If you actually look at who is playing the most minutes, only 2 players over 30 years old (KD and Adams) played over 20 MPG last season and only KD played more 30 MPG. Even with FVV we would have 2 players 30 and up playing more than 30 MPG. Y'all are ridiculous with these narratives.
This is exactly what I feared would happen when they traded for Durant. My worst nightmare realized. There is NOTHING more boring or less exciting than watching a team full of old guys in decline who aren't legitimate contenders. Dudes who are just cashing checks. BORING! Hopefully the younger core can develop and carry them. That has to be the goal here, because just getting older ain't gonna get it done.
We wasted our trash years just to have injury prone old ****s and a mentally injured KD. Start over is the only way out.
From memory we were the 3rd oldest team last year. From that team we appear to be not bringing back Holiday 30 Tate 31 Green 40 Crawford 25 And have added Smart 32 Bogdanovic 33 Thornton 22 Copeland 22 My math isn't the best, but it looks younger to me?
If Copeland is on a 2 Way Contract, they usually do not count him when talking age.....only those regular 15 players. Maybe doing what they should have done a year ago, discarding the 40 year old Unc, then 30 yr old Tate would do the trick.....
I knew at some point we would have to start turning assets into pieces that fit, but I never thought that the front office and coach would be so incompetent that they would get pieces that are old, don't fit and cost just as much as the best players at their position. It's still possible to fix it, but we need a POBO to chaperone Stone and Udoka and hold them accountable for both ends of the court and the near term vision.
You literally said the kids who pushed for playoff contention turned into old assholes on the decline when Jalen Green is the only one from the kids who got dumped. Quit lying you are the ******* here. Rockets were never the youngest in terms of average roster age even when they made the playoffs 2 yrs ago as they already had vets Jeff Green Steven Adams and FVV on the roster. They were an average age team by roster age to begin with. Adams was 30 back then now he is 32 omg he got old by 2 yrs after 2 yrs. If you were gonna argue the roster was so young back then then we still have those kids back then today with the exception of Jalen Green. You trying to frame it like we threw out all the young guys just to become old is sickening.
and we're still not getting past the first round. At what point will fans realize this rebuild is absolutely cooked and we need to start over from the top, starting with Stone going first.
Everybody says this but are you willing to take a bet and bet the Rockets wont make it past the first round? Everyone I asked so far too afraid to put their money where their mouth is.
LOL.... y'all are so stupid. Let's not actually look at who is playing the minutes. It's like watching how MAGA operates..... just make up loosely based narratives and watch them take hold.
If you weighted it by rotational minutes we would probably be close to middle of the pack. There is something to be said about Stone's refusal to have young end of bench guys since bringing in Ime and entering "phase 2". Morey's FO was constantly running through countless young players at the end of the bench, 10 days, lots of trades, multiple 2nds, etc in an attempt to find cheap young talent, we don't try what so ever.
If FVV, DFS, and Adams played full seasons last year the weighted average of rotational minutes would have been much older. FVV didn't play at all and DFS and Adams played less than half a season each. Regarding the last Brooklyn trade, Stone said we were a young team and didn't need to get younger. Hence why he pushed the draft capital out a few years to 2027 through 2029. I think it's a mistake to eschew continued development. The average age of OKC's active roster is like mid-20s. Dort seems like one of their grizzled veterans and he's only 27. They have no problems adding 1st round picks to their roster every year and just added another lotto pick this year. They are willing to take flyers on 2nd round picks to add cost controlled depth like Ajay Mitchell and Jaylin Williams. They'll trade for young players like Jared McCain as well. When their main guns like Chet, JDub, and IHart have signed their extensions these cheap and young players they churn out allow them to have deep rotations. We only have Thorton in the development pipeline now. Amen and Reed might be extended as of next summer and we'll have almost no prospects to fill up the bench at that point.
