I genuinely think you have to put the main blame on Stone. Any other team except the Kings if you give them that many top 4 picks back to back comes away with something resembling a star, we got: #2 Busty McBustface #3 Jabroni Miss Jr #4 Busty McBustface, part deux - Return of the Brick #3 "I'm actually not remotely CP3 meets Steve Nash with a better shot and 1 inch less hops than Ja Morant" Whilst every single other team in those drafts has a real piece to build around. Even Alpi completely plateaued after dedicating his life to fashion and looking like a Saturday Night Fever extra.
True, but hidden gems are what alot of teams find. I'm not mad at the pick, but as we all see it was just a bad draft.
Udoka bad coaching and No bench is to blame. How you in the 1st apron with this squad is beyond me.???
We got only 3 points off the bench. Bronny outscored our entire bench by himself. If Ime and Stone aren't sacked in the offseason i promise i won't be watching the games.
The Rockets were not a dying team. Even after the Westbrook trade, they were still a 61% winning team in the COVID shortened season, projected to be a 50-win regular season. So we are 2 wins better than that team. (I'm not going into who's responsible for the Westbrook trade.) When Harden demanded to be traded, that's what put the rebuilding in motion. But Stone still had a superstar in his hand to bring back a ton of assets for the rebuilding. He inherited Harden. He did not "turn around" a team from 17 wins to 52 wins. That was my point. You may argue he did a reasonably good job using what he had to rebuild. But it's not like he had only peanuts to make a big feast.
