Post Mortem #22 - Houston Rockets

[Mamba81p]

Good riddance.

Welcome to cancun Houston. Lakers waiting for you.

Build around Amen as soon as possible.

you ain't going nowhere with knockoff jokic and that dude who paints his nails.

Dude, you made a thread last week saying Amen is Jared freakin Vanderbilt. Hypocrite much??

Or i admit i was wrong and he's a great talent!

That as well!

If you switch from Vanderbilt to building a team around someone after just 3-4 games then you are doing something very wrong in your "analysis"

[Tracymcgoaty]

Dude, you made a thread last week saying Amen is Jared freakin Vanderbilt. Hypocrite much??

Or i admit i was wrong and he's a great talent!

That as well!

If you switch from Vanderbilt to building a team around someone after just 3-4 games then you are doing something very wrong in your "analysis"

His offense reminded me of vanderbilt. Where he was a liability on offense. But his handle and overall agressiveness compared to Vando is on a different level along with his athleticism. '

He still needs a team filled with shooters because his offense is lacking. Needs a jumpshot to unlock his game.

[Frankie]

Read on Twitter

Draymond saying all these nice things about Sengun and the Rockets post series feels a bit like when Guardiola does it after he's beaten a team 5-0 It comes across slightly patronizing. I'm not certain he'd be saying all these things if he lost game 7. But I appreciate it nonetheless.

But anyway, one thing he did say that I think was a fantastic point was 'you're only on the up until you're not'. That struck a cord with me because he faced the Kings in a game 7 a few years ago and they were meant to be an up and coming team, first time in the playoffs and all that, and 2-3 years later they feel like a directionless treadmill team unless they make some difficult decisions. Grizzlies too, were a super young up and coming team once. Now they've paid/about to pay all their guys but it feels like they've regressed from 2022, obviously injuries have been a big part of their story.

I've been happy with pretty much every decision the FO have made the last 5 years and it's gotten us from basement dwellers with 17 wins to the 2 seed and a 7 game series with the veteran Warriors. I trust them to keep making all the right decisions.

[RoyceDa59]

Great future for the team.

Pick up the option on FVV, his leadership and on ball defense are critical. It’s expensive but immediately becomes an expiring.

Trade Green + for Giannis, Booker or KD.

Let the youngsters grow.

Replace the other Green for an upgraded Vet shooter.

Contend for a title next season.

[Kobe187]

They took GS (Curry, Butler, Draymond etc.) to game 7, a first year team against a veteran star laden squad gunning for a Championship. Houston was impressive, good young team on the rise.

[RollingWave]

They did great, but now starts the hard part.

I think they're obviously much better positioned then the Kings a couple years ago, but weirder things have happened.

At least their current rhetoric is that they'll probably try to lean towards favoring continuity unless being blown away, which even if just from a leverage POV is obviously a smarter position you should take, though I also think that they're pretty earnest in that being their default position.

Obviously there's a lot of talk of trade Jalen Green for a bag of balls or something, I'd probably warn strongly against doing something like that, but clearly they need to figure out a real identity on half court offense. They need of their kids to really take a step to being a clear super star, Sengun is getting close, but not there yet, Amen looks very promising, but obviously still have huge holes.

So far Raphael Stone and Pat Fertitta have leaned towards trusting the guys they drafted / acquired early, sometimes to a fault (KPJ extension) though they've also been quite aware of long term cap management and haven't done drastic overpay extensions, so far they've been pretty darn smart, and nailed alot of picks, but now will really show what they're really about