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Windhorst: Rockets still looking at Giannis

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Rvo384, Jun 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM.

  1. htownrox1

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    What a lineup… I’m shaking in my boots.
     
  2. daywalker02

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    Lol KPJ is not starting, they will get another one.

    Maybe the Rockets can spare Aaron Holiday in good faith.;)

    Gabe Vincent for Bobby Portis....

     
  3. Hemingway

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    Agree. We’ve had a great off-season. I think we are championship calibre if Reed makes a giant leap or we make a trade at the deadline to upgrade our backcourt depth. The ramifications for both the Bucks and the Pacers is pretty huge. Indy is now on the market for a center and the Bucks for a Pg. Lots more to come in this crazy off-season.
     
  4. Le$$

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    Defensively they do look better with Turner. How much better are they than pistons is probably the question.
    Pistons are on the rise, so i see them actually taking a step back.
     
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    All your JRs belong to us! Are you going as well @J.R. ??? I hope not
     
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  6. daywalker02

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    The East is wide open with Boston a Play In team.

     
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  7. Fulgore

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    A team with Porter jr as it’s starting pg lol.
     
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  8. daywalker02

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    When is J.R. upgrading to an S.R.

     
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    Wake me up when they get rid of Kuzma's empty stats and KPJ wannabee PG. The only reason that team has a chance to advance is because they are in the Eastern conference where Boston and Indiana had their season's destroyed by an achilles heal. Only Atlanta got better, but even then, who knows if they will actually accomplish something this year, they keep being an underwhelming team despite having talent.

    Gary Harris corpse is not scaring me.
     
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  10. Rocket River

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    Giannis Giveth
    Giannis Taketh

    Rocket River
     
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  11. A_3PO

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    Knicks, Cavs, Pistons and probably the Hawks will all be better than the Bucks.

    The Bucks are basically Giannis + rubber bands and string. A cat running in a cat wheel.
     
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    Giannis is the defacto PG now. You can't have KPJ starting and be serious. I think this team will be like the first Eric Gordon/Ryan Anderson year of the Rockets.


    Giannis
    Gary Trent Jr.
    Kyle Kuzma
    Bobby Portis JR
    Myles Turner
     
  13. ElPigto

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    Just doing his PR ****. Did the same **** when Jrue left:

    https://fadeawayworld.net/giannis-antetokounmpo-emotional-jrue-holiday-trade

    And also pretended like he had nothing to do with JKidd getting canned.

    https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ucks-wished-jason-kidd-conversation-only-them

    For PR reasons is best to play the innocent victim and have this message about loyalty.
     
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  14. Rocket River

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    This!

    Rocket River
     
  15. TheRealist137

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    Plot twist. The Bucks signed Turner because they think he would be a good fit next to Sengun
     
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  16. Le$$

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    Giannis recruited him lol

    He aint going nowhere.
     
  17. CarlosGM

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    My understanding is that, accordong to Jackson Gatlin, we are hard capped at the 1st appron after using the non taxpayer MLE and Capela in SnT, and without Nate Williams we are about 1M$ from the 1st appron. Jabari I think has a poison pill. It’s very hard now to match Giannis salary, while sending the same amount of money, and having at least the minimum 13 players in the payroll
     
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    Turner definitely changes the calculus.... If (and it's a big if) the 76ers can get a healthy season out of Maxey, Embiid, and PG they are ahead of the Bucks too.

    Here is where I would roughly slate them currently with gaps where I feel like it would be tough to move up or down out of

    1. Cleveland
    2. New York

    3. Orlando
    4. Atlanta

    5. Detroit
    6. Philadelphia

    7. Milwaukee
    8. Boston

    9. Indiana

    10. Miami
    11. Toronto

    Guaranteed Lottery:
    Washington, Brooklyn, Charlotte, Chicago
     
  19. cheke64

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    Should we take a look at Damian?
     

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