Post-Mortem: 2021-22 Houston Rockets

[CobraCommander]

Crazy they didn’t play wall at all...wall not getting hurt so you could move him turned into, “I’m not paying 47 mil to a mystery 30+ year old point guard that was recently hurt with injury issues and a bad jump shot” The rockets put no good film out there for the league to get wall off the books.

KPJ is a problem for the rockets cause what do you do, cut him? Who needs a inefficient shoot first young volatile point guard? Uh no one...his talent high...the cost too high for winning teams...maybe Detroit...but even Washington wouldn’t take him.


I’m high on green with the right time to develop- the kid too smart and talented to fail...

[LarsV8]

Not much to discuss really. They have done what they should be doing, absolute worst record in the league for two years, one more to come.

Look to move Gordon and Wood for assets, maybe to move up in the draft.

No changes with Wall.

The only unknown is where the pick lands.

One more year of tanking, and where that pick lands.

And then where to spend their 60 million in capspace as they begin their ascent from the basement.

[K_chile22]

Yeah, flip eg and Wood for what you can get, draft another piece.

I'm not near as out on KPJ as a basketball player as many are here. He's just absolutely not a point guard. It's making his game way worse than it would be if he were playing mostly off the ball. He's a good passing SG, not someone you want dictating offense. Issue is there's not really any good PGs the next two drafts besides Scoot and Ivey if you think he's a PG (I doubt it) so not sure what to do there short term. I do want him moved to a bench role though.

Sengun should get the keys over Wood, whose effort has made him hurt the team more than help. I'd look to move Tate as well if the price is right because the fit is so clunky on this rebuilding team and I Like KJ Martin's role player upside.

I don't think Silas is a great coach but he's been dealt a terrible hand so I could go either way with him. Not thrilled with Stone, hits and misses but I doubt he's going anywhere.

Next year may be their last year to get a top pick with the picks owed to OKC so would probably be best to tank it out another year. Think Green has shown he's going to be a high level scorer in this league so you feel good there, Sengun might be really good. Like the flashes from Christopher as a bench guard and hopefully next year won't be derailed by injuries for Garuba like this one was

[cupcakesnake]

I put the Rockets on my shortlist of teams to watch this year, but I admit I gave up on that pretty quick. Jalen Green was no fun early in the season, Sengun wasn't getting minutes, no Usman Garuba sightings? C'MON GIMME THE GARUBA. I watched a lot of the ugly early season, the inspiring winning streak, but about 40 games into the season, I told myself that's enough Rockets for this season.

There was a bit of a "letting the inmates run the asylum" feel to the KPJ/Green backcourt. Putting 2 very low-iq players doing all the decision-making. Going in on development was cool, but they paired that with weird decisions like: big minutes for Daniel Theis!

I was disappointed they didn't find a trade partner for Eric Gordon. He had a mini-bounce back year and I don't expect his value to ever be high again.

It's too early to see what Houston is going to be. I like the idea of pairing Chet (or Jabari) with Sengun in the frontcourt. Green is also going to need that low-usage, good shooting star so hopefully they get a top 3 pick.

The Rockets need a fairly quick turnaround. OKC has their 2024, 2025 swap and 2026 picks (top 4 protected). So they kinda wanna be pushing for the playoffs then, or staying the worst team in the league, to avoid losing something very valuable. They're also hoping for Brooklyn to completely fall apart.