I know winning like on Sunday makes stuff seem better in the moment, but *only* getting Gentleman's Swept as opposed to swept by a horrendous Lakers team that wouldn't have made the play-in with the roster rolled out - even with Durant hurt for most of the time, is still a Defcon 1 moment for the current team construction, especially given the standard that OKC and SAS are setting. The Rockets are not even in the second tier of contenders, have not been there I tend to agree with Pina here - unless there's a historic 0-3 comeback and a credible showing against OKC, running this version of the team back would be indefensible.
Injury bug hits everyone look at the Wolves and they dont even have that old of players. Aging players bro Adams and FVV are in their early 30s. KD is the only ancient guy and he just played 70+ games. Adams is just a year older than Jokic welp Jokic is aging now better throw him away amirite.
Agree with some of what you are saying but the "poor outside shooter" is the one I think people are too hung up on. There are only a handful of starting caliber centers in the league who are good shooters. I see "Amen and Sengun can't play together" over and over but if the Rockets have to have Wemby, Jokic, Mobley, KAT, or Naz Reid at center to effectively utilize Amen I'm not sure where that leaves us. If anything, Sengun's ability to initiate offense and pass to Amen in the dunker spot probably makes him a better fit with Amen than most centers. Sengun's lack of rim protection makes him harder to build a roster around, though less of an issue with the roster as it exists. The only real issue with the current roster is having Reed playing without a true rim protector limits his effectiveness. If he could really gamble more with a true rim protector backing him up it could unleash him a lot more defensively. But Reed hasn't shown anywhere close to enough consistency to seriously consider trading a 23 yo 2x all star based on fit issues with him. Of course it also limits future moves. My main point was "Sengun is a really good but flawed player who is tricky to build around" is a lot different than "Sengun is a really good but flawed player who is tricky to build around and also can't score against playoff defenses", at least when talking about shipping him and FRPs out for 34 year old often injured Kawhi.
Because Sengun is a PF, that’s why he was so happy when we got Adams and they were doing the double big lineups because it put him back to his natural position before he came into the NBA.
Sengun as a PF might be even more of a roster construction problem than him as a center. Power forwards who can't shoot threes are that much harder to fit into a roster than centers, and his lateral agility is far too questionable to stick with modern NBA forwards. Things might have been different 20 years ago, but in today's game I think he's in the closest thing to the right position for him. He needs an elite defensive player who can hit threes at the power forward position beside him to work as the #2 on a contender IMO.
Yeah personally, I think the "injury riddled, broken aged vets" thing is a little overblown. VanVleet never had real serious injury history. Adams had 1 major injury before Rockets. It was bad but still 1. Young Tari Eason isn't dependably healthy. Young Jalen Green was automatic 80 games. Then missed half the season. Steph Curry, Durant, chunky fat suited former iron man James Harden had major injuries after 30. How come their injuries are "recoverable", but everyone else is "death blow"? Is it somehow having "star power" serves as a magic elixir of better healing properties? But "role players" don't have that healing lol? Yes younger players have less milage, can heal quicker. But I don't think a "Specifically non All Star player" after 30 turns into dust on injury (Except for DFS)
Whatever negativity comes our way, I'll embrace it, but yeah this is very dramatic. There's definitely something wrong with our core in the sense that: - only 1 is actually a good enough outside shooter - only 1 or 2 arguably can create for themselves - only 1 is a good passer - only 1 can keep his dribble alive In other words, we have heavily flawed players at our core. If anything is rotten it's our GM quitting, our coach missing some brain cells and being a petty b**** and our "star" is a 37-year old man child with a fragile ego who's intent on taking "All Fire" personally by trying to burn us down to the ground through some fake online accounts.
The addition of Giannis would be great if we can cut into the core rotation as much. If we maneuver a Sengun and Eason sign and trade plus some picks then why not?
Sengun is a center in a power forwards body who cant defend and cant shoot. Basically positional suicide.
Hopefully that works out for whatever team gives him that opportunity because that ship has probably sailed here.
Sorry they couldn't get the lottery luck the mavs or spurs did lol. It's just lottery luck and not being able to develop players honestly. You got shocked on draft night for Paolo and had to take Jabari while you saw Paolo and Chet go ahead of him. You lucked out in the Wemby draft by getting Amen and in the Jalen Green draft to get Sengun but other that that, the nets pick conveyed in a weak draft and Reed in his first year was averaging 4 pts a game, relegated to the G league, and you saw the guy drafted behind you win the ROY(although stat padding along the way.) The biggest blunders were taking Jalen Green over Mobley or Barnes and not getting Grimes and wasting picks on Christopher and Garuba. The offensive system also just sucks
We acquired him for 3 srp. If he wasnt hurt he would cost more. The other poster was calling him old and aging. If he is old and aging then so is Jokic cuz Adams literally a year older than Jokic.
