Christian Wood looks unhappy

[brutalitops]

Imagine being the Rockets best player and in your prime and your locked into making half of what players on your level are making, being frozen out of plays on an almost historicly bad team

[dans1230]

20 game losing streaks are unprecedented and its hard for everyone to keep their composure when dealing with that. This was a winnable game for them so i understand the frustration thats leaking from the players. I wouldnt mind these frustrations being leaked from the coach a bit. The main problem for the Rockets right now is that they have zero leadership, from the front office to the coaches to the players. Imagine if a top pick got drafted into this mess next year?

[pr0wler]

Lots of panic sellers for the Rockets. This year is a write off, they're building for the future. Just because it's a **** show now, that doesn't mean it will be that in the future.

[jbk1234]

John Wall wants out if Houston very badly and is trying to pad his stat line so someone will trade for him. The Rockets were probably willing to oblige him for the same reasons but it's not sustainable. I suspect he's coming off the bench before the end of the year.

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You know I really was scratching my head wondering why the wizards were willing to give up a 1st to get off of Wall's deal and thinking was it that bad? The good part for the Wizards is that the pick pro. is as follows: top 14 pro. in 23, top 12 pro. in 24, top 10 pro. in 25 and top 8 pro. in 26. If it doesn't convey it becomes 2 2nds in 26+27.

Apparently Ernie Grunfeld gave Wall that contract extension 2 years before the 5 year max he signed in 2013 was set to exp. when he played 78 games and averaged 23.7pts/10.7asts/4rbs/2stls a game that year. Then he plays only 73 games the next 2 years and missed all of last year. Boy did that move backfire on them. And it didn't help that there was apparent friction between Wall and Beal. I'll forever scratch my head at how Leonsis allowed Grunfeld to stay at the helm and let Otto Porter Jr. go for cap relief when other teams were willing to offer better packages centred around matching salary+prospects+picks. To me, Wall's deal ended up being Gilbert Arenas 2.0 minus Gil going loco and bringing guns into the building.

The only team I could've seen who would've been willing to eat Wall's deal would've been OKC but Presti understandingly would've demanded the Rockets remove protections on all outgoing swaps+picks to eat Wall's deal as they had the contracts+matching salary to make it work. Obviously you wouldn't do that if you were the Rockets.

They are really screwed as they are praying that John Wall deludes himself into thinking he's better than he actually is and opts out of 47M to test FA(dumb move to do so but anything's possible).

Increasingly, guys are opting in and then offering to take a buyout.

[old skool]

Houston were so close to winning a title with Harden, CP3 and D’Antoni in 2018. They were a hair from beating the all powerful GS team and then their window basically shut even though they tried the next year. Has any team ever fallen as hard as fast?

Cleveland when lebron left for Miami.

Jordan won 203 games and three championships in his last three seasons in Chicago. The following three years they won a total of 45 games. Dynasty to Dumpster.

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[JediMasterRevan]

What is the cost to get wood?

[MagicBagley18]

Dude lost 20 straight games he should be unhappy- if he wasn’t I’d be more concerned

[johanliebert]

Just saw the the play he’s whining about. Wall made the right play and had a point blank layup but dort had an amazing close out to block it. I thought he took a contested jumper the way this board has reacted.


Wood wasn’t going to get a better shot off. Wood is a 25 year old journey man calling out vets I can see why he’s bounced around.

[The_Hater]

Just saw the the play he’s whining about. Wall made the right play and had a point blank layup but dort had an amazing close out to block it. I thought he took a contested jumper the way this board has reacted.


Wood wasn’t going to get a better shot off. Wood is a 25 year old journey man calling out vets I can see why he’s bounced around.

This journeyman is averaging an efficient 22/10 and is currently a much, much better player than John Wall. That’s not even up for debate.

Plus I’m not exactly sure what John Wall had done this season to be above criticism? He seems to still think he’s the pre-injury John Wall to the detriment of his team. Dipo and Wall have been chucking up tons of shots this season at a very inefficient clip. That’s not winning basketball.

[Golden Knight]

Just saw the the play he’s whining about. Wall made the right play and had a point blank layup but dort had an amazing close out to block it. I thought he took a contested jumper the way this board has reacted.


Wood wasn’t going to get a better shot off. Wood is a 25 year old journey man calling out vets I can see why he’s bounced around.

I thought Wood was talking about the final play?

Final play was Wall taking a contested 3 pointer.

[gmoney411]

20 game losing streaks are unprecedented and its hard for everyone to keep their composure when dealing with that. This was a winnable game for them so i understand the frustration thats leaking from the players. I wouldnt mind these frustrations being leaked from the coach a bit. The main problem for the Rockets right now is that they have zero leadership, from the front office to the coaches to the players. Imagine if a top pick got drafted into this mess next year?

I'd imagine things would be very different for the rookie. The Rockets started off the year with 2 unhappy superstars, an unhappy role player/leader, and a new coach. Then they brought in Wall and Cousins who haven't exactly been great leaders themselves. Then they added Oladipo who has no interest in staying. Silas stood no chance this year. The environment the rookie would come into would be very different.

[Goose egg]

I owe Harden an apology, Houston is such a dumpster fire that I don’t blame him for demanding out

[HMFFL]

Christian Woods is one of the only pieces Houston needs to keep. There is no reason to believe he's going to become available unless he request a trade and I don't believe that's likely.

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[Openheimer]

I owe Harden an apology, Houston is such a dumpster fire that I don’t blame him for demanding out

Were just not good enough was prophetic words