Everything is luck in the NBA..from winning the lottery to draft picks becoming superstars, you need a lot of luck
I’m not saying Stone is the messiah but what do yall reasonably want at this trade deadline?? There’s not really a superstar to be had. I’m all for making a move to improve the team but I think realistic expectations should be there.
I would love to hear these posters who complain about Stone outline exactly how they'd have done better. It'll all be some hindsight is 20/20 bs and I'll be thoroughly entertained.
I take your point, but since he bungled the Lopez signing (giving away a ton of 2nds for nothing) and then had to blame Lopez. Then a failed plan B in Landale….hoping to get a playable backup center at the deadline is not too much to ask.
Sure but you can see a mediocre worker and a really hard working GM......you cannot be blind to this......Reporters and fans all see that. Morey was two tiers above Stone in being active...... I mean I do not think Stone is a bad GM but he sure is not a Top 10 GM either.
Personally I'm unconcerned. Our best case scenario this season is we barely make the play in. We're not ready to make noise yet. I'm happy with the significant progress we've made this year and the upside and development the young guys are showing. And the back up center position has been covered for next year, when we should be better still. However, I don't mind your take. And if, after 2 pm, we do not have a new backup center, I'll consider this complaint valid. But until it's 2 pm you guys are just being a bunch of negative nancys, and it's really killing my vibe on trade deadline day, which I consider to be a national ****ing holiday. Can we please put off crying until the deadline has passed? Thanks.
We don't see the work behind the scenes, people only judge from Woj and Shams and Twitter................there is no tv feed you can look at. Remember, Stone was left with nothing when Morey left He has had to rebuild a core so we can be competitive again
I think you see a lot from more transparent teams. The Rockets chose to be secretive enough and they chose to play conservative transfer politics..... That is fair but I doubt it would draw in alot of soft core fans.....
Let's return to the 2021 draft: #2, #16, #23, and #24. Selections: Jalen Green, Alperin Sengun, Usman Garuba, and Josh Christopher. Picking that many first-rounders on a squad was a mistake. Clutchfans had been lobbying for Sengun well before the draft, and I remain convinced that Stone took this pick to appease the fans. Clearly, Silas wasn't behind this pick. We could certainly argue about whether to take Green. With some foresight, you could have had Mobley and settled the frontline for a decade with Sengun next to him. They would have been perfect together. Garuba at #23 didn't seem terrible, but we should have found someone else to take this pick. The #24 for Christopher was a complete miss. So many other viable NBA talents were available: Bones Hyland, Quentin Grimes, D'ron Sharpe, Sant Aldama, etc. I had been following that draft class and remember having to Google "Christopher" and convince myself that he was an ok pick. At best, he was a 2nd rounder. The only thing he and Nix had going for them was that they knew and had played with Jalen Green.
Especially when you have two backup centers that are unplayable. One thing about Morey, he was good at correcting his mistakes.
So much BS about two low first rounders. Saying Stone just took Sengun to appease CF is the height of lunacy. He doesn't give a crap about rando posters here.
Also, this is a really weird way to downplay Stone absolutely robbing Sam Presti for the pick he took our franchise player with. Even on Clutchfans, there were people who didn't want Sengun and who didn't even value him after we drafted him (INCLUDING CLUTCH HIMSELF). The average fan had no idea who Sengun was when we took him, because he didn't play NCAA ball. Do you know how small the percentage is of fans who follow things like "who was the MVP of the Turkish League" are? I don't either, but I assure you it's super small. Most Rockets fans don't even watch the draft. You have to be an NBA superfan to do that.
Let them develop, this isn't the Harden era Rockets where we need to make major moves for a championship window. If the move doesn't make sense, don't sell young talented players and impatiently hurt your rebuild.
Nah don't you know Stone gets all his Intel from Clutch Fans and stays up awake at night reading posts here. He knew people would riot and give him a hard time on X if he passed on Sengun that's why he took Sengun just so posters here will give him a break and let him breathe for a second.
