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

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1 hour ago, ChickenSandwich said:

If the miracle happens and the Rockets get the number one pick…..

Trade it for a superstar?

Draft Flagg, then who from the current roster is traded?
 

 

 

the nba track record on over hyped white duke players is very very sketchy 

a top 4 pick would be amazing and highly trade-able 

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    also kept the 2027 and 2029 phoenix first round picks.

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STEVE KERR: "The league has changed quite a bit this year with the physicality. One way I'm seeing it manifest itself on tape is that everyone's just allowed to grab and hold Steph. Even when he's making a back cut I'm seeing people grab his arm."

4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

the nba track record on over hyped white duke players is very very sketchy 

a top 4 pick would be amazing and highly trade-able 

I mean, the sample size for top 5 picks is, what, Danny Ferry and Christian Laettner (who was a several time all star) >30 years ago?  I'd suggest Redick, Grayson Allen, and even Luke Kennard outplayed their draft position over the course of their career.  

The Suns will listen to Durant trade offers, but Ishbia is a full regard. I’d offer them FVV for to match salaries and give them their picks. Hang up the phone if they ask for more.  

Just now, billfromlaketravis said:

The Suns will listen to Durant trade offers, but Ishbia is a full regard. I’d offer them FVV for to match salaries and give them their picks. Hang up the phone if they ask for more.  

I think that's paying too much for KD. Booker, sure I would do that, but KD at this point is old, unreliable and a malcontent that can sour a locker room if he gets sad. He ain't worth the risk for the price the Suns want. 

16 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

FVV + their 2025 pick. Throw in some second rounders if they want

I'd go as far as to add Whitmore to that.  i would ideally try to build the package around brooks' contract but it's tough to get to KD's cap # without including FVV.  but no, phoenix does not get all of their picks back for 1 year of $54 million, 37 year old KD.

I think KD needs to get involved and pick a team. Ishbia, again a regard, is going to set the price so high that I doubt a trade gets done before the draft.

The guy has said on numerous occasions that he doesn’t believe in rebuilding, thinks tanking is dumb and fans that support their team tanking are losers. If he’s not already the worst owner in the NBA, he’s certainly in the discussion. 

The Houston Rockets are the favorites to land Kevin Durant, per @BovadaOfficial 

Houston Rockets +120
Golden State Warriors +325
San Antonio Spurs +325
Minnesota Timberwolves +700
New York Knicks +700
Miami Heat +700

Sure is gonna be hard to trade anyone when we win the fucking NBA Championship this year

14 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Disagree. 
 

Replace Brooks with KD and this team wins a title this season. 

Hasn't he been hurt since 3/30?

2 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Hasn't he been hurt since 3/30?

Rested and ready

 

Amen and Alpi controlling the paint, Durant playing the stretch 4

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The Adams made a pretty solid point on the drive hike today. The Suns aren’t the only that shit the bed, and the Rockets should engage with other teams. 
 

Who might be available? My top guys are Maxey and Haliburton. 

No thanks on Harden 2.0. 

I think Philly regardly runs it back with a high draft pick, so no Maxey.

Pacers probably win a playoff series, so I doubt they’d deal Haliburron, but they’re such a small market team, you never know. They might want to go full OKC. 

No thanks on Zion. Fat and never available. 

I’d take Booker for the 3 picks, and I’d listen if the Jazz offered Markkanen. 

Signs are pointing to Rockets vs GSW.

Homefield.

F GSW!

I’m hoping for a Graceland Miracle. The Grizz are completely dependent on Bane making plays. Put Amen on him full time, and we could win in 5. 
 

Interesting rotations for GSW. Butler almost never sits, but Curry and Green do the AD thing where they go sit for a half hour in real time. 
 

We’ll see if Butler can 40+ minutes a game in a long series.

On 4/14/2025 at 3:01 PM, tx 3 putt said:

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STEVE KERR: "The league has changed quite a bit this year with the physicality. One way I'm seeing it manifest itself on tape is that everyone's just allowed to grab and hold Steph. Even when he's making a back cut I'm seeing people grab his arm."

Yikes this guy saying that? Whole team fouls constantly and plays as dirty as possible both ends of the floor. 

9 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Grizz making it interesting. Lets go Ja

They took him out

Either way. We should be fine. Curry’s  thumb is wrapped up pretty good, and he’s doing the soccer foul thing anytime it gets touched. 
 

Stop Bane. Stop Memphis. 

Playoff Jimmy Butler + Curry + Draymond get the 7 seed. They might just be the most dangerous 7 seed ever? Really unfortunate luck for the team that earned the 2 seed in the West. I wonder who the sportsbooks will favor.

Playoff Jimmy Butler + Curry + Draymond get the 7 seed. They might just be the most dangerous 7 seed ever? Really unfortunate luck for the team that earned the 2 seed in the West. I wonder who the sportsbooks will favor.

This isn’t the same Warriors team. We have several guys (one special one) who we can throw at Steph over a 7-game series. Unless Hield and/or Podzieski just go crazy we’ll wear’em down eventually!
1 minute ago, Horns RD Standard said:


This isn’t the same Warriors team. We have several guys (one special one) who we can throw at Steph over a 7-game series. Unless Hield and/or Podzieski just go crazy we’ll wear’em down eventually!

Admittedly, I'm still scarred from the Harden era matchups against the Warriors. I hope you're right and we can exorcise some demons this series. 

Going through the Warriors > Lakers > Nuggets on the way to the Finals will be epic. 

I don’t agree with most of the typical NBA complaints, but I suspect that they would solve a lot of problems by firing everyone who agreed that it was logical to have teams only play ONE playoff game in the first ten days after the regular season ends.

I am gonna have to up my blood pressure meds to deal with 4+ games against these cocksuckers

Rage

10 minutes ago, Scraps said:

I am gonna have to up my blood pressure meds to deal with 4+ games against these cocksuckers

Rage

 

green is already crying about a foul no call 

10 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Playoff Jimmy Butler + Curry + Draymond get the 7 seed. They might just be the most dangerous 7 seed ever? Really unfortunate luck for the team that earned the 2 seed in the West. I wonder who the sportsbooks will favor.

https://www.oddsshark.com/nba/rockets-warriors-playoffs-preview-2025

Rockets +158, Warrios -188 series odds. Gulp.

I'm not confident. Feels like I've seen this playoff movie so many times. Young team on the rise gets dad dicked by the vets. We already have Kerr publicly whining for his team to get the star treatment from officials. I think I just heard Amen get whistled for his 2nd foul.

the last 30 games they've been 🔥🔥🔥

we'll end their season 

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green is already crying about a foul no call 
To be fair so is Sengun
3 hours ago, Scraps said:

I am gonna have to up my blood pressure meds to deal with 4+ games against these cocksuckers

Rage

Same. Already mentally preparing for the horseshit refs that will favor the Warriors' bullshit whining. Need our young guys getting their first taste of playoff basketball to keep their cool and stay focused on Sunday night. 

 

3 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

https://www.oddsshark.com/nba/rockets-warriors-playoffs-preview-2025

Rockets +158, Warrios -188 series odds. Gulp.

I'm not confident. Feels like I've seen this playoff movie so many times. Young team on the rise gets dad dicked by the vets. We already have Kerr publicly whining for his team to get the star treatment from officials. I think I just heard Amen get whistled for his 2nd foul.

It worked, Curry and Butler shot 31 FTs last night. The Grizzlies shot 23. 

Brooks or Draymond won't make it out of this series alive

I think the series outcome depends on the officiating. Call the games close, we lose. Call it fairly, it’s probably 50/50. Let  them play and we dominate. 

I seriously doubt they will let the Rockets defense treat Curry the way they did in the last meeting. I hope we get to see it, but I don't think it's going to happen. Curry and Jimmy will probably average 20+ free throws a game together, and the Rockets are going to have to find a way to overcome that. They can do it, but it's not gonna be a fair fight. 

The other thing I worry about in this series is how much the team is going to rely on Jalen Green. If he has one of his 5 game slumps again going like 3-14 and 8 points, we could be in for a rough ride. I hope he blossoms into an ice cold killer, but I doubt that happens. 

3 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

The other thing I worry about in this series is how much the team is going to rely on Jalen Green. If he has one of his 5 game slumps again going like 3-14 and 8 points, we could be in for a rough ride. I hope he blossoms into an ice cold killer, but I doubt that happens. 

This is likely when the team makes the decision to move on from him or not.

It’s going to be tough getting by the warriors. I guarantee the nba would rather have a Luka/lebron vs Steph/butler second round than a young Houston team. We need to pounce fast and take them out 

4 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Bunch of bleeding pussies….

Not me!

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This ain’t the same old warriors. They don’t go on those 13-2 15-4 back breaking runs like those GS teams of old. Think we’re gonna run them up n down the court. And in the half court get up in them and disrupt their flow. If Jimmy is having to go iso it means our defense is effecting things exactly as planned. Double bigs lineup should wreak some havoc on them as well.

Jimmy has zero confidence in his 3 point shot right now. Drop back and let him fire away. 
 

Steph is all about moving without the ball. Don’t lose him in the screen game.

Nobody off their bench worries me. That’s their offense right now.

There’s a reason they were in the play in.

 

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