#205 still made Reed cry last year in the playoffs. If you want someone to blame for Stone and Ime going after Smart, blame Reed for looking like a toddler and getting bullied my Smart. They witnessed it first hand
Rockets had no spacing last season. One of the worst teams at taking and making threes in the regular season, they were dead last of the 16 playoff teams in 3pt percentage. But because Ime is here we're targeting Marcus Smart. The Udoka era is exhausting.
I'm pretty sure it's Ime that makes him cry, you know, not running any kind of competent NBA offense and whatnot.... but by all means, be happy about Ime sabotaging the team with Marcus ****ing Smart. I'm sure it'll age well.
The interest in the salty vet try-hards is further evidence that Ime values “cool hang” over “actual talent”. We may not be good, but at least we don’t make mistakes and will go get dinner after the game. Like the huge coaching staff comprised entirely of AAU buddies.
I’m fine with Smart but we really need it to be Smart/Amen/one other person who is not a reliable statistical shooter. No more than that. although as I mentioned previously, in my experience, Marcus seems to shoot better when it matters
One thing about Smart is that he does actually take a good amount of three pointers--he would be in the top 4 or 5 players in the rotation for three point attempts per possession / minute played. He just f***king sucks at making them efficiently and barely ought to be taking them at all. If he were age 27 I would be a lot more excited about the idea of having him on the roster in the hopes that his efficiency would jump during his peak years. At age 32 though?
This is the dilemma we faced with the Stone-Udoka tandem. We wanted Stone to shore up the guard depth. But we didn't want Udoka to overvalue whoever was brought in so much so that the guy became a crutch for his lack of imagination on offense, especially a guy who is a lot better at defense than offense.
Agree with you that the minutes/responsibility distribution across all FVV, Reed, Smart, Amen doesn't quite make sense. IMO, the weirdness here is that you have a lot of notional "guards", but you have nobody who is actually a legitimate perimeter creator with the ball in their hands. Basically you have 4 guys who can bring it up, sometimes run a mediocre PnR, and sometimes do something off ball. Role player "guards" of one variety or another. But nobody who is actually a lead on-ball creator. Nobody who is worthy of being the guy dribbling the ball on the perimeter on a good team when it matters. Remember when FVV was healthy in the playoffs vs. GSW, he wasn't even that guy then, it had to be Jalen (who failed). Last year it fell on KD (who failed, because he cannot dribble or pass on the perimeter anymore). Seems pretty obvious you cannot be a contending team without someone who can be that guy.
Last summer we had a healthy FVV, Sheppard, Amen, and Holiday. Fred didn't tear his ACL until right before training camp and at that point it was too late in the offseason to pivot. There was no way in June to know that we would need a 5th guard before a 3rd center. And if we signed another PG it would look like we had given up on Reed's development entirely. Reed just played 32mpg in the playoffs. It wasn't a great showing, but could we please pump the brakes on talk about whether the Rockets consider him a bust because of FVV and Marcus Smart of all people? Fred isn't cleared to play and Smart isn't signed, both are old as hell. Neither are in the Rockets long-term plans. And Amen is not our future point. Our PG rotation next year might be Reed/Smart/Thorton for all we know.
Who do you think are the likeliest candidates that we could maybe acquire who could potentially be that guy? It could be a young player you're really high on as a breakout candidate. Just curious.
It’s funny cause rocket fans don’t want him and Laker fans don’t want to lose him. Lose-lose for both teams.
What lineup you think will have them shaking in their boots instead? I dont remember GSW shaking in their boots looking at Harden and Cp3 yet we still rolled that lineup anyway.
