ClutchFans Game Thread: Mavericks @ Rockets 11/28/2018

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I’ve always been curious to know just how much teams would be willing to give up for Harden if he was ever on the market. When was the last time a player better than him was on the trade block? I hope Harden retires as a Rocket with at least 1 ring.

 

Positive is House Jr and Ennis. Ennis when he started playing aggressive looked great. He can attack the bucket at will.House Jr is a athletic specimen who can be a solid rotational piece

 

Don't look now, but the Spurs getting crushed.

 

Have you heard around the league that Knight's career is pretty much over due to health/talent, or is this just a personal assessment? Either way I value your opinion. Just curious.

 

I’m not even sure the Rockets can rebuild at this point. Harden isn’t going to want to stick around for a rebuild and Tilman won’t deal him. Paul doesn’t want to rebuild either and is almost impossible to trade unless they move him for Wall and the reality is that Wall and Harden would be a disaster.

So that leaves improvements to the depth of the team through trades, which means moving #1 picks at some point and dealing Knight/Chriss for better players with worse contracts. Is Tilman going to want to take on worse contracts for a team under .500? Will Morey want to trade draft picks when his team is sub .500?

 

he is a good player who averages 19ppg when healthy, he is only 26 years old. Just too bad he is coming back from injury

 

The more other teams shoot 3's, the less effective Rockets offense will be. Other teams will likely shoot it more efficiently too.

 

My man!! Lol. I’m watching old episodes of Fargo.

 

Warriors will win the title again, they are miles ahead of everyone when healthy

 

Beal would be a great second option on offense and shore up the perimeter defense.It would also lessen the burden on Paul and relegate him to the third option

 

^this

 

I believe that he is still technically a Rocket

 

He WAS a good player at one time.... 4 years ago and multiple injuries ago. When he scores 19 points for Phoenix he wasn’t good, he took 17 shots for 19 points and was very bad defensively.

He is a contract to be moved and nothing more. We only dealt Anderson for him because he makes less than Anderson next year.

Nene is a warrior but he is old and is likely done.

Green is a back of the rotation or 10th man type player.

The Rockets bench isn’t bad, it is horrible and the solution isn’t Danuel House or a 30% shooting Gary Clark or a talentless rookie center.... the only solution is either acquiring 3 bench rotation players via trade (PG/SF/PF) or mailing in this season, cutting costs and hoping the draft picks and MLE are enough to take another shot next year... with a 30 year old Harden and a 37 year old Paul who has a hamstring that is chronic.

 

I changed the tv to frasier.. FRASIER. I would rather watch Frasier than the Rockets that sums up our season.

 

we are not far from 8th in the West but we need to get a better structure. D'antoni's system isn't even there anymore i don't think and other teams defences have worked us out

 

it was only 3 years ago. 19ppg on 41percent is ok......not much different to Eric Gordon's shooting numbers. You have more options when we are fully healthy, always having Paul or Harden on the floor would be a bonus. We need a back up centre anyway, that is where we are suffering

 

Welp, let's get Melo back in Houston. What other option do we have? Our bench has been atrocious since he left the team

 

I don’t get it. I know we need cp3 but this team still just looks off. I don’t know what they need.

 

Wall would be a disaster is an idea that the field must still say Paul and his contract is definitely
If you want to re-establish you must also take some risks in my opinion

 

Well - would be nice if we could win a game without CP.

Heck, would be nice to NOT get blown out when CP is DNP

Our Harden-era peak was last year. It's all downhill from here unless Morey does something and CP ( & Harden) stay healthy.