Yes. I thought he was a solid choice. He didn't work hard enough in the pros imo. I hope Cam Whitmore will remain healthy and be an asset for us.
You couldn’t be more wrong. Cam is a fantastic player at only 18 years old and played for a terrible coach with no discipline (sound familiar) and didn’t believe in playing freshman significant minutes over more tenured players. He still won big east freshman of the year and I was at the Xavier game where he tore us a new one. Also, injury issue is real as his medical exam showed cartilage damage which will affect him later in his career.
You couldn’t be more wrong. Cam is a fantastic player at only 18 years old and played for a terrible coach with no discipline (sound familiar) and didn’t believe in playing freshman significant minutes over more tenured players. He still won big east freshman of the year and I was at the Xavier game where he tore us a new one. Also, injury issue is real as his medical exam showed cartilage damage which will affect him later in his career.
You couldn’t be more wrong. Cam is a fantastic player at only 18 years old and played for a terrible coach with no discipline (sound familiar) and didn’t believe in playing freshman significant minutes over more tenured players. He still won big east freshman of the year and I was at the Xavier game where he tore them a new one. Also, injury issue is real as his medical exam showed cartilage damage which will affect him later in his career.
We will see, this seems similar to when the Rockets drafted Christopher and people were acting as if he was a super star we stole late in the draft. It seems like this board and the Rockets front office have been thinking alike the past 3 seasons. Toronto and OKC are very good front offices, if they didnt make a move for him then I won't be too excited until we see him in the regular season. Summer league won't really mean a lot either unless he completely dominates.
Sengun's current market value is about what we gave up for him, which is two first round picks. It worked out for us, but its not like he is some sort of super star.
I’ve posted this before, but people keep making the Anthony Edwards comparison: https://www.tankathon.com/players/compare?players=cam-whitmore--anthony-edwards
You realize Kobe and Paul George weren't known for passing when they were rookies right? Kobe recorded 1.3 ast to 1.6 to while Paul George had 1.1 ast to 2.2 tos. Somehow they turned out alright. George even averaging 5 ast a game nowadays.
??? Christopher wasn't stolen the sentiment st the time was he drafted to make Green happy. People were hopeful he's gonna be good but nobody had him mocked top 10 in the lotto. You mean OKC who took Chet who his leg before even playing 1 min in the NBA and Ousmane Dieng who has been a bust so far? Toronto hasn't really done anything since they won the title, their GM filled the roster with clones of OG anunoby and Scottie Barnes now the team is full of 6'8 playmakers who can't shoot.
Even with their consensus top 3 pick being out, they have out performed Houston in a rebuild, they fleeced us on the Westbrook trade. They are very good at talent evaluation. Their front office is considered one of the best in the league, ours is considered the worst. OKC's improvement without their top pick is where Houston was hoping to be fully healthy this past season. They have historically made some mistakes, but not in the talent evaluation department. Take a look at the past two years of drafts and where players fall in a redraft after the season ends. Guys like Giddey moved up and guys like Jalen Green fell down in the redraft. Jabari did not get a single ROY vote, while 6 other players did and he went 3rd overall. Toronto drafted the ROY w their 4th pick and won a championship with a well put together roster. I am just saying I will wait and see, there have been plenty of times where Houston thinks they stole some super star because they were willing to take a chance on them. TWill, Royce White, KPJ, etc.Christopher was rumored to have killed his draft stock over character issues early on as well.
Good point and I’ll add that Christopher was never supposed to go top five. Cam is the steal of the draft. Still think Rockets fans need to give Christopher and TyTy a chance. They look good to me for first and second year players with very limited opportunity from Silas and staff. How can u trust a staff to develop these guys when playing Nix 20 minutes a game.
OKC FO is indeed very good at talent evaluation but to say they have not made any mistakes is just too much copium on your end. First of all how you think we got Harden in the first place? So you think OKC FO didn't make a mistake when they made the Harden trade? OKC's success is pretty much due to SGA and not any of their recent draftees. Even Josh Giddey while good for a rookie isn't a difference maker for them yet. We don't have an SGA on our team so obviously we won't match OKC, but take SGA from their team and their team was terribad last season with only Jalen Williams and Josh Giddey worth paying attention to. Before you get off saying Rox should've also gotten SGA of our own pls remember OKC traded both WB and Paul George at a premium, whereas we got Harden who was actively sabotaging his own trade value. Jabari didn't get a ROY vote but Chet didn't play 1 single minute which you think is worse? OKC themselves selected Ousmane Dieng before Jalen Williams, that means they thought Ousmane would be better than Williams. Moreover Jabari was consensus top 3 in mock drafts, nobody can predict the future you want Rockets to reach and get Kessler at 3 or what? At pick 20 it's dumb to say "wait and see" cuz players taken 20 rarely pan out. It's a already an A+ grade for the Rockets to take a guy like Whitmore who was universally ranked in the lotto at 20.
Giddey and Jalen Williams were GREAT picks. Chet/Poku were mistakes IMO. I guess one of this type of freaky guys will work out one day, but the risks are too high…
You are right but as Wemby showed, those guys just keep on coming.......a couple will work out and stay healthy enough. League had Manute Bol and Bradley.
This is a strange comparison, JC was mocked to go in the 2nd round by most analysts. Cam was consistently mocked in the top 6 or 7 picks by just about everybody.
Not understanding why everyone is so down on jgup. He’s been a good bench player with lots of athleticism for where picked.
I literally said "they have historically made some mistakes", this is obvious to anyone who has followed the Rockets. Maybe slow down and sound out the words next time before typing up an entire book. You are way too old to have the word copium in your vocab.
