We/Rockets definitely need players that hit 3-pointers at a decent clip. So I'm out on Kuzma. Suns are around 11 in the West, 2nd Apron Team. They desperately need to consider breaking up the team before the season ends. If the Rockets can pull off a Booker ($49.4M) x VanVleet ($42.9M) trade, i will give Stone his props if he pulls that off. Fanspro trade shows it works. Because the Suns are a 2nd Apron team, they can't aggregate players together. This gives the Rockets some drive and kick players: Player.................games.....drives...FG%.....Pts%....pass% -out- VanVleet.........31.............299....48.3%...37.1%...59.5% -in- Booker...............27.............328....46.0%...54.9%...45.4% Jalen Green.............33.............307....45.5%...63.2%...28.0% Here are some PnR (ball handler play type) 24/25: Player................freq...............NBA percentile -out- VanVleet.....38.2%.....................48.7% Jalen Green........40.0%......................51.8% Amen..................13.0%.......................63.9% Jabari..................2.8%.........................18.9% Cam Whitmore....9.7%........................100% Sengun.................4.3%........................90.8% -in- Booker...........27.5%.......................71.9% Tyus Jones..........30.1%.......................70.2% Jerami Grant..........9.6%.......................45.8% ___________ Be nice if Stone could move some of: Holiday, Jeff Green, Tate for nothing and acquire a $2M contract that can be flipped for : Tyus Jones : 12.6 pts......49.2% (FG%)......43.5% (3P%)....6.3 Asts
Can someone explain why the Rockets treat injuries to key players so casually? First Tari missing a month and the coaching staff continuing to act like it's day to day. And now Jabari breaks his hand and they're sitting around waiting to decide whether or not he needs surgery?
They don't have any say on whether Jabari Smith gets surgery or not, it's his body. Doctors present him with options and he makes the choice.
One of Ronie Lott's fingers went bad, so he lopped it off and played on. These young screwheads need to toughen up.
Anyone know his status? I'm assuming they decided to forego surgery, but I can't find any kind of update anywhere.
Good News for Jabari Smith not needing Surgery. That was I was thinking. Surgeries make everything worse. Fractures usually heals itself.
Another way to look at it: Next two are at home (Pistons and Cavs) then 8/9 following are on the road. Could be a good bonding experience for the team.
Agree with the approach as long as they give him more rather than less rest. We should count him out for 8 weeks total and then a couple of weeks to get back into game shape. We're going to need him for the playoff run.
His nickname came from him not caring about time management in team practices but I wonder if that nickname also fits with his injury time.
I hate there’s a non-zero chance that Jabari might come back in 8 weeks then realize he needed surgery after all. Don’t that already happen once already with another player on the team?
