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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]

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3 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Green shitting all over himself this half.

The fucking refs swallowed their whistles. He is taking the ball to the rack and getting fouled like crazy. 

1 minute ago, Macklemore said:

The fucking refs swallowed their whistles. He is taking the ball to the rack and getting fouled like crazy. 

There’s a lot of contact without a whistle. That’s for sure 

1 minute ago, Macklemore said:

The fucking refs swallowed their whistles. He is taking the ball to the rack and getting fouled like crazy. 

He’s also falling tripping all over himself and turning the ball over on top of taking horrible shots.

7 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Green shitting all over himself this half.

 

1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

He’s also falling tripping all over himself and turning the ball over on top of taking horrible shots.

So fucking tiresome 

What a shit ass possession. Choked that one 

2 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

 

So fucking tiresome 

Yet right. Green shit all over himself in the 2nd half. He’s the worst starter on the team, he does nothing when he isn’t making shots. Fucking Luke Kennard out played him tonight.

Felt like Jalen and Fred both bet on the grizzlies. Just terrible last 5 minutes from both of them.

Too many layups and easy shots for them the last 4 mins of the game 

 

I didn’t see, what’s the deal with Sengun?

Just now, Rip76 said:

I didn’t see, what’s the deal with Sengun?

Made All Star team...said fuck you I'm not playing

 

Or a strained calf 

8 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

So… we need a PG. FVV can’t be counted on for jack shit. 

We need a better more consistent bench. Tate, Whitmore, and Landale can be improved.

was the floor slick or something, rockets fell and the lost the ball too many times that second half 

Green was awful in the second half. Dribbling out entire shot clocks with zero passing and eventual turnover. 
 

In the third, watch the body language of the rest of the squad as Green plays ball stopper. 
 

Looked like year one Green at times. Guess the Grizzly trash talk got in his head. That and all of the attention Amen has gotten the past 15 games where many are suggesting he is already Houston’s best player and has superstar potential. 
 

Green relegated to a streaky two guard. 

Edited by ChickenSandwich

With no Alpi it really shows how we become way more limited on offense as well.  Can't do the pick and roll him an Fred have pretty much mastered, along with Alpi's passing out of it etc.  I love what Adams has provided, especially when it comes to rebounding, but Alpi is obviously much more dynamic when it comes to offense.  

11 minutes ago, Scraps said:

With no Alpi it really shows how we become way more limited on offense as well.  Can't do the pick and roll him an Fred have pretty much mastered, along with Alpi's passing out of it etc.  I love what Adams has provided, especially when it comes to rebounding, but Alpi is obviously much more dynamic when it comes to offense.  

This is the reason I didn't go crazy about the 1 pt loss. Best player was out.

If he's going to be out for a while, they have to learn to get points without him, but that was a game to care less about. A win would have been good. The loss was whatever.

14 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

So… we need a PG. FVV can’t be counted on for jack shit. 

Heard on radio this morning that Rockets, Ime, and FVV had mutual interest in changing the $44m team option for next season into 3 years, ~$100m. 

14 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

So… we need a PG. FVV can’t be counted on for jack shit. 

For some reason Ime had Green running point more than Fred even when on the floor together. 

Edited by ChickenSandwich

49 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Heard on radio this morning that Rockets, Ime, and FVV had mutual interest in changing the $44m team option for next season into 3 years, ~$100m. 

Yeesh, that seems like way too much for him. He got 2 years and about 84m so far, which is probably an overpay of 34m for his talent. I thought they would have a bit more goodwill saved up to get to a better deal than that for the future. 

It also makes me want them to go get another point guard with all those expiring contracts and get some leverage on the situation. 

 

Yeah, so he gets an extra year for $16M, seems like a decent deal for both parties if they are happy. Reduces his figure from $44M to $33M, unless I don't understand the extension correctly, which happens all the time. The NBA salary cap was invented to give accountants that got tired of tax season a full year of work.

Paying an NBA player under 45M/yr nowadays seems like a good deal lol

FVV's stats and efficiency have declined a bit this year and he will be 31 in the offseason, so I'm not to keen on that number unless it's a 1+1 with a team option.  I don't think other teams will offer him more than 25m a year on a deal of 2-3 years.  De'aaron fox is making 34 and 37 million this year and next, and people are worried about that being too much.  FVV is nowhere near the offense generator he is and is much older. I like him, but I don't like him for that price, as they are now graduating the guys like Green and Sengun to much more expensive deals. 

ESPN guys on West teams "intel"
 

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Bontemps: It remains to be seen when Houston will push its chips in for a star. What has been seen over the past month is that Amen Thompson truly has the chance to be one.

Just look at these numbers across January, when Thompson, the fourth pick in last year's draft, has been in the starting lineup after Jabari Smith Jr.'s shoulder injury: 18.5 points, 10.9 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.2 blocks per game, while shooting 56.7% from the floor.

And his final minute in Boston Monday -- including a tremendous move to shake Jaylen Brown and sink the winning bucket with less than a second to go -- showed why sources have told me Houston believes he has as much upside as any of its young stars.

Windhorst: Rockets GM Rafael Stone has a case for Executive of the Year as picked by his peers, though Presti is likely the favorite to win the honor for the first time. Stone's draft picks, namely Thompson, are the central reason, but Stone's decision to hire Ime Udoka as coach in 2023 looks like it might've been a franchise-changing choice. Aligning a roster with a coach is one of the hardest things to do in the league, especially in short order, but the Rockets have no doubt made it happen. This team exudes Udoka's personality, especially at the defensive end.

Bontemps: The Rockets have also consistently taken the position, sources said, that they are going to see this season through before any significant tinkering. That is partially because the franchise wants to first see what its young core -- Thompson, Smith, Jalen Green, Alperen Sengun, Tari Eason, Reed Sheppard and others -- can accomplish in the crucible of the playoffs.

Both Green and Sengun signed rookie extensions in the fall that don't kick in until July. Does that mean one, or either, would be included in deals? No. But it would give Houston maximum flexibility to remake the roster as it chooses. Already well ahead of the most optimistic expectations for this season, the Rockets have every incentive to be patient.

https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/43627075/nba-trade-intel-how-three-west-leaders-prepping-deadline

Going to the game tonight...First game in about 4 years.

Pretty pumped to see Amen in person..

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No Alpi again...meh.

Shouldn't matter...we should beat this shitty ass team by 10+

We.gonna lose to these chumps unless we pull our heads out of our asses

5 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Green playing like shit. 

Plenty of blame to go around. 

Edited by TonyTexas

Yeah every single Rocket is playing like shit except Adams

Dude put in Reed for Holiday at this point.

Starting green over Adams in the 2nd half was dumb as fuck.

Team and Ime all went full retard tonight

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