I wish JB was a better playmaker--but if he was there would be no chance of him being available, I assume. The more I've thought about it the more I feel like having him and KD on the same team using up around half of the possessions between the two of them would be extremely ugly. Opposing team just traps whichever of the two has the ball and forces a turnover.
Get rid of the cancer, aka Dickerson, hire a complete coach who can coach on both ends of the court, and stay the course. None of our core has reached their prime and Ime, while much better than Silas, is still not a good coach to get the most potential from this roster.
30 is not old in today's NBA. 30 is the new 27. 38 now thats old. JB will be good for another 6 or 7 years atleast.
If we're interested in Brown, then that tells us the direction that they want to go with the team. Hopefully we don't trade away picks for a win-now move, but we'll see.
I feel like some iteration of this with other inconsequential pieces is the only acceptable direction if we do trade for Brown. Either Alpi or Amen included in any way should make it a non starter. We don't need to double down on Durant.
I agree, I think KD’s burner account messed the chemistry up so bad that Ime and Stone will have to make a move. I’d could see KD, DFS, and maybe future protected 1st. For JB and 3 second round picks.
Ok this works on the trade machine: Boston: gets Giannis and Durant Milwaukee: Sengun, White, Pritchard Houston: Brown and Myles Turner What y’all think?
Interesting idea. I'd almost rather come away with White and Pritchard than Brown to be honest. Also leaves Boston very weak in the backcourt so they might not do it for that reason?
This just reeks of Ime who has no patience and will overcompensate for his lack of coaching by trying to pile up on “stars” even if they’re not a 1A or old or injury prone. Jaylen who still can’t dribble with his left hand and who’s not a true main guy will command a contract worth 70 million a year. So let’s continue to get older and trade away young players and assets for a short window even though the last 4 teams playing for a championship are all young. Those are the type of teams that will be competing from now on, not the Lebrons, the Currys, the Kawhis, the Giannis etc. They are all sitting at home for a reason.
It would be funny if out of pure pettiness the Celtics say to the Rockets, "We'll trade Brown to you if you fire Udoka for what he did here. You can even keep one of your first round picks."
"Star-hunting" is the only move left if you're keeping the GM and coaching staff. I don't think the Rockets have any interest in using their remaining picks from the Harden trade to draft a player. I'm very negative on Stone but I think he could redeem himself if he pulls off a trade for Jaylen Brown while managing to keep the better half of the young core (Amen + Sengun). Imagine a starting lineup of FVV/Brown/Durant/Amen/Sengun.
the Rockets have to do something all this “sit on our hands and let this mediocre ass young core develop” as teams pass us by in the West isn’t gonna cut it
Trading for a constantly injured 30 year old who has only shoot 34% from 3 over the past 4 seasons and has a below average TS% is exactly the kind of move 65 IQ Ime Udoka and his 65 IQ fans would love. I'd be highly skeptical.
