yeah but no way we actually trade him in season. Ime will never support taking a strategic step back while he’s competing.
Seriously…. Are you still stuck on the PG play and not seeing the bigger picture? Do you think the thesis of Reed, Amen, and Sengun is that they top out as a shooter, defender, and scorer respectively? How are we supposed to actually see if they can take the playmaking leap if we have both FVV and a true backup point guard? The mistake you and others continually make is thinking we’ve stopped trying to develop the young core. DFS and Capela only bite us in the ass if both FVV are out for the season and the young core does not make the playmaking jump. There’s a big difference between FVV missing 20 games verse missing 88 games (regular season plus postseason)
A lot of posters can’t follow cause and effect…. No wonder a lot have gotten Stone Derangement Syndrome.
"These soft-ass players only lost because they couldn't hold the Lakers under 78, this is nothing like the game in San Antonio that I got a front row seat for night after night."
It's why they didn't let Reed start from the beginning of the season. It's why FVV was on all of these podcasts talking like a hothead. Reed makes FVV obsolete. He should've been traded last year. Ime needs him to be the governor of his last in pace overrebounding style.
I don't get your logic. If the plan was having FVV play starting PG and develop Reed at the same time, why would getting a good backcourt replacement block Reed's development? It is actually very simple. Whatever plan they had with a healthy FVV crumbled. So why did they sit on their hands and do nothing?
The narcissist does not scare me.....he is just not a great coach as people thought of him a great prospect...one trick pony I am afraid.
There is no "Stone Derangement Syndrome ". He's an awful gm who should have been fired the moment the buzzer sounded. Why defend him? You're a Rockets fan and he's awful. Take a shot at an upcoming college coach too to replace Ime.
I'm dying at people still calling the Young Core the Young Core. At some point yesterday's Young Core becomes a regular "meh" team and that's what these guys looked like. The Young Core - who are entering their 3-6th season at this point, were propped up by a 37 year old who took them out of lotto/play in range (just like FVV and Dillon did the year before) and into the 50+ win category. They were cooked without him as we just saw. The Spurs have a young core with Castle, Wemby & Harper. The Hornets had a young core with Miller, Kon, LaMelo. Pistons with Cade & Duren The Rockets instead have a collection of younger role players and dubious all star Sengun who doesn't fit with 2 of them, and glaring seemingly unfixable weaknesses. I mean if your core players can't create offense at all it seems to me you don't really have a core! Or at least the core of a good team
I definitely would not put us in the top three or four as far as the best young group of players in the league but I think we are in the top five or six. as far as somebody like castle, who knows how much better he will get? Maybe he will be the greatest NBA player of all time, but I tend to think he is closer to his ceiling than somebody like Reed. I completely understand what some folks are saying, but even Smith continues to improve. there have definitely been of. Some of these are our fault and some A. Some of these are our fault and some of them aren’t. if you want to discuss the franchise player element, you could go back as the Harding trade in the fact that we could’ve had Maxey. I just try to avoid applying that much hindsight. It’s fair game to go back at this point and criticize the last year or even look at stone in the roster building sense but we are where we are. it could be in a much but I think there are teams that have been rebuilding and haven’t even been able to do what we have done. faith is it an all-time low for me with the organization and the coaching, but I still think it’s a nice young group of players.
So getting more playmakers to fill the roster spots over DFS and Capela would allow Reed, Amen, and Senun more opportunity to playmake? LMAO.... you still can't follow cause and effect plus are ignorant about the cap.
Maybe.... but you actually have to play the season out to see what they can do. What were they propped up with last season?
Completely agree. Udoka is very good at somethings - running the offense isn’t one of them. The problem is that Udoka is saying no new coaches or changes to offense.
The 37 year old guy who was 4th in the league in total points scored on ridiculous 52-41-88 shooting splits? I don't think we need another 2-6 years of data to figure out the Sengun experience kinda sucks or that Reeds too small or that Amen can't shoot or that Tari & Jabari are what they are. We get it by now!
