That would be a killer lineup IF FVV, Brooks, and Bari could be consistently good at shooting. Unfortunately, they are not. All three of them are streaky as hell. FVV and Brooks are what they are, being in the league for years. I am hoping Bari will solve his mental block and be a more consistent shooter. This is the Rockets' offensive problem. They don't have consistently good shooters to complement Sengun and Amen. I'm hoping Reed can eventually be that guy. This is why developing Reed should be a priority. I don't want to see him sent to the G-league as so many people suggest. That and Amen develops a good midrange game.
The "make him prove it" approach is certainly feeling like it would have been the better choice right now. It feels like we gave Brandon Jennings 30 mill a year. I hope he turns it around and proves he's worth it.
That's certainly where I was heading into the season before the ridiculous extension was handed out....now we're stuck with him unless we want to give up a lot of assets to convince a team to let us dump him on them. Before the absurd extension, he had value as an expiring contract, now he's got significant negative value. Since we're stuck with him, all we can do is hope that at some point he finally learns how to play basketball....but honestly Stone should be fired over that extension.
When I think development, I think long term results. I think Reed would develop PG skills more quickly in the G League. He's up because he's viewed as almost ready to be a rotation player, but needs to develop skills related to playing in the NBA and to develop chemistry with his teamates.
He can be traded if combined with enough salary to where the poison pill difference is a smaller percentage of the outgoing salary. Trading him with FVV, for example, opens some opportunities.
The G league does nothing to develop PG skills, it's basically a step up from AAU ball. Reed needs minutes at the NBA level to develop and there's no reason whatsoever not to get him more given that he's played pretty well thus far. Scrubs like Cam who need to learn the mental side of basketball and need to learn basically just how to be a professional and an adult, those people benefit from the G league.
I think Rockets would prefer just to buy off some team(s) to use their MLEs as trade exceptions to take in Landale and Tate. No reason to trade in season for a star (i.e., when PPP is in effect) unless we keep FVV.
You have to find a team willing to take him knowing that they'd be stuck with him for several years. If you try to attach a large salary like FVV, it just means that you'd have to take back even more bad contracts to get rid of a bad contract.
Not just the extension but also the pick. He missed badly on that pick. Anyone of the players drafted after Jalen would be amazing on this team,
Sure, but I've come to terms with that....if Stone picked a better player, the Rockets don't tank the next several seasons and they likely have a lot less talent now as a result. So, sure, it's annoying that Jalen is looking like an absolute bust and Jabari is looking disappointing....but those mistakes are why the Rockets have an embarrassment of young talent right now.
I think the immediate thing for Reed to develop is shooting confidence at the NBA level. That shouldn't take a long time if he has enough reps. Shooting is his meal ticket to be a successful NBA player and is what we urgently need right now. Playing defense against NBA players will also be beneficial. G-league defense is nothing compared to that. PG and play making skills take longer and the G-league may give him more chances.
I disagree, as long as Silas was here and KPJ around we were gonna tank no matter who we drafted. Also a lot of these players are now blossoming this year into much better players. Not like we ever got the first pick we woulda still been bad enough to get the picks we got.
I'd guess his on ball reps would go up by at least a factor of 10 in the G League*. Even up with ther NBA team, he's sharing time with other creators in FVV, Green, Sengun, and to a lesser extent Amen in his limited minutes. *Granted, I was not thinking about Cam. I think the Rockets would not want both Cam and Reed in the G League together.
My biggest beef about developing offensive skills in the G-league is the near non-existence of high level defense. Most average NBA talents would kill it in the G-league the minute you put them there but still struggle against NBA defenses. Play making is probably the only offensive skills worthy of developing in the G-league.
I’ve come around on this. I agree Reed could help develop some pg skills in the G-league. The problem is that we need his shooting on the rockets. But given how up and down Fred has been and the uncertainty around his expiring contract, it would be great if we were actively grooming Reed for future pg duties. That’s clearly not the case with his minutes so far this season.
No, if we got legitimately good players, we weren't going to be tanking... we'd probably be mid at best... but that doesn't land top picks. The current best team in the league is built around a 3rd pick and a 5th pick... they just didn't miss like we did.
Jalen Green and Jabari Smith are from Schools Of Soft. The 3 year contract looks mighty good and Jalen Green's 3 year tenure not looking so good. A majority of the category are down for these 2 diapers. Both enjoying the riches of the NBA, not the grind of the NBA. Magic punk'd us because we all wanted Bandero before the draft.