Stone does very well drafting but he has to be great in FREE AGENCY. We need to sign Derrick Jones from Chicago(Small forward) and sign MoBamba at center, Buyout Wall, cut the players in the Wood's trade, and also trade Martin and Tate.
Seems good. Worst case rich man's Cory Brewer and Channing Frye. Best case, two elite and disruptive defensive role players to flank Jalen Green. Avoided the fit issue with Sengun, and the redundancy of offensive playmaking. Sets the stage to slot in Scoot or Wemby nicely. Almost there, one more bad year and then off to the ascent.
We got Jabari AND Tari? The rest of the league is gonna be sari they let them fall to us! Ty very much ...Yes, I am indeed this lame
When you somehow walk away with the number 1 at number 3 you won the draft, at that point Stone had an A+..... I'm still shocked Orlando dropped the ball this bad... Don't get me wrong, all the projected top 3 players were a prize but the #1 was Jabari... No doubt.... No doubt Stone would have picked up Jabari with the #1 had they gotten it.
I think it makes sense for them, they have someone who can potentially be a first option for them. with all 3 “ being so close” they look at what they needed and they needed a scorer.
Does it really thou? I keep seeing that they needed a scorer.... They need everything, Paolo is a bad ass pick up but cmon now...I don't see him as Paolo Banchero's Orlando Magic. Both Jabari and Chet are the potential franchise/cornerstone players they should have gone with. Paolo was going to be a sidekick to Green.... They don't have a Green thou...
Ci Compared to the other 2 as a first option scorer he has more tools as of now. overall who knows will be the more effective player out of the 3 in terms of winning basketball games. Eye test tho Paolo easily looks most likely to transfer into a all star level scorer at least IMO. Like you said they don’t have Green. We have our first option. Jabari probably makes the most sense and is probably the “ safest option “ I didn’t even care who we got as long as it was 1/3 we were always going to be winners after the draft especially being 3rd we got the one who was remaining and it’ll be talked about if Magic took the right player which you stated already.
Gonna give it an A- Could go up or down I think Eason and Smith are definite keepers, not sold on Ty Ty. DD
Likely he will score more just based on touches and being their go to guy, I don't think anyone thought Houston would be walking away with Jabari thou. Reason? They were picking 3rd and Jabari was a lock at 1 or 2 for a reason..... Looks like OKC had already promised Chet the pick thou. Will be fun to play Orlando this year..
Could workout even better for us as Smith who by all accounts has the work ethic and all the things you want coming into the league will now be even more motivated not being #1
A-???? Dude please STFU and get out of here!!! TYTy fell all the way down to 29 you dumb ass, what more do you expect ?!
That‘s an easy A+ for me. Getting Jabari is huge - but getting any of the top 3 would have been huge. I was a tad higher on Paolo, but Jabari is already an elite 3&D guy with a great personality and competiveness. I believe he can expand his game and be servicable at creating his own shots. Tari Eason could have gone a lot higher - and fits a lot of what we need. Between him and Jabari our defense should now be a strength. And we get a lot of flexibility - whether we want to switch everything or play zone. I believe both new guys should also be useful as help defenders, when the other team attacks Sengun in the pick and roll game. On offense Tari is great in transition, which is what we do a lot - and servicable as a shooter and slasher. So he should fit right in. And at the end of the first round we get TyTy - who was supposed to be a lottery pick or at least close to that in a lot of mocks. In my mind we need help at PG and TyTy has once dished out 17 assists in a game when he played full time PG. He can create for himself and others and hit the three and defend. I know there are questionmarks around him, but he is the 29th pick. This team will be really fun to watch: KPJ / TyTy / Nix Green / Christopher Tate/Eason/KMJ Smith / Eason Sengun / Garuba We can also use an all defense lineup in: KPJ Tate Eason Smith Garuba I can‘t wait to see this team play - see the growth in Green, Sengun, Christopher and Garuba and see the fit with Smith, Eason and TyTy…
It seems Morey was just eating Stone ideas lol bruh still trying to recreate 2018 rockets lineup in philly while Stone is so much ahead of everything. I just cant believe that in two years bro created so much potential in our core
Stone pretty much got everyone he wanted but Paolo but I think he will live with JSJ getting him might improve the team way more then getting Paolo, I don't know if we will be bad enough for another bottom 3 we have Def now I still want Victor.
I thought we could use Gordon to trade up from 17 for Eason. We got Eason and kept Gordon for potential additional assets in future years
All you need to be a great Rockets GM is reading CF posts. Looks like Stone does read our comments and took some of our suggestions (trade Wood, draft Eason). We are all GMs
