How Cam Johnson TRADE Addresses Rockets BIG Weakness | Where Does Houston RANK In Giannis PURSUIT?

How Cam Johnson TRADE Addresses Rockets BIG Weakness | Where Does Houston RANK In Giannis PURSUIT?

on today’s show why Cam Johnson could be the type of minor upgrade that the Houston Rockets look at to preserve continuity while still addressing a key weakness and where does Houston rank in their Giannis pursuit it’s all coming up right here at Locked on Rockets this is mission control Houston ignition sequence start 6 5 4 3 2 1 zero what’s up and welcome to another edition of Locked on Rockets your daily podcast home for everything Houston Rockets basketball as always I’m your host Jackson Gatlin native Houstononian and credentialed media member i’m also the host of Locked on NBA Thursdays be sure to follow along wherever you listen to your podcast or on YouTube just search Locked on Rockets where the best way you can help us grow our show is to listen every single day on a podcast platform of your choosing and then like comment subscribe on YouTube now today’s episode is brought to you by Monarch Money take control of your finances with Monarch Money use code locked on NBA at monarchMoney.com for 50% off your first year and as always thanks so much for making Lockdown Rockets part of your day every single day whether it’s on your way to work on your lunch break in the gym thank you so much for being an everydayer on today’s show we’re going to get into where the Houston Rockets rank in their pursuit of Giannis and Titakmpo given the fact that everybody apparently in the NBA has called about Giannis all 30 teams so we’re going to talk about that a little bit later on uh and then we’re going to focus these first couple segments on Cam Johnson as a potential minor upgrade for the Houston Rockets target that they should be taking a heavy look at and that there’s been some rumored kind of you know reporting speculation about the Nets’s desire to a move on move Cam Johnson and then b uh their desire to get back into the lottery using any number of their late first round picks to be able to get back into the lottery area of this year’s NBA draft they have the number eight overall selection um in this year’s draft but then they also have the number 19 pick in this year’s draft and then they also have the 25th and 27th sorry I apologize 26th and 27th picks in this year’s draft so um a lot of pathways for the Nets to be able to combine some of those assets and get back up into this year’s lottery so let’s start with why Cam Johnson why would he make sense for the Houston Rockets well first and foremost Cam addresses a very specific need for the Rockets in their distinct lack of shooting on the roster this is a Rockets team that did not shoot the ball very well this past season uh they really did struggle even though they had you know a couple guys come on later in the season this is a team that does not shoot the basketball well shooting is a distinct weakness on this team flat out just scoring is a weakness on this Rockets team and if they are dedicated to the idea that Rafel Stone discussed during his exit press conference about being a team oriented team about needing different guys to be able to step up and score the basketball and not relying on one person to do all the heavy lifting if that is the goal and the direction of this organization then they need players who are well-rounded who are well-rounded offensive threats who can score from a variety of areas on the floor who aren’t onedimensional offensive pieces and that’s where Cam Johnson could step in as a significant impact piece for this Rockets team because Cam Johnson isn’t just a you know prototypical like 3 and D wing cam Johnson is a scorer he can put the ball on the floor he can get to the mid-range he’s got a silky smooth jumper he can pull up he can drive and get all the way to the rim he can score at all three levels really effectively um just this past season Cam Johnson averaged just under 19 points a game 18.8 points per contest uh and did it on 13 shot attempts per game that’s kind of the crazy number so he did about 19 points per game on only 13 shot attempts per game managed to shoot 39% from downtown on 7.2 three-point attempts per game had an effective field goal percentage of 58.2% very very solid across the board as just a flatout scoring option and he’s not a slouch defensively either he’s not your you know he’s not ever going to be a guy that you want as your ace defender he’s not going to be the guy that you want to park on the opposing team’s best player but he would absolutely fit into this Rockets team identity uh a defense first team identity uh I I don’t have any reservations about his ability to you know adapt to this Emodoka le system with the priority being on defense he played fantastic when he was in Phoenix on the defensive end of the floor uh before they packaged him and male Bridges off to the Brooklyn Nets for Kevin Durant and when you look at this Rockets team you think about where they have areas that they could ultimately improve the roster if if the goal is to bank on continuity right if if continuity is the direction this team ultimately wants to go I think a lot of people and myself included take continuity to mean yes you know no major changes what have you but I think the taking it one step further is the idea that they’re not ready to give up on any of the young core and a lot of Rocket fans are in that boat right and I and I fully understand even though I’ve been the one firing up random trades and doing all this stuff with with Jaylen or Shingun or whoever like I fully understand the the hope and the optimism that give it one more year right give them another chance run it back don’t touch any of the young guys let them let them have one more year to see if it’s legit where a lot of my concerns from and a lot of my desire to make a move right now stems from the opportunistic approach of of looking at salaries and when certain you know certain guys contract extensions kick in and how to capitalize on things right now as opposed to a year from now if things get even worse right if if Jaylen has another bad playoff series then is anybody even going to want him on his current deal like all these different factors to consider but right now on today’s show I’m going to operate under the assumption right team doesn’t make any moves they don’t want to make any moves and they want to keep all the young pieces in place if that’s the case you know running this exact team back next season you’d probably still experience a similar level of success but you’d also still have the glaring weaknesses that were present on this team this past year right you’d still have a lot of offensive question marks you’d still have a team that was largely needed to be propped up by offensive rebounding and second and third chance opportunities instead of a team that could just you know I don’t know be a good offensive team because they just don’t necessarily have all the weapons to be a good offensive team and so from that perspective trying to look at this roster trying to look at the spots that could be upgraded without removing one of the young core pieces and the two very easily identif easy easy to identify areas of upgrade would be the point guard position with Fred Van Vleet or the small forward position with Dylan Brooks and that’s why we’re focused on a Cam Johnson hypothetical here and what it would look like and it would involve trading one Dylan Brooks we’re going to talk about what the deal would ultimately look like here in just one moment first today’s episode is brought to you by Door Dash nba fans you know what time it is the NBA finals are here and that means big performances and even bigger rewards door Dash is bringing the heat with a slam dunk deal for Dash Pass members during the 2025 NBA playoffs it’s called They Swoosh You Score anytime a player drops 50 or more points in a playoff game Dash Pass members score a free threepiece crispy tenders combo from Wingstop the very next day just place an order of $20 or more use the code Wingstop 50 at 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painful to have to look at this situation and think okay well what’s the only way to upgrade to the roster and to add more shooting well you got to subtract the guy who was already the team’s best shooter but I think that’s a good place to actually start this discussion you know and I’ll get to what a trade would ultimately look like but in comparing the differences between Dylan Brooks and Cam Johnson I think that Dylan Brooks has the reputation as a significantly better defender than Cam Johnson but I think when you when you go with the eye test right and how Dylan has looked you know really since the end of last season and even throughout significant stretches of this year I’m not going to go so far as to say like that Dylan Brooks has lost a step defensively but Dylan is not not quite the ace defensive presence that he’s made out to be or that his that his reputation is on the basketball floor and that’s that’s readily apparent when you watch him and when you watch like the juxtaposition of like how Amen Thompson guards opposing star players and how effective he is against them versus when Dylan Brooks gets switched onto a star player and you’re like “Oh okay well Dylan may maybe about to get cooked.” Um and that’s a little bit problematic right if you’re supposed to be an ace defensive wing like there shouldn’t be a moment where like you’re worried about Dylan Brooks in a specific matchup but unfortunately that happens a lot he has a tendency to be a little o you know overaggressive at times fouling at inopportune moments uh the three-point shooting fouls that happened like you know in the playoffs were kind of brutal to to talk about um and ultimately he doesn’t quite have the lateral quickness and the speed to stick with some of the smaller players these days and so he does get burnt a lot on drives by smaller faster players uh his you know strength is guarding the bigger stronger guys and using his strength using his physicality to his advantage but I would go so far as to argue that by level of importance Dylan Brook’s offensive contributions have been more important to the success of this Rockets team than his defensive contributions and I’d go so far as to say that that’s been the case for a while now right even this past season right Dylan Brooks we saw first off you know his numbers from this past season were super impressive right he shot just a hair under 40% from three 39.7% from downtown on 6.3 attempts per game um averaged 14 points per contest on just under 12 shot attempts per game he really developed and got got really comfortable with that turnaround midi as kind of a counter when he would drive in you know drive the ball in get into the teeth of the defense and be able to hit that turnaround or post up on smaller players and hit that turnaround uh you know as kind of a a mismatch opportunity within the Rockets offense but you know Dylan is not a a super effective offensive player like just by comparison comparing Dylan Brooks to uh Cam Johnson Dylan Brooks had an effective field goal percentage of 53.3% versus Cam Johnson’s effective field goal percentage of 58.2% that’s damn near a 5% jump across those two guys and again Cam Johnson averaged almost 19 points per game on only one shot attempt more per contest than Dylan Brooks and this isn’t as simple as just a a copy paste and you put Cam Johnson on the Rockets and he’s gonna be able to act give you 19 a game on fantastic efficiency you know he wouldn’t you know but but if you were to give Cam Johnson Dylan Brooks’s shot diet on the Houston Rockets I think he could do a lot with that right i think you would see similar levels of production to what he’s giving or what he gave the Brooklyn Nets this past season and I think it would give the Rockets another offensive weapon that is a little bit more versatile than the limited bag that Dylan Brooks has because Dylan Brooks is not a guy that you want to you know give the ball to and say go to work even though that’s what the Rockets offense kind of dictated at times because they just didn’t have anything else because they had kind of a poor offensive system poor offensive structure or at times other guys just couldn’t get anything going so Dylan Brooks would just go Dylan Brooks takeover and sometimes it worked and it looked really awesome and other times it it hurt right because that’s not really your best offensive approach to give Dylan Brooks the ball and let him let him go to town cam Johnson’s a different animal offensively i think he’s a much more fluid offensive player again a truly three-level scorer uh much more efficient offensive option and I I really don’t think there’s that much of a gap in how impactful they both are defensively at this stage in their respective careers uh Cam Johnson is only is about a month younger than Dylan Brooks and they’re on very similar contract deals you know two more years roughly around you know just over $20 million each season and so in just kind of comparing and contrasting their differences I do want to highlight here right and we’ve talked about this a lot in regards to like guys like Fred Van Vleet or even Stephen Adams you know the intangibles part of this and the culture part of it and Dylan Brooks you know the Rockets have often referred to him as the head of the snake defensively i think that’s more of a tone and mentality thing than it is the actual oncourt production as far as how impactful Dylan is as a defender and that’s one of the things that’s really hard to weigh here is is Dylan Brooks a guy that you know if you if you were to just cleanly swap Dylan Brooks for Cam Johnson how much better would this Rockets team get i don’t think they nec I don’t think they get worse and I I firmly believe that i think they do get better but how much better do they get and is that marginal increase is that marginal improvement worth a the potential asset cost to get Cam Johnson we’ll get into get into the deal here in a second and then B is it worth the disruption of removing Dylan Brooks a guy who’s been one of those vocal locker room leaders who’s helped set the tone and the identity for this team under Emodoka in his two years being here um is it worth that right so there are a lot of factors to consider here but when you’re looking at a Rockets team that is in definite need of some kind of improvements and that’s that’s where I I maintain that it would be a a a catastrophic mistake to just run this identical team back one more season because all the vets will be a year older right fred Dylan Adams they’re all they’ll all be a year older and yes all the young guys will have a year more of experience but it’s not a guarantee that suddenly all these young guys start playing out of their minds or guys have you know a year three leap or a year four leap or a year five leap or what have you um and that’s the major concern is that you have a chance to you might plateau you might even regress a little bit if the Rockets potentially overachieved with their 52 wins this past season and so adding a scoring option like a Cam Johnson who’s a little bit more of a versatile scorer offensively might be the type of minor upgrade that helps you know the Rockets take one or two steps forward without it having to be this massive big swing for a star player like a Giannis or a Kevin Durant or a Devin Booker or something like that so that being said what would the deal look like uh there was speculation from Nets Daily the other day on social media that the that the Nets are uh looking at getting back into the lottery using some combination of their other first round picks that they have again 19 26 and 27 uh they’ve also made it you know apparent that guys like Nick Claxton and Cam Johnson are available in trade talks so enter the trade proposition here if you’re the Houston Rockets pick number 10 and Dylan Brooks for Cam Johnson and pick number 19 so effectively you are swapping Cam and Dylan and for whatever you know level of improvement you deem that worthy um and then you are you know the asset cost to be able to do that is effectively moving down from pick 10 all the way back down to pick number 19 you slide down nine slots the Nets get a first round lottery selection um and yeah so that would be that would be more or less kind of the the go-to option now the the downside is here you know and I already know other other people are going to say well what could the Rockets could the Rockets go get Cam Johnson without giving up Dylan Brooks and it’s it’s basically impossible like that’s the downside to how the Rockets are currently structured how their contracts ultimately look they don’t have a ton of like miscellaneous tradable salary you know they’ve got the Jock Landale deal sitting about $8 million they’ve got Aaron Holidayiday sitting about $5 million team option that they could pick up other guys are free agents right jeff Green’s a free agent jun Tate’s a free agent adams is a free agent um they just don’t have enough aggregatable salary to be able to get up to Cam Johnson’s uh 20 a little over $20 million salary um and be able to keep Dylan Brooks right and even if you did do that then you know what does the minutes even look like at that point because then you’d have Dylan and Cam and to Jabari and Tari and uh you still have the other Cam Cam Whitmore waiting in the wings trying to break into the rotation a little bit um so that’s the proposal right and I’ve seen that that trade that specific trade circulating around social media and other Rockets fans discussing it and it it’s been a bit of a split divide on whether or not that trade makes sense for the Rockets is it worth is Cam Johnson you know is is an upgrade to Cam Johnson worth sliding back nine slots in the lottery um I think I would do it as sad as I would see as sad as I would be to see Dylan Brooks go because he’s very much ingratiated himself as like a fan favorite member of the Houston Rockets um putting the the R logo you know in his braids during the playoffs all that stuff like um I just think that there’s certain limitations that he has offensively i think that it’s really hard to look at his shooting numbers from this past season and not think of them as an outlier because career-wise Dylan Brooks has been a 35.5% three-point shooter um this last season was easily his best shooting season as a pro from the three-point line meanwhile Cam Johnson is a career 39% three-point shooter so the faith in Cam Johnson and his ability to stay at that 39 40% mark from three is a lot higher in my eyes than it is for Dylan Brooks to replicate the offensive success that he had this past year if Dylan Brooks comes back down to earth next season and he’s only shooting 35 36 37% from three then suddenly the Rockets offense just took a massive hit because their best three-point shooter just got a lot worse and we’ve seen that happen before we’ve seen players have an outlier shooting season and unfortunately you got to take the entire body of work and think that Dylan Brooks is probably closer to who he’s been his entire career as opposed to the guy that he was just last season even his first season as a rocket he shot 36% from three which was a little bit below league average those are the numbers that I’m more inclined to believe than his spectacular shooting performance from this past campaign so if that’s the case if that’s the argument that I’ve laid at your feet Dylan Brooks and the number 10 pick for Cam Johnson and the number 19 pick would you do that trade do you think that trade improves the Rockets do you think that’s too much to give up asset cost for a guy like Cam Johnson let me know your thoughts in the YouTube comments coming up where do the Houston Rockets rank in their Giannis pursuit with all 30 teams inquiring about the Greek Freak we’re going to get there in just one moment first today’s episode is brought to you by Monarch 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at Locked on Rockets your daily podcast home for everything Houston Rockets basketball all right so there was some reporting from Mark Stein the other day that basically said that all 30 teams have inquired about Giannis and Sedakmpo and it makes sense right top three player in his prime you know Milwaukee is in an unstable situation it makes sense that there’s a gigantic market for this star star player this is almost like what should have happened with a potential Luca Dodis trade if Nico Harrison wasn’t a basketball terrorist but lo and behold that’s what the Dallas Mavericks get and then the Lakers get gift wrapped Luca Donic i digress so it feels like there’s going to be a pretty substantial bidding war for Giannis this summer and when you look at the lay of the land in the NBA and the other potential star players or other marquee talents that are going to be available this summer there’s not going to be a single move made until the decision is cemented and guaranteed that Giannis is either a not being dealt or b is dealt to somewhere other than just like that the Giannis domino is the first domino that has to fall right there will not be a KD trade before a Yiannis tree there will not be a Booker trade there will not be a Jaylen Brown trade there will not be any other trade made until all 29 other teams other than the Bucks right are sure that they are out of the Giannis sweep stakes so with that being said where do the Rockets potentially rank in their pursuit of Giannis and Tedmpo and we we’ve talked about this a little bit with some of the other teams that were rumored to have heavy interest in Giannis or some of the teams that were uh betting favorites to be able to land Giannis in this blockbuster deal potentially this summer and the two teams that still jump out at the forefront of being firmly in the mix for Giannis are the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs both from a age and timeline perspective from a competitive perspective from uh you know what the assets would look like going back to Milwaukee all these different factors now there are you know other teams with some reported interest right the Knicks who seem to throw their hat into the ring for every star player and the Knicks I’m just going to go ahead and like lay that to rest the Knicks cannot put up a more competitive offer than either San Antonio or Houston is not going to happen now if Giannis says “I only want to play in New York,” that changes the calculus of things a little bit um similar to if the Brooklyn Nets decide to jump into the deal right the Nets have a lot of future draft capital um they have their own future draft capital they have some draft capital from from some other teams so the Nets could be maybe some players in this trade but the Nets also don’t have the abundance of young talent to be able to send back to Milwaukee for a Giannis right they don’t have really like a a true like blue chip cornerstone prospect or player to send back as the uh you know cornerstone of a Giannis deal the other team that is I think sneakily the team that has potentially the best offer for Giannis is the OKC Thunder right and this is the this is where I think there’s a little bit of you know a house of cards kind of at play here in this potential Giannis pursuit is that if big if and side note I I picked the Pacers to win the finals so we’ll see what happens i said Pacers in seven i also called Pacers winning game one so when that happened I was like “Yeah.” Um but if the Thunder lose in the finals to the Indiana Pacers there is not a doubt in my mind that Sam Prey is immediately going to be on the phone with Milwaukee figuring out what a deal looks like to get Giannis paired up with SGA in Oklahoma City because SGA is a current MVP and playing out of his mind giannis is a two-time MVP and a top three player in the NBA right now and if you were able to pair two of the three best players in the NBA right now in the middle of their primes this OKC team was already a juggernaut buzzsaw just carving teams up left and right this season and they’ve been the overwhelming favorite in every series that they’ve played in and maybe losing to the Pacers would be this would be an overreaction by Sam Prey and the OKC front office to then run out there and say “Yep we’re going to go get Giannis we we need a little bit more.” But I also wouldn’t put it past him to do that especially if all it took was one of JDub or Cadet Homegrren and then the mountain treasure trove of draft assets that OKC is sitting on because Sam Prey hoards first round picks like a dragon hoarding gold it seems like a bit of a no-brainer for OKC to be able to swoop in claim Giannis and then have a big three of SGA Giannis and one of JDub or Chat Homegrren left over chat makes a ton of sense from a ma you know a a schematic perspective he he’s the perfect compliment to Giannis um on both sides of the floor but JDub is also their other ball handler right and he’s the other perimeter threat maybe you want to maintain that i digress my point here still stands that I I think that of all 29 teams in the association the only team that can put up a better more concrete offer than the Houston Rockets can if the Rockets really wanted to go chips to the center of the table right if if getting Giannis was their absolute beall endall goal and they didn’t care what the cost was now I’m not I’m not saying put in you know Shingun and Amin Thompson or something crazy like that i’m just saying like a realistic trade package from the Rockets i think the only team that can beat out the Rockets realistic trade package is the OKC Thunder because if you can put up one of JDub who is an all-star or Chad Hungren who isn’t an all-star yet but very much has all-star caliber potential and is a defensive nightmare if you put up one of those two guys plus salary filler plus maybe one or two other young prospects they have Nicola Topic who hasn’t even uh Topic Topic i I really don’t remember how to say his last name who hasn’t even suited up for a single game yet as a member of the Thunder um they’ve still got all the future draft capital significantly more future draft capital than the Rockets have access to um if the Thunder wanted to get into a bidding war I think they could outbid any other team in the association for Giannis and then past that I don’t think anybody else has a better offer than Houston even San Antonio to that degree even when when we’ve compared in the past what San Antonio’s best offer would be versus Houston’s best offer it still certainly feels like Houston’s best offer is the better offer on the table as far as getting a clear-cut cornerstone prospect back in a guy like Alpore and Shingun because again we talked about it’s not going to be a Min Thompson maybe there’s a like 0.001% chance that they would trade him in instead of Shingun for Giannis but I highly doubt it but if the deal from the Rockets was Shingun and then one of Jabari Utari and then Cam Whitmore plus draft picks for Giannis versus the Spurs offer of Steph Castle the number two overall pick Kell Johnson Jeremy Sohan and draft picks like I think the Rockets deal beats out that deal by a pretty wide margin maybe not a wide margin and I think I think maybe eye of the beholder but I do think the Rockets deal is more competitive than that Spurs deal um on the surface but OKC’s deal blows either one out of the water simply from a picks package perspective from the upside talent perspective of the young a young prospect going back i think that JDub would be the best player going back to Milwaukee potentially potentially even better at least right now maybe even better than Alpin Shingun from Milwaukey’s perspective of what they want to get out of a player um or a player that they could you know maybe build some stuff around what have you that’s that’s interchangeable you can argue JDub versus Shingun um I think I’d put Chat one tier below those guys i think I’d put Steph Castle another tier below those guys um the number two overall pick another tier below those guys the number 10 pick that the Rockets have that they’re working with there’s a lot to look at there but that to me is the most interesting dynamic is if the Thunder fail in the finals if now Thunder title then they don’t care they’ll ride off into the sunset and they’re going to stick with their big three and they’ve already proven they’re like “Hey okay we won a title with these guys we still got all we’re still the youngest team in the NBA we’re only going to get better.” That’s a team that gets to bank on continuity that’s a team that doesn’t have to break anything up in fact I’d go so far as to wager that the Thunder could absolutely lose in the finals and you still bank on continuity and that’s a better bet than the Rockets banking on continuity with their current constructed roster all that being said I think it very much goes OKC1 Houston 2 San Antonio 3 and then probably a pretty substantial gulf between those top three teams in pursuit of Giannis um because I don’t think any other teams out there have again the collection of young talent future draft capital and desiraability as far as competitiveness or location or coaching or any of those other kind of ancillary factors in a potential Giannis pursuit um so we’ll see how it plays out but that report was very interesting that all 30 teams have inquired about Giannis every single one could you imagine if you’re Milwaukee getting a call about Giannis from like the Charlotte Hornets and you just we’d like to give you LaMelo Ball click that’s not happening all right on that note I’m very curious your thoughts where do you think the Houston Rockets rank in their potential Giannis pursuit what trade where do you think their trade package you know ranks is it is it the second best behind OKC is it still better than OKC’s offer is it is it not as good as San Antonio’s offer i want your thoughts in the YouTube comments also give me your thoughts on the potential acquisition of Cam Johnson would love to hear your thoughts about potentially upgrading from Dylan Brooks to Cam uh all that good stuff but as always thanks so much for checking out the show remember the best way to help us grow the show is to listen every single day on a podcast platform of your choosing and then like comment subscribe on YouTube but as always thank you so much for watching thank you so much for listening and we look forward to having you back right here at Locked On Rockets your daily podcast home for everything Houston Rockets basketball

How Cam Johnson TRADE Addresses Rockets BIG Weakness | Where Does Houston RANK In Giannis PURSUIT?

Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) breaks down a possible trade sending Dillon Brooks to Brooklyn for sharpshooter Cam Johnson, analyzing offensive upgrades and defensive tradeoffs. The discussion shifts to the Rockets chances in the Giannis Antetokounmpo sweepstakes, comparing their trade package to other suitors like the Spurs and Thunder, evaluating how Houston’s young core of Sengun, Smith, and Whitmore stack up against competitors offers.

Will the Rockets make a splash for Giannis or opt for smaller upgrades? Tune in for expert analysis on Houston’s pivotal offseason moves and their impact on the team’s competitiveness.

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