he got noticed were his measurements at the draft combine.

I don't think Rockets "flubbed the pick" 30 out of 30 teams would pick Jabari at the third. Just look at any mock draft from that year who had Jabari dropping out of top 3?

So picking Sengun was also the wrong guy? C'mon man. It happens. Mobley didn't even want to work out for the Rockets, said they were a bad org and you expect Rockets to still pick him over Jalen Green? Mobley isn't even that good now, overpaid AF and got bodied by bigger guys for the 2nd year in a row. Last year he got dominated by NY bigs now he got bullied by Turner and Siakam. Until when are excuses gonna be made for him? He is one of the highest paid NBA players super max+DPOY bonus. No thanks. Grimes is 100% a retrospective pick, if everybody knew he would be that good why wasn't he in the lottery? We wasted the JC pick due to Jalen Green nepotism but Grimes wasn't an obvious pick like you make it out to be.

 

Not happy with the deal, but this isn't Chernobyl. There is no guarantee Cam will be good much less great. Even if he panned out in the next couple of years, Rockets may still have had to let him go in RFA.

 

Cam was very obviously unhappy here. Udoka clearly did not like him, and I can understand why. He wasn't a fit. The Rockets are thinking it's addition by subtraction, but GD this one is going to look BAD down the line when Cam finally matures.

 

We have Cam's rights he is getting paid milliions to be an nba player. Doesn't matter if he is unhappy we even have RF status over him. Unless he wants to play in Euroleague we have complete control over him there's no reason to trade him.

 

This will end up much much much worse than Hartenstein. Kid is only 20 and has 15 years of potentially all-star basketball left in him. What were the Rockets thinking!!!???

 

I think many have mentioned it... couldn't get a lottery protected 1st that becomes 2 2nds??

I guess Wiz didn't want their pick tied up in knots

 

What I don't like is with both Green and Cam gone we lost two of the 3 guys in the core with the most untapped potential. Jalen for all his warts won WCF player of the week numerous times when nobody else except maybe Amen even has 1 and Cam obv has all star potential if everything clicks. Losing Jalen for KD is acceptable but losing Cam for 2 2nds is not, this move guaranteed to bite us in the ass.

We couldn't even get a PHX swap in return smh. And Wizards couldn't even use those swaps they will be worse than PHX.

 

No, Jalen was the wrong pick.... obviously.

If the Rockets pair Mobley and Sengun, they'd have been back in the playoffs much quicker with the best young duo in the league.

Also, as you've been reminded many, many times, Mobley didn't work out for any team but the Pistons because he wanted to go #1 overall.... that didn't cause the Cavs to pick a bust instead.