Did Rockets Make a Huge Mistake? #Trade #Durant #NBA

Did Rockets Make a Huge Mistake? #Trade #Durant #NBA

the doctor numbers center [Music] [Applause] 3 2 1 go [Music] yo yo yo CSG’s CSGS we all we got how y’all doing how you feeling good to see you man if unless y’all been living under a rock the Houston Rockets have gotten Kevin Durant kevin Durant we back baby we back he comes in plug and play he fixed everything that we’ve been needing you know especially as far as a perimeter score goto guy hand him the ball put the ball in the bucket and we don’t have to change our play style to do so we don’t have to change our play style to do so now I know it’s been a while right and it’s been a minute since I did a live stream but I was doing other things right but I had to come in and get the chop shop opinions on it now did we make a mistake by trading away some of our youth for established veteran i would say no of course not now if you in the Twitter ring you know the Twitter atmosphere we got some people that really don’t like this trait and I’m like what are we doing right hold on real quick turn on my lights all right all right my screen was looking dark so I could see better what’s going on y’all yeah some people like how is this not a positive for us i think most people was under the mindset that we wasn’t going to be able to keep all our young players we wasn’t going to be able to fit everyone under the cap one of these young player out of nine first round draft picks I believe three or four of them already gone and Josh Christopher um Tatai Washington you know and the guy from overseas from Spain i can’t think of his name it’s been that long the center Garuba goruba we already got some rid of our first round draft picks you know this was coming this was coming and for us to get Kevin Durant at a I would say a fairly low price that we didn’t wager our whole future like we didn’t trade all our young core for him we got rid of Jaylen you know and but we who look who we replaced him with a lot of people is like “Well now y’all only got a two-year window a two-year window of a championship.” No we don’t we still got a gang of picks we still have s assets we still have cap space that since Fred Fran resigned and took a cut we can still add pieces to this puzzle that we building and let’s say we it don’t work kevin Durant don’t bring us home a championship we still got enough to retool right we still have enough to retool and we still in good shape i think we’re on par for the course i think we on par for the course we get better we get into the playoffs we get into the playoffs then we get an established veteran someone that wants to come here and if you seen the Fanatics clip KD definitely wants to be here it’s not like we traded for someone that don’t want to be here and then next year cuz he only got one year on his deal left and then he leave us high and dry and then we back into the market but he is the quintessential everything that Jaylen Green is not excellent jump shooter excellent dribble uh jump shooter off the dribble first in both of those categories still can give us 26 points a night what What were we doing you know like what who are we complaining we still kept most of our young guys now truthfully I thought that we was probably gonna have to give up Jabari and I wouldn’t have been happy about that but now we got a Jabari hopefully he if Jabari end up being half of the player that Durant is he can you know he can fill those shoes one thing he can learn from Durant is how to shoot at a high at the highest point the highest elevation of the shot at the apex of his shot they pretty much the same size jabari would benefit from being around Kevin Durant and we we we we we are on our way if we had just imagine what some people say what Dylan Brooks if you watch the games and if you seen the games Dylan Brooks he was frustrating yeah he he he had one of the better shooting seasons I would say from three but his defense is was a bit overrated he did dumb head knuckle stuff like dumb knucklehead stuff you know and I think we’re gonna probably miss that tone setter you know something to say but we still got Tari he can set the tone hey man he’s going to be a set uh set the tone you know and I appreciate what Dylan Brooks get did came in helped uh reset the culture help us get our mindset right on how to play hard no defense and I think he did what he had to do but at the price tag that we was paying him was it really that valuable but now we got KD he can you know he he’s not he’s just not going to sit in a chair right and defend at a very high level but he’s not a slouch he’s not a slouch on defense so if you out there and you having any reservations about the Rockets and what they did I think it was addition by subtraction but then on top of that you get a a world star like really a all world player in Kevin Durant and didn’t have to lose much of your core rockets fans what are we doing what’s the complaint like seriously what is the complaints about that Jaylen Green might become a star and I like Jaylen Green for what he for what he did i I liked him i I like that he was athletic but he was just too inconsistent then we got consistency we got three-point shooting mid-range shooting at the highest level in Kevin Durant how can you be upset literally how can you be upset with this now we’re going to look at our starting lineup coming up so far because we did resign Fred Van Vleet at a cheaper value from 44 to 25 million a year that’s a win stone that’s what I’m talking about stone if you’ve been a subscriber for this channel long enough I made videos about Stone i’ve criticized Stone for almost every move that he made because a lot of the moves that he was making at the deadline or before it was more like lateral moves this is the year this was the off season to see what Stone was all about and he showed up he got deals done he got a good trades you know so Stone I would give it up to you this is what we needed this what we needed let’s look at our starting lineup going into the next year now things might change but this is what projected to be fan Vleet Aman Thompson KD Jabari Shangon you got three shooters a maniac running around that does pretty much everything off ball then you got your cornerstone center how can we be mad that’s a great mesh of of of a players each one of them don’t do what the other do so they’re not redundant in any way the floor spacing isn’t going to kill us because we was just so poor in shooting that you could just pack the paint now defense have to decide are we going to double KD on the perimeter or we going to double Shangon in the post and I say either way you picking your poison either way you picking your poison then we got Tar Easing off the [ __ ] Shephard Adams and Whitmore now Shephard and Whitmore this time they need to step up we need your shooting Shephard we need you running off screens while you on the court we need your passing we need you to do the you know pick and roll skip passes to the corner cam Whitmore we’re going to need your athleticism we’re going to need your hustle we’re going to need you to have the right attitude we’re going to need you to have the right attitude first cuz you seen Hey if Jaylen Green can go you can go too if Jaylen Green can go you can go too so you need need to make you need to have one shot Eminem eight mile soundtrack in your headphones the whole off season while you in the gym putting up shots because this is your one shot we tried to lean on you last year and you didn’t quite cut it and so Mayo Duckles set you on the bench this is your chance whitmore reed Shepard i think he got a little bit more leech than Whitmore he got a little bit more leash than Whitmore higher draft pick his skill set is sorely needed on this team shooter but if he don’t step up and we can go get a guy like maybe Derek White or man Derek White on this squad we chip we we we gonna win the chip if Derek White if we can pull out i’m not sure that Stone is done because we still do have a couple of needs especially shooting so I’m not going to sit back and say Stone is done but if we go and roll out this lineup to begin the year I think we in good shape i think we’re in good shape now this is interesting i wouldn’t do this i wouldn’t do this but we’re gonna highlight Nick Wright nick Wright was actually right about this he was actually right about the trade see what Nick Wright got to say more importantly though I think I’ll pick them to win the West really h Nick Wright said he gonna he he will pick us to win the West okc gonna have something to say about that believe me they will have something to say about that hey but we got a hell of a chance i I think they have a great blend of what we’ve seen works right now in the NBA which is you talked about the defense bang high level coaching no doubt about it depth and a guy who can get you a guaranteed That’s something we didn’t have that’s something we didn’t have a guy that’s gonna get us a for sure 25 plus 25 plus which Kevin Rant still is like there is no there’s no question about it and the fact that they were able to get him and give up in my opinion very little wow it I think like look at their nine man next yeah so the fact that we got him at 25 26 points a game you can pretty much pencil that in he haven’t scored under 25 points a game since like his third season in the NBA highly efficient that’s what we lack an efficient wing player i mean efficient back guard he’s more like a wing but man Kevin Durant you can put him anywhere if you can pencil him in for 25 points a night what what we doing instead of having Jaylen explode for 40 or 38 then back door give us nine 10 points is it even a question is this even a question truthfully year so I this is my projected okay I sold y’all the starting lineup points per game on 372967 splits what is one good game yeah right he had the one he had 37 3729 on splits that was Jaylen Green and we move that to Kevin Durant 25 points you know 40 42% three-pointer 89% at the line come on man what What we talking about what we talking about what we talking about kevin Durant we got We can’t like if you don’t love this trade i don’t know what’s going on i don’t know what’s going on have you been watching and know seeing our needs that we need and Kevin Durant addresses all of them what’s up Antoine Brown you know so I’m not going to hold y’all too long but I know a lot of people is like well he’s not a really a mentally tough guy you know he’s not going to be able to lead us mentally that’s not what he’s here for we still got Fan Vleet that’s going to be the vocal leader and then hopefully Shangon to come up you know rise up since he is the allstar lone allstar he got a little cache hopefully he rises up for it and we’ll have a vocal leader in both kd is not here to be a vocal leader he’s here to put the ball in the basket right that’s what he’s here for we got other people to do that he’s here to lead by example show the guys what it what what they can do if they work hard if they can be able to sustain longevity in this league little things like that but he’s not here to be a vocal leader that’s not what Kevin Durant was in OKC that’s not what he was in u in Golden State it’s not what he was in Brooklyn it’s not what he was in Phoenix so don’t think he’s going to come here and be a vocal leader that’s not Kevin Durant’s game we heard him say a million times we I just want to hoot i just want to go out there and hoot now he’ll be go out there and do just that he’s going to be able to just go out there and hoot so our window we didn’t we didn’t goof we didn’t goof up we didn’t sacrifice our future we still got plenty of assets we still got plenty of young guys we just going for the goal while while these windows of opportunities do not be open for long how long do you want us to sit back and wait this is why we collect assets this is why we was tanking this is why we tank to get young guys to get uh draft picks so we can when the time come one of these elite players come become available we can trade them and we can bring them in this is why we do it and Stone have actually mastered this i’m not going to lie stone have actually put on a master class so far in this off seasonason he add us another piece we cooking he add us another combo type guard not to really just come in and and take over anyone’s duty or position but sixmanish like Lou Williams type guard or somebody like that come in give us a quick 15 16 points we cooking we cooking 6c Charlie man what it do 6c Charlie what’s going on good to see you good to see you so yeah I think we in in a great spot in a great great great great great spot and we didn’t sacrifice our future to do it this was always the plan i’m going remind you this was always the plan and some would say it was always the plan to get Kevin Durant as long as he was on Brooklyn we betted against Brooklyn we got all of their draft picks and we betted on that downfall ever since the big three we betted on that downfall then when he went to Phoenix what we do gave Brooklyn their picks back then got all of um Phoenix’s picks seemed like the plan all along was to get Kevin Durant that was the plan all along and it just so happened it happened now and we had the assets to outbid the next man now and now I hear a lot of people well now it’s championship or bus no it’s not it’s not championship or bus would it be great to win a championship of course we need another it’s been too long it’s been 30 years since we had a championship it’s about time we get a championship but it’s not championship or bus because we still got we didn’t put everything in the you know middle of the table for Kevin Durant we still got other moves and assets that we can do even when Kevin Durant leave so it’s not championship or bust but you know I’m not going to try to diminish the importance of us winning we can’t go backwards we go backwards then oh yeah then we messed up we can’t go backwards if we go forward if we reach the conference championship if we in the final four of the Western Conference or one of the last two that give us a legit chance to get into the championship I think we did all right then we can retool next season see what we who didn’t pan out make another you know little trade here or there or sign a free agent maybe get rid of Fred and get a more of a downhill scoring type guard then that then that that’s what we’ll have to do but our options are still open wide so we didn’t sacrifice our future for a 37 year old Kevin Durant let’s stop it especially Kevin Durant that’s still playing at an elite level he’s playing at an elite level bro let’s see real quick then I’mma bring people up check out his stats at 36 he’s still playing 37 uh 62 games right in the playoffs he averages uh 26 no no my bad this was uh this point per game 26 points on nine and a half he made nine and a half out of 18 uh shots 52% field goal percentage which is like number one besides like big men he made at least right at two and a half threes a game he attempted six that’s 43% from three 43% from three 83% in field goal i mean uh free throws with six rebounds a game we We wasn’t getting this We wasn’t going to get this out of Jaylen Green for at least another two to three years we wasn’t getting this out of Jaylen Green bro for another two to three years at least if that even if he end up reaching that the efficiency is off the chart 52% from the field 43% from three hey what what we doing here man what we doing no reason to to poo poo or be mad about what we did we did what was necessary we seen that these young guys took a leap second year number two in the West now it’s time to go for it strike while the iron is hot and that’s what the front office did and people say well you know he might end up getting hurt anyone can get up you have you seen the landscape of the league we didn’t had like eight players with just Achilles and they’re young guys so injuries is going to happen injuries if we would have went and got anyone he could have got injured anyone Anyone’s going to get hurt that’s part of the game you know what I’m saying anyone’s going to get hurt part of the game no matter who we got it’s a real possibility that they will get hurt so that shouldn’t stop you from getting an elite score like Kevin Durant injuries is going to happen but if you get a guy if you can get a chance get a guy like Kevin Durant you take it especially at the price we get we we got him for you take it the link is at the top of the chat anyone that want to come up the link is at the top of the chat you can hit the link you can come up on stage with me we can have a discussion i want to hear from my CSGs or new Kevin Durant fans that uh follow the Rockies now if you want to put your two cents in you always can come up this is what this is for it’s not here to just hear uh just to hear me talk i’m eager and I want to know your take your perspective your your you know gripes complaints you can come up it’s not an echo chamber if you disagree come up hit the link i’ll bring you up with me and we can have a discussion and we can get it off so this is a open invitation to the chop shop csgs man we back csgs we back and how’s it going hey Six Rings how you doing man good i’m more of a football fan okay this is the problem I have with Durant he’s old you know he’s a lot older and I feel like I just think he’s kind of overrated not as a bad player but I think Curry and the Raymond Green and that era really helped him he was never the best player on the team that was always Curry you know what I mean in OKC Brooklyn in Phoenix kevin Durant he was never he wasn’t the leader he was in Golden State he wasn’t the same player okay that’s And I don’t think I don’t think No no one would disagree about the Golden State you’re trying to win a title though sorry you’re trying to win a title of course or are you guys trying to get to the finals like Indiana did like what’s the goal we trying to win a title this is why we do it but let me let me make a comment about what you said about the other teams he played on golden State Warriors I’m pretty sure no one that wasn’t why he brought he was brought to Golden State either if you remember the year before they won 73 games but they lost in the playoffs right the LeBron to LeBron so what KD was there to was brought to do was to be the icing on the cake and that’s what he did he went on to win two championships and got two finals MVPs the icing on the cake right he’s not the icing on the cake though in Houston you know what I mean yes he is he’s the He’s He’s the icing on the cake cuz we could have stayed Pat and we could have went and No that wasn’t the right choice i think I mean it’s going to be tough like you guys have a one twoyear period with this Oh okay so we got one two-year period right to to write out win the championship hold on hold on yeah hold on hold on i agree we got one to two years with Kevin Durant to win the championship but we still have draft assets compensations we still have young players so when KD part we still set up right to still retool our roster to fit and see exactly what we need to go on now we didn’t we didn’t wager our whole We didn’t wager our whole You didn’t give up like if you guys gave up like five four three first I would have said you know not a good but one pick and a pretty good player you know you did give up a pretty good player he was I think he’s going to be better in Phoenix you know i think now he becomes the young but he doesn’t really fit their timeline who don’t what’s his name jaylen Green jaylen don’t fit their timeline yeah he doesn’t fit their time oh they about to rebuild jaylen been through a rebuild before he know how to rebuild but it’s I don’t think he’s they’re going to keep him it doesn’t make sense booker’s almost 30 31 yeah that’s their problems they traded for him and now this guy’s almost 21 I think yeah i mean that’s that’s their problem that’s not that’s not our problem no he’s not our problem no more six rings no he’s not you know what I’m saying so do you guys watch like the Texans or the Cowboys yeah I’m a Texans fan nice you have a good quarterback excellent quarterback i I think he’s good you know like he’s good very good the best quart You guys are going to win the division again yeah we should i don’t think Where you from where you from bro i’m from Toronto toronto okay right but ironically somehow my I watch the Patriots okay patriots i like them i like the Celtics you know I’m not really big into basketball but I mean I feel a lot of teams are trying to do what Toronto did like this is kind of like the Toronto move you know you bring in Kevin Durant you hope he’s good for a year and what happens happens in the second third year but a lot of teams going for it yeah it It’s only one team one team can only win the championship a year so it doesn’t work for for 29 other teams so only one team can do it the thing about basketball you got to give it your best foot forward to be able to It’s hard though because basketball it’s hard because it’s not the same game i don’t know how old you are but if you go watch basketball from 20 years ago the ratings were better you know people it wasn’t all about players you know sure you had Gordon and Hakee but it was more the Bulls the Rockets now it’s more like we won LeBron and Curry well you talking about from 30 years ago 30 years even T-Mac and Vince Carter 20 years ago but now it feels more like we don’t want to want we only want the Lakers and the Warriors we want LeBron Curry every year and if it was LeBron and Curry in the first round that would have drawn more views probably than the NBA Finals i ain’t worried about the views i’m worried about the Rockets winning the championship nice so you’re a sports fan you’re more like you don’t care about the views and nah it’s not what I get wrapped up in hey but Six Rings I appreciate you for coming up i got other guests I’m going to get to all right okay keep an eye on the Rockets though bro yeah hey but I appreciate you for coming up i got All right succeed Charlie you got sound like you got the um YouTube playing in the background all right succeed Charlie can you hear me now i can hear you okay i’m not gonna stay on too long i just wanted to say this now first of all God bless all of y’all i got to start off there the other thing that I got to say is how many years do we got to wait for Jaylen Green to show something five years is long enough all that old is potential that’s here today and gone tomorrow everybody seen the playoffs we seen what we seen we seen that this he wasn’t he had one good game out of seven one this was a trade that we needed to make and you know as far as people talking about Kevin Durant’s age they don’t say that about LeBron James do they and he’s 40 they don’t say any of that about what’s going on so to me space I’m glad to see you i was wondering if you were sick or something cuz I hadn’t seen you in a while and when Frank got his thing going we can’t talk but I’m glad to see you man god bless you and the family and I hope to see you again hey we gonna be more than six seed now man but you always succeed with me hey hey i’m gonna tell you man i We winning it man that’s the way I feel ain’t no more six seed okay okay we champs now huh Charlie yep love you man i love you man tell us uh Frank I said hello okay all right hopefully Frank will come through if he’s not busy he’ll probably come through all right man you take care man and you know like I said I hope to see you some more all right for sure for sure we going I’mma be I had Frank i don’t see you in the back oh dude oh there you go you’re on the bottom my bad there go Frank right there what’s good what’s good hey hey is Charlie still on yeah hey Charlie hey hey my bad i You can still talk on my podcast just ain’t nobody gonna talk back that’s the only kicker right there you could but you know I got to tell you I’ve been listening to you you made a whole lot of good points you uh whoosh when you were on there i like what you guys were talking about but I just got to say it again i’m not going to hold everybody else up i’m I’m sick of this oh his age you don’t say that about LeBron you don’t say that about Curry you don’t say that about the other ones Jimmy Butler and all the rest of them they all up in age we got what we wanted i’m glad we got it and I just got to say this to you man stone finally grew a pair cuz I was mad at him for years now I like him now nah he Yeah he’s been doing a hell of a job yeah and you know me Frank how I used to be on Stone me too yeah like I gotta give him I gotta give him his flowers when Flowers is due stone has he did amazing a job these last two seasons in particular that that took that’s that trade takes a lot of ego to the side because I my biggest worry for him was the the fact that Jaylen was the highest pick we’ve had he he made as a GM and um you know obviously they’ve invested so many reps and uh making him the face of the franchise uh for all those years and uh essentially trading him way um it’s in a sense saying that you kind of not that I don’t know if it’s you because to me people call Jaylen I don’t think he’s a bust because a bust is like you can’t play bro like um he’s just never lived up to expectations like if every Rockets fan is honest we thought he was supposed to be like aunt on that level I mean John Morant type you don’t draft a guy like that number two uh for him to just be a role player So um but yeah I think Stone he he uh that that that’s a that’s a big boy move and it might maybe he didn’t want to do it who knows you know maybe they saying Eay got the power but uh what regardless by hook or crook it was done and I think we’ll talk about it but I think it was the right move i think it was a it it I mean you it got to be the right move right because everything that Jaylen wasn’t Durant is you know what I’m saying everything that he wasn’t Durant is and then we didn’t have to attach another young player from our core to it right so I think it just the the the storm right just it just worked out perfectly in our favor at the right po right point right time it all worked out in our favor yep it did and you know the way I look at it is it’s not really uh like to me I just see it as KD they just they’re not if I look at it like if you gambling and you gonna put your money on something and they look at the situation because I don’t really think it’s just like Jaylen’s bad i think they just making a bet that in this window we got where we got to make some decisions and we have an opportunity to get Kevin Durant what are the chances that the production Kevin Durant gives us is better than what Jaylen Green’s going to give us and if you look at it okay I got a two-year window and the reason I’m saying two years because that’s when Jaylen’s contract would have ran out again and then you would have been back in the same situation uh so if Jaylen kept the status quo let’s say they ran it back would he have been the best player on the championship team or at least the player like not what we saw in the playoffs and I don’t know if if I’m a team with veterans with players on contract people trying to get paid people trying to keep their jobs what you seen in the playoffs I don’t know if you can trust that and I think what they saw in the playoffs probably told them like I don’t know if we could trust that and they just pulled the trigger and just gave themselves like you pointed out bro i think Daryl Moria said this basically your job as a GM isn’t to try to try try to win a championship not try to win it not like you said not every team could win a championship a good GM gives their team the opportunity to win a championship every year that’s what a good GM does because at some point you might just hit one you feel me so that that’s pretty much it facts facts um the true Dark Z what’s going on man yeah I can hear you how you feeling about the trade man if I’m being completely honest about the trade um I don’t really like it i’m not a fan of the trade what but hold on hold on hold on let me let me get Let me get I’m just playing with you i’m I’m playing with you bro go ahead i’m not a fan of the trade in the fact that we shipped off Jaylen for KD but I’m a fan of the I’ll be a fan of the trade if it gets us a title because I completely understand the idea of it and I understand the theory behind it kd kind of fits back into the Jaylen Green slot because I feel like the team was very well built around Jaylen Green’s development like y’all were saying I wholeheartedly believe that um Jaylen Green was going to take us as far as he we would go in the playoffs and we didn’t go as far as we could have because Jaylen Green he wasn’t there when we needed him but how I also feel is that I can’t trust KD’s health and I understand that going for the gamble because we only have him for a year i think he’s in his expiring contract right now uh he already he’s going to resign they they really Oh my god so he’s two years two years 50 some a year or something like that that’s that’s that’s that’s an interesting choice um but I don’t I don’t I just can’t get behind it fully man like if it brings us a title very good very well like that’s that’s a good thing but is that the only But that’s unfair expectations yeah cuz I’m not saying I’m not saying that’s that’s the expectations but I’m saying that there are a lot of concerns that come with this trade like the fact that Let me Hey let me ask you a question bro cuz we just had a space on Twitter about this and I’m going ask you the same question I asked the other dude so your your positive outcome for Katie on the team like if to justify it as a title what would have been the your just like a good outcome for the Jaylen part like if Jaylen stayed on the team what what would be in two years what uh at the end of two years what would you have had to seen from Jaylen Green to say this is not worth getting kd let me hear that then I’mma ask you another question go ahead okay so for me in you said two years yeah cuz that’s the window yeah in two years I feel like it’s championship for Jaylen as well for Jaylen as well i don’t think that Okay bingo bingo hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on which one do you think is a more likely outcome based on everything is it that Jaylen Green will lead the Rockets to a championship in two years or Kevin Durant lead the Rockets to a championship honestly answer it honestly no I honest I know I’m going to answer you honestly i’m not going to lie about nothing i think it’s KD i And that’s why I’m not I don’t hate the trade i think that there’s I got one more question bro i’m leave you i swear i swear so if if if the outcome for the Rockets is still the same and you you’re saying one of them with KD is is the more realistic outcome if Jaylen did not deliver that in two years what do you expect the Rockets to do at the end of that window when his contract is up i just feel that I’m not really sure because I don’t know the landscape of the NBA at that point i don’t know it don’t it don’t matter we’re not You’re judging it on his performance you’re not judging the land right are we saying that like he’s bad like he’s playing the same as he is right now let’s just say we we like a first second round exit i don’t know it could vary maybe he’s a little better um you know but something different cuz this is exactly you’re going to end up trading them anyway so basically we end up in the same spot to bring a championship i’m That’s why I’m That’s what I’m saying i’m not saying that we shouldn’t have done the Katie trade if we went back in time and the Katy trade was on the table I would take it but I’m not really that big of a fan of it in the first place because I feel that nothing has really changed besides we upgraded Jaylen Green’s position that’s a big No wait wait wait wait wait wait i’m saying that like this guy two or three years ago he tore his ACL or something going for a layup before a game started like he’s not like how many people how many people Okay how many young players this year have torn their Achilles that’s not that Wait wait wait just No no no just hear me out i know it’s a lot i know it’s a lot okay thank you so no matter with any player injuries is bound to happen if we could have went and got Jason Tatum right or or Donovan Mitchell or anyone it’s still the risk factor of them getting hurt it’s still a risk factor so injuries is just part of the game i mean that’s that’s that’s what we going to have to deal with every team deal with injuries i’m just saying that for both either if it’s Jaylen Green or KD the team still has the same problems like either way the team still has the same problems we don’t have What are those problems we don’t have good enough shooting katie does help katie doesn’t fix that katie helps he doesn’t fix it he can shoot that doesn’t mean So that’s a It helps the problem right okay it helps the problem but it’s still a big problem like we can’t like if Katie’s off the floor we’re still the probably one of the worst shooting teams okay but are we in a better position with KD as far as shooting yeah that’s what I’m That’s So then I don’t get what So you want us to stay in the same position or cuz my problem is here’s another thing there are better players than Jaylen Green and the young core on this team as we speak and I think people what you just said oh they just upgraded Jaylen Green to KD hey we didn’t lose a man Thompson we didn’t lose Alpin Shangon so you’re telling me you replace your your leading shot taker who is super inefficient with one of the most efficient shot makers in NBA history that is still in as far as shot making is still in his prime around your same the two of your better younger players on a team that are still on the ascension and even if and here’s another part people don’t talk about even if KD flames out at the end of the day whether it was JG or KD for the Rockets to be successful either Aman or Shangon one of them got to be a guy so at the end of to me it’s like they struck the nerve like they hit the they they they hit the the what’s the term space they struck while the iron was hot yeah they struck while the iron they they threaded the needle bro like you kept your young core together while upgrading one of the key positions that was detrimental to you in the playoffs because for for what you’re saying bro a lot of the shooting issues if a guy takes about 1/4 of your shots on a team and he’s not efficient and your center isn’t efficient if you upgrade the other guy to a super efficient player that is a big that’s not a small thing bro that’s like a big that’s a big upgrade i understand but what I’m what I’m trying to say isn’t that we shouldn’t have made the Katie trade like I feel like that’s what you’re saying like that’s what y’all think i’m like negative on the Katie trade i think it’s a good trade i think that it’s something that we should have done at this point in time i would not take it back if I had the choice what I’m saying is that I think this trade in the end will probably lead to the same result without it but worse because we’ll be hog tied to KD no we’re not no we’re not we’re not we’re not hog tied to him two years two years we didn’t give him a 5year contract million i don’t think he’s going to last those two years man i really don’t and even even so right and you and you and you for you having your reservations about it I have no gripe with it you know what I’m saying you that’s your opinion you can have your reservations about it but what we’re trying to show you is within those two years it gives us a better chance to win a championship and not only that and not only that it also gives us some cushion for the other ones like Aman and also Shangon to fill out and see which one of these young guys can be the main go-to guy on a championship squad so it only it not only give us a better chance to win now it also pushed our demand for number one right in for us being a championship back two years now it gave them another two years to grow and they don’t have to be forced into a position that they’re not ready for okay but my question is if something happens to Katie or after the two years are over and Katie is old even if he stays healthy who’s going to replace him that’s That’s the beauty part bro once he his contract is up you’re in free agency with possibly two AllNBA two AllNBA level young 24 year olds cuz cuz remember his money coming off the books right off the books so we still gotund and something million houston Emodoka all NBA Shangon all NBA all first team all defense i’m in Jabari Smith one of the best role players in the league the this is two years from now now these kids are gonna get bigger stronger faster chemistry like y’all y’all gotta I think we just got you gota and even though if even if a man and Shangun are just like one B players or B players you got a big spot for another player to just come and just hey Anthony Edwards you don’t like it in Minnesota no more welcome to Houston i don’t know that just feels that feels like kind of wishful thinking to me like I like I feel like that’s the wish god damn it huh that’s the wish bro y’all done seen Space N Space i’mma pop it bro y’all done seen Space Get on here damn damn near had to go to a psych war bro watching Kevin Porter Jr and Christian Wood pick and rolls we done s sat up here got our our ass beat night in night out for the tune of 60 losses in a season bro and at the end the summation of that is you having a all-star 20some year old a first team alldefense baby and you got Kevin Durant with financial flexibility no long-term commitments to anything and y’all still finding a reason that like I don’t get it bro i don’t get it man i’m sorry i’m not worried i’m not complaining i’m just worried like I feel like we changed besides like dark zone dark zone this is why we tanked now we seeing the fruits of it this is why we tank for to get assets get young guys get draft picks so when one of these guys come up we can get them this was the whole plan this is why I’m saying we’re on par for the course like most rebuilds go ask Philly Nam about their rebuilds go ask the Bucks before Giannis about their rebuilds go ask the Sacramento Kings bro we came back within four years right and now we got one of the prime players that’s coming and wants to join our team these rebuilds bro Chicago now they’ve been in purgatory right like we could have been in in purgatory bro like and we bounced back like we bounced back from Harden right in that Westbrook and and all of that and we back within four years this is a hell of a good quick turnaround that we doing right now and I don’t think people actually see it some rebuild rebuilds never get off the ground you know what I’m saying so I think we need to we need to be grateful for what we got right now you’re right um I’m honestly just a little worried that we’re going to ruin the rebuild we got good problems just put it like this we got problems but we got good problems to worry about that’s all i’m not disagreeing with y’all i’m just Okay i don’t know you’re fine thank you for sure for sure i think we just Bro we’ve been talking to people off the ledge for how long Frank we’ve been having to talk people off the ledge for five years bro yeah damn near five years through the pandemic through all of that stuff bro we didn’t went through like trying to paint where we are at this moment right now because the expectations going forward is for them to compete for a championship but I do find this space I’mma throw this out there is a lot of people using disingenuous championship or bus language to try to set up a way to not like the trade and say “Well they got to win the championship or Yeah it’s not championship or bus it’s not Can Can you explain Can I’m sorry i don’t want to but in uh I I agree i’m I’m okay with the trade salute salute Space salute Frank i’m okay i’m okay with the trade u Jaylen Green you know he’s gone i’m with I’m going to go with what what the offers want to do but at the same time when fans say that when some fans say that when you add an alltime great to your team you it’s I ain’t going to say it’s championship or bus but it’s in that realm in a sense and yes we have a backup plan just in case that doesn’t happen but saying that we shouldn’t be expecting to win at least one saying we shouldn’t be expecting to win at least one championship out of this that’s so kind of disingenuous as well because what are we doing this for right but that’s not what we saying to win yeah space explain the way you explained it on the on this on the Twitter spaces about the the the bus part yeah I mean it’s not championship or bus right it’s championship you can have that aspiration to be have a championship and that’s and that’s outright that’s good but it’s not championship or bus because if we bust that means we didn’t put everything into the middle like we still got cap space I mean we still got draft picks we still got young guys we didn’t trade all our young guys all our draft picks everything for Kevin Durant now it’s championship a bust because if we don’t win we going back to tanking that’s not how it’s going to So if Kevin Durant don’t pan out and we don’t win the championship then we still got stuff in the cupboard in the in the ice we still got things in the clip wouldn’t that be a mark on Stone if he traded Kevin Durant in this and we didn’t get nothing out of this at all and we had to go you know what I’m saying i I will give it to Stone because he at least he went for it he tried yeah I understand that’s all you can do bro you know that that’s all you can do and it still for me it still goes against your record you know what I’m saying whether you get it or not you know what I’m saying it is what it is you know that’s that’s basketball you know you it’s a make or miss league and uh you know I I feel that some some people are taking it too far with the championship or bus and I think that people are they I think it’s a couple it’s a lot of factors in there because you got some Jaylen Green fans and then you got some people that’s kind of genuinely worried and uh I think that it’s a it’s a middle it’s a it’s a middle for that and I think that it the when the fans that you’re talking to that’s Jaylen Green fans that’s just worried about him yes you can have that sort of you know tone with those people but I I feel like there are some section of rocket fans who are a little worried and it ain’t even about Jaylen Green it’s just about the KD situation in itself so I think that’s I think that’s what some people are trying to get out but they can’t really say it without people just automatically thinking that they think it’s about Jaylen Green and that’s the mostly the problem i think he’s just psyching themselves out yeah i would say it’s not like to me my approach doesn’t change from when we’re winning 16 games to 60 games me and Space always going to explain it logically because the reason I I kind of ask some questions to bros because I got to see his framework of where he got to that thought because in order for you to have a a genuine conversation we got to lay out the facts and look at what is the current situation if you come in with wrong assumptions about contract lengths and stuff like that then you’re not going to have so it’s not just for us to just let people pop off but we you know in the community we also got to share some knowledge on okay if you looked at it like this now if you just don’t like the trade because you don’t like KD yeah I can’t you know people just don’t like KD some people don’t like the way he play his manurism that’s all genuine stuff but to me to say that the Rockets are in somehow a worse situation which some people have said than they were because of this trade there is no logical sense for because like Space said when you say championship or bust that means that you going all in and the beauty the beautiful part of this is that the Rockets did not go all in they essentially turned Jaylen Green and a draft pick that was not going to see the court this year into Kevin Durant while also keeping their financial flexibility and I think that the bet is either the only way we’ll look stupid if Jaylen turned into a allNBA level all NBA like Kobe Bryant level type guy that’s and then and then we gonna be like damn bro then yeah that’ll look dumb but if he is just who he is and he goes on have a good career and KD comes here and we go even if let’s say we go to the Western Conference Finals twice I still value that even though to your point about winning the championship of course we won a championship bro but to me I don’t I don’t look at it in such a black and white thing because we have young players i think a playoff run a deep playoff run still has value for Amen Thompson and Shangon and Jabari so that once they get another player to fill in or maybe it’s one of them maybe a man turns into a AllNBA a top 10 player they have that experience to lean on because I feel like that’s important it’s not a microwave thing i know OKC did it in a microwave but they’re an outlier most teams hell a King I mean George like you got to you got to bang your head a couple times before you finally break through that door so that that’s all I’m saying bro i don’t think it’s just like it’s a waste because we didn’t get a a championship in two years like I just want to see them keep ascending that’s all I want to see uh and we do have the 2027 the two 2027 picks to back to like I like I say the trade is the Stone did a a masterful job with this stone has been doing his thing from day one and yes he’s had some missteps here and there but that’s you know that comes with the job and overall man I’ve been satisfied with Stone and like I said man I’m on board with the trade let’s go Rockets let’s go win a championship let’s go do this thing and uh I just want you know I’m trying to trying to bridge the gap between that worried side and the other side who because I’ve came over I slept on it i’ve had time to you know analyze it and look at everything but there’s still some people that’s for whatever reason on the other side and I think that you know without just coming saying well you you’re a James Green fan or you you this you that let’s try to bridge it together and if they don’t want to listen then you know we just go on about our business but you broke it down well Frank and you know you and Space broke it down well and let’s go i’m ready for sure let me Let me see what Moses got to say i think you’ve been trying to get in here moses you with us yes sir can you hear me yeah I can hear you bro oh how y’all doing man we good man what you thinking man sweet i guess I’m in the minority because I love this trade so you’re not in the minority i don’t know what’s going on me and Frank I think we pretty much love this trade too i mean it’s incredible for like the first two days I was just happy the entire two days man just it’s an incredible trade i mean for me I think we have to believe in our in our base as a team in our floor i think a man Thompson and Shang give a very high floor because I believe last year without Jaylen Green we still make the playoffs and still get bounced in the first round so to me removing Jaylen Green that’s like 27% usage rate and you bring in a KD to replace that how can you not be happy with that you know so I think the flow of this team is really what and email doa you know is really what’s made Kevin Durant come here cuz moving forward every single year without a KD without a without a another star I believe this team is a playoff team every single year from now on so you adding a 1A player definitely taking us to the top and like you said earlier I don’t think know we’re not done yet i think a good and if we can get a Derek White that would be incredible as well that definitely be a chip you know so I think a Derek White even if you replace a Derek White with a JG last year I think we make the Western Conference Finals so just having a a solid or fringe allstar level shooting guard or allstar level player or scorer or whatever you know what I’m saying takes this team to that next level so like I said we just our base is our base is so high we’re not far we’re not far away at all so just adding any type of range of all-star level player to this team is taking us to the top so we just And speaking about the the usage Oh I’m sorry go ahead just a little more marginal you know tweaks here and that’s it you can add a a point guard shooting guard just to like a a digit McConnell level type of player just to you know help out a little bit i think you know be real good and ready to go for sure and you you mentioned the usage rate of Jaylen Green at 26 uh percent and I think KD is right at like 32% and if that’s still we bringing him over and he gets that usage rate but it’s at a higher much higher efficiency you know what I’m saying he got a higher usage rate but well like leaps and bound more efficient than Jaylen you know what I’m saying and you plug that in bro we we might be looking at at least the finals at least we at least in the Western Conference Finals this year yeah yeah for sure western Conference finals every healthy of course healthy western conference finals at least not I think for I think I think we are trying to stay championship robust but if we don’t make the western conference finals healthy I think it would be a little bit disappointment but I think because I mean Kevin Durant right in 30 points every freaking playoff game so exactly exactly now um I want to show y’all something because you know I don’t really rock with Nick Wright but uh Nick Wright I wouldn’t do this but he made a good point here well not a good point but he put something in the atmosphere you know the Rockets couldn’t get over Golden State katie’s like “I’m gonna come over there and help you guys.” Well and and here’s the other thing the Rockets couldn’t get over Golden State and who are the Rockets trying to get over now oklahoma City kd’s old team and so there is some nice kind of storylines there um I think it’s a perfect fit and they didn’t give up too much they kept their depth they kept their flexibility i think oddly they actually still if he were to come available midseason now this what we this what is interesting i don’t know if I’d do it but might have the ability to still trade for Giannis and like that i don’t think that’s off the board the Who are you saying trade for Giannis the the Rockets the Rockets yeah I think the Let me I I can try to do this on the fly real quick and then we’re going to have to move on now he’s going to present a trade like Reed Shepard um Fred Van Valle and all of our first round picks if this happened then you can legitimately say it’s championship or bus cuz now we we we out of everything now we didn’t threw all our hat I mean all our chips to the middle of the table and now it’s championship a bus our question is who gonna give Giannis the ball exactly fred and Reed oh lord kb gonna be running point i think one person was mentioning earlier about um the Raptors championship run like how Kawawaii came in and I think it’s definitely similar cuz I think Kawawaii and Katie like the same type of player in terms of they really don’t want to be leaders they just want to come in and hoop so when you have a structured team around them they are just icing on the cake and they they take it with the top so I call them mercenaries just they come in they do their job and they go and that’s all we need yeah yeah i I think you can see the similarities right there they was close they added KD they couldn’t never get past LeBron you know what I’m saying the Raptors they couldn’t He was just They was LeBron was a Raptors killer right and then once they It did kind of benefit that LeBron left right he kind of left and went did his own thing but once they got u Kawawaii it put them over the top and not one person in Toronto is complaining about that championship exactly oh bro if we win one championship not even two if we get a championship out of this the rebuild has been successful cuz that’s what you do it for the rebuild has been successful even if we get one chip and we don’t and then we just like after this chip we just consistently in the playoffs you know what I’m saying and we don’t never run another chip but it was a successful rebuild because we got a chip out of it i feel like our team has two two phases now I’m not talking about Rafel Stone phases but I feel like Yeah I know what you’re talking about yeah I feel like we’re in the early phase of this this and they’re KD is going to usher them into the second phase and I think that’s why I’m I’m really excited is because you’re still investing in what you started with honestly minus Jaylen um because at the end of the day I think all of this is really relying on you coming out of that this draft not with just trading players but you you actually get a guy out of it that is like he’s a guy so I like that’s what that’s why I just want to emphasize the age of our players i think because they’ve been playing together so long people really forget that these dudes is super young and they are all even Jaylen was really really young in doing this so to me the best argument that I’ve heard for like they should have kept Jaylen is not because they thought he was going to win a championship just that continuity and um just bank on the super long-term development over the years which um I don’t know if that’s realistic in today’s NBA with all the cap stuff but there’s another version of this team that involves even some of the same court players in their mid to late 20s if they can keep them together that’s the main thing and that’s why I think space people really forgot that a lot of team Well how old was Jordan when he won his first ring like 28 he was like 28 like it’s not everybody isn’t the same bro yeah it’s sometimes you just gota once again like what Space was saying earlier and what Daryl my say your job as a as a GM is to give your your your team the best shot every year you want to set a team out there that has a chance to win a championship and the more you do that the higher your odds are that you will land on one because there’s a lot that has to go wrong for a team to lose and a lot to go right for a team to win but I think right now today the Rockets are in a better situation to win the championship than we were um before the trade and that’s all you can ask for and I still think that with the cap flexibility in the future stuff they are in prime situation to receive another player that becomes available on the market because one of the most coveted assets we have is our coach whether people like him or not eay Eay has he got he got he got he got the cache he got the swag he got that cache bro bro got juice so I mean we we good bro they extended Eay he’s going to be here you got your young guys you got Shangun on a darling contract so even if he becomes an AllNBA player he’s getting paid as a role player you got a man Thompson on a rookie deal for another two years at least they just did what a NFL team would do with a rookie quarterback exactly go get you some stars and try to go win some real quick before you got to pay that man that’s all yeah and to your point we had the Knicks calling us up trying to trade for our coach that’s how much everybody they was trying they Hey they they hard up for a coach right now they stuck with T man they crazy bro i don’t know what type of desperation they was trying to get us for our coach bro like what’s going on but yeah man i think we in like Frank was saying we got this phase right now pre with KD with Fred Van Vleet give us and like I said earlier give us another two years to see which one of these guys is really can be that guy and take us there and then if this don’t happen if we don’t you know get a championship KD walk he’s old he retired Fan Vleet old he goes you know to the bench or somewhere or maybe to another team we still got cap room flexibility and we still got draft picks to you’re in another point another phase you know what I’m saying another era to the Rockets remember we talked about on on the spaces too about uh the fact that the ball handling duties now that you get to give opportunities to other guys why don’t you touch on that about how with Jaylen now because Jaylen was our either leading or primary like on ball player um last season yeah this him because KD is not a like pat pat pat he’s a he gonna get the ball get to a spot pull up um so now you talk about Reed Shepard even hell even Cam Whitmore some of the other if they don’t trade him in the next few weeks some of the other guys on the team that actually get an opportunity to show what they got yeah it opens up it it opens up our back cart because even even a man Thompson even a man Thompson will be able to have the ball in his hands more kd don’t need the ball all KD you just need to get him the ball in his spots and he’s a one dribble pullup guy so now Jaylen’s off the court that goes that 26% usage rates somebody else got to fill in right and the next people or players to fill in for him naturally is Reed Shepard Aman Thompson and uh Cam Whitmore now we can see what they got right and it could be almost while we’re winning we can still evaluate these guys you know with the balls in their hands and then come mid-season okay he’s not ready we can still make a a move or a trade or sign somebody or you know what I’m saying like this we are we have good problems right now great problems the acquisition of Kevin Durant have just not only put us in the window to win a championship but also gave us a chance to give these young guys extra time to develop to where they’re not just pushed into the limelight and we saying we need you to to do it like I don’t see too many Besides injuries which can happen to anyone I don’t see too many negatives to this move that’s why that’s why I’m baffled when and I scratch my head when people say “Well you you mortgage your whole future.” No we didn’t no we didn’t Frank what’ you say bro nah did you want to Oh yeah yeah i mean you spot on you spot on bro you You spot on like once again it’s it’s flexibility is invest and people assuming that guys ain’t just gonna get better like a man Thompson could really just come in and be an all-star and then we talking about like a scary scenario shangoon already allstar shangon could we hope he come in better than what he was even though he wasn’t bad but he could be a lot better he could be better especially finishing at the rim right and then you start unlocking other stuff that we don’t we haven’t really seen in this era of Rockets basketball just the shot making the club remember uh the sometimes you sometimes always that’s out the door we have a pecking order now we we do we have a legit hierarchy now bro bro that stuff is done and it’s ironic the person that made it they traded he got traded hey shout out bro hey but but but this the thing too we automatically assuming that the rest of the league is not going to be get better like they going to stay stagnant as well you know what I’m saying no other teams are going to make moves they’re going to get better hell OKC they got a treasure trove of of stuff they can still go out and and trade some of their core uh their their bottom end pieces which is hell of a players and package and then they can bring another superstar with SGA then we now we got problems problems you know what I’m saying so it’s this just the time to do it and we can’t rest on our laws like oh yeah we got young guys we can just sit back let them develop no because we got teams around the league that you know we’re going to be competing with and OKC is a problem and they can get better man they will that’s a team that hasn’t they’ve made um lower end tier trades because what they’re looking for out of a guy is already there so some of the like the delay that you see with OKC is like if you got an MVP then yeah you don’t need to make a trade for KD or any type of player you you just need to get more role players um I think that once again it’s a calcul and I honestly I don’t even know if the Rockets think Jaylen is like done developing i just think that they don’t to me I I’ll be honest like I don’t I’m not a in their locker room or as a coach watching film or break watching in practice but there is a if as a coach you’d be able to tell if the type of development he needs is enough to get to where you’re trying to go what I mean by that is his issue is not talent like Jaylen is super talented he’s a hard work he got he got all the like the physical intangibles except like size he’s you know explosive athlete um the his problem was that he couldn’t read the game and to me for a player you want to trust with your franchise that’s the worst problem to have like if you can’t read the game then you really can’t win a championship because you’re going to struggle in the playoffs every time bro we see some of the most nonathletic people person players that ca that can read the game dominate like Jokic and you know Luc and and you know what I’m saying yeah hell SGA i mean he’s not a super freak LeBron he’s he’s just he just can play basketball he knows the game he can read offensive and defensive body language he he’s a savant at scoring um it’s kind of ironic the two leading guards this year for the two teams aren’t even like super dunkers like jumper out the room it’s just dudes that know how to hoop bro yep yep rich Bass you on stage what’s going on man what’s up Space how What’s happening bro what’s up man what’s up man salute to y’all boys man i just jumped in on the conversation uh I’m going to make a wild take man uh I’m glad we got KD i I do think we need pieces i don’t think we done yet you know we still got some gaping holes that we got to fill but uh you can tell that it’s a win now move they ready to win they ready to compete at a high level I think but I to come out wild take um and y’all might say I’m crazy it’s cool but uh I think they was trying to see what Jaylen had this year cuz I think they had their replacement on that bench y’all know what I’mma say it’s Cam Cam Whitmore cam Whitmore i think I think because it’s no way and I get it cam he didn’t in moments that he did get the opportunity he didn’t really shine in those moments but you got to think if you playing not really playing a guy with those minutes he not going to come in as sharp as you want him to but it’s no way you leave him on the bench against Golden State and I and I get it he’s still young still got to learn the game it’s the playoffs you trying to win i get it but he could have gave you some off the bench you know as adult as a head coach you got to switch it up you know as you can see with those two Indiana and OKC they went deep in their bench so you going to test what you have to see if you can get get a game or two when you know your starters don’t have it you going to go with your bench but I really feel like they wanted to see what Jaylen had to make a decision cuz they had Cam Whitmore as um as a fallback per se cuz I think the kid got it he just got to play he got to figure out how to play within the system but I think he’s an adult guy is he has the right attitude u I think us getting KD is actually going to help him out not mainly I’m not saying this the reason but they’re both from Baltimore if y’all know anything about Baltimore Cash man they have a certain mentality and I think Odul Adokulka has that mentality too i think he really love Cam but he just want him to play within the system so if Cam can figure it out uh sh up his jump shot I think Cam is a starting two going forward what you think one thing that one thing that I I would agree that Cam have going for him that Jaylen don’t or didn’t is that Cam didn’t come in through a rebuild with a coach like Silas you know what I’m saying like he’s going to get coached hard from day one he’s going to be be held responsible for day one now it’s just going to be on Cam it’s all gonna be on Cam because we seen him get a little burned last year and then he got into the doghouse by Udoka right so Cam is not going to have that mental you know block as far as tanking and all of the baggage that come with it so maybe he he starts off in a better position but ultimately it’s going to be up to Cam to want to be more team oriented not a black hole and be able to learn the game right and if if Jaylen become can become a decent defender I think Cam can become a decent defender too but do he want it yeah I agree 100% man and I actually I think to your point bro about uh Cam like playing and you know I ain’t thought about it from that angle i mean that’s a that’s a good point i would say the only uh like the way I see it like you know I was talking earlier about uh you could get away with not being like a soant of the game if if you have a god-given ability that you can’t teach cam is big he he built like a like a middle linebacker so and he he can get to the rim like with with bulldozing people instead of trying to avoid but like you said bro he got to play within the structure of the game and that’s 100% on him and he is like talk about a guy that has all the tools bro dude got even on defense his body is made for him he’s he can get low he can sit in a chair he can move his feet he’s explosive he should be damn near the archetype for like MVP type player but between the the ears that’s where he got to mature the most um but yeah he can’t say it’s is because really that that position that shooting guard position as it stands right now there’s a big hole right there because I don’t think a man Thompson It’s wide open wide open it’s wide open bro it’s It’s wide open for him to take cuz I like you said I don’t believe Almond is too i think he’s a Scotty Pippen type archetype a point forward uh you got you got Van Fleet at the guard me at the uh you know point guard and I want Jabari I want Jabari to start i really do but I think I think we need a shooting guard that can playmate and that can get in that can get off i think Bari got to start truthfully so we can have at least three shooters in the lineup because with Shangon and Amed then you going to put Steven Adams you know what I’m saying starting or somebody else or like uh re or Cam that’s not really ready still figuring out the game I think rebounding going for Bari three-point shooting going for Bari hype mismatch bar starting Katie gonna play the Yeah Barry should start at four back gonna be a man and a Fred that’s what it’s going to be and uh I think that it’s going to be an interesting team i think that team the length from two through five everybody is damn near 68 and taller and uh and switchable switchable you know what I mean even Shangon even Shangon can step out on the island so it’s like that’s an interesting team man and I think for multiple reasons I know nobody talk about I think we got better defensively in our starting 52 um because you have more length and with them zones they like to play with Odoka when they like to go double big sometimes uh instead of having you know Jaylen and like Fred out there now you just bump KD into one of those spots you’re able to take up more space um it’s it’s a lot of things and I think the underrated part you kind of touched on this a little bit space like the benefit of having a truly like a top 25 all-time player in your in your room to be around for guys to be around to learn from kd ain’t got to be no rah like teacher but just watch his work ethic work out with him you going against a man gonna be guarding KD at practice every day bro yeah then he Hey Denny block at um I ain’t gonna lie man had that boy in Rikers Island bro but but he gonna be going against him at practice every single day bro how much knowledge this man picked up over the 17 years of his career about different players different offensive players how do you guard this set in the playoffs a lot of times what people don’t know is like some of these adjustments that are made midame come from players on the court bro like that’s why it’s hard for young teams to really make a run that’s why what OKC did is so impressive because a lot of times it be the vets be like “Nah no we got to do this we got to guard this i’ve seen this before we you know I know how he you know da da da.” And they start making these adjustments on the fly to counter what teams are doing in real time so I I I to me I just see the value all around um I think the only thing that could make this bad is injuries and it like Space said it could happen to any player it’s not just Kevin Durant if if one of our key players gets hurt then we’re going to be in a pickle regardless so um it’s it’s exciting basketball man i think but it’s ultimately when it starts and people get to see it I think that’s when everybody gonna be all this gonna be relevant yeah y’all gonna be like man I don’t even know why I was tripping tripping i don’t even know why I was tripping bro exactly you know uh Citman you on stage what’s up Chat what up man what it do man long time what’s good bro what’s good bro long time hey matter of fact before you go Chat man has been here with us for four years running plus almost five years and you know how we was going through the through hell right Chad in these in these postgame live streams all I got to say is point guard tape point guard Tate yo Tate hey Tate is really the survivor of all this bro this man is like a roach in the nuclear war bro i don’t know how he’s still hiding you feel me he went through World War II and made it out yes man i don’t know how bro every year we we plan on getting rid of Tate and he’s still here bro for a bag of chips yeah for for a bag of chips and a uh miniade Kool-Aid like we was trying to trade Tate for everything but go ahead chat man how you feeling about the trade oh I feel great i love it uh the one thing I wanted to bring up uh for people that were on the fence you know giving up Jaylen is if Jay worst case scenario Jaylen stays the same how much money we paying Jaylen for the next two years people don’t talk about that and whether he lives up to that contract yeah i think it was for the because he had a team option right like 33 plus yeah 30 yeah that’s $100 million basically so if he was the same option Yeah if he played the same like this how y’all feel about him making that much money i mean he wasn’t bad bro like I I think See once again like dude was saying earlier about like y’all know I like Jaylen so like I I think we have to separate his progression on a m macro level from year to year and then his performance in the playoffs the sad thing is as you get older in the NBA progression starts mattering less and your performances start mattering more because like at some point it’s like all right bro like we ain’t got all day for this so I think he was progressing to me like trending uh appropriately as far as his development my my concern is that I think his issue wasn’t like oh he’s just a basketball no I think his issue was processing on the court and that issue is that is like I didn’t I’m gonna give y’all the example of a player and I’m not saying Jaylen is this player in in as far as like how he is or how he acts so Jaylen is the opposite actually but J.R smith hella talented player had explosive can shoot all this stuff but dude just not he he has the ceiling on his process of the game like no matter what like so when you get some players like that not saying Jay and Jaylen Jr i’m not I’m not saying that i’m just giving you an example that it’s not like developing your shooting form or developing like reading basketball me personally I believe there’s a level that you can learn and a lot of this stuff is just kind of natural and just you just got it like you can see the game a different ways and if you don’t got it then you’re a role player and you just stay in a role that is defined for you and you can’t make decisions the problem is the Rockets were given Jaylen ability to make decisions and if you are your role is to be an onball guard that is relied upon to make decisions and read the game and that is a a big problem you have then I see why they’re like uh I don’t know if we could we could like keep moving forward with this because it’s not really about his skill per se it’s just his role on the team leading scorer leading ball handler and you’re not like a cade or you know one of these kind of Trey Youngs that can it’s kind of hard to really win like that and I think that that’s why they did yeah I 100% agree with that uh one other thing uh Rich brought it up and I have to push back a little on you really think Cam is a EMA guy i feel like a EA guy is super high Q and you’re gonna give it all on defense i mean I think he can i’m not speaking for Rich but I think he can become that cuz he’s still young and he’s malleable right as long as he’s culturable cuz at at one point in time we thought Jaylen wasn’t going to never be too much on defense and he actually stood up and he was that was one of his strongest part of his game this season was his defense right so I think he can be if he want to be and if the if he takes the coaching and he listen to coaching if he’s coachable I think he can be a guy i think he can be a guy but go ahead Rich no I I agree with you SP i think he can what I mean by a guy because I think it’s many variations of what type of guy that Adoka really likes you know you’re right he does he do like high IQ players i give you that he really do he cherish those kind of guys but I mean just by just by how he played as a player he played with a certain grit and tenacity and Cam has that a tangible but how everybody what everybody I think critique on Cam is is that he does it’s not that he doesn’t have a talent it’s just between the ears i think Space said it somebody said it and it’s it’s it’s just like you said the IQ part of it uh uh reading the game and and really figuring out so that’s what I mean by an adula guy you know now the IQ part I think it’s just going to have to come this his third year so he has time to grow into that but I think now is the time for him to come into that all right can y’all hear me yeah we can i thought I was tripping but yeah yeah I thought I lost connection me too i guess Rich had it was on Rich end because it just went quiet i was like “Whoa whoa hold up what happened?” But uh we got the gist of what he what he was saying so uh Chad man you want to respond to that or you good on his explanation oh I’m good that that’s the only push back I had was the IQ thing like I I’m not sure that fully comes together for him i mean I think we need to get more evaluation with him being on the court and especially like in high pressure situations playoffs and or either like nailbiting games last five minutes of a game that’s going back and forth to see what his mental um fortitude is you know what I’m saying and then I think we can make that adjustment on whether or not he can or can’t be i think right now just a little bit premature to say he can’t definitively but to have questions about it definitely it’s not uh out of the realm of possibility that he can’t you know what I’m saying but I think we just need more onc court evaluation of whether he can or can’t be uh Rizza you’re on stage rizza yeah hi man i’m Aaron man i’m Aaron it’s just my uh my other account man oh Aaron from Turkey right yeah yeah yeah okay okay yeah I remember i just I just I just streamed in I just came up uh I I didn’t listen to the whole show but I just I just wanted to uh reflect what uh all this Kevin Durant trade uh would mean to Alparan and uh his uh his future at the rockets uh in Turkey uh there are two pathways right now which reflect Alpurn’s uh career and I just wanted to talk about that man i just wanted to say what uh the media and what the people in Turkey Go ahead we love the insights go ahead uh one stream of thought is he’s going to get traded for Giannis uh because now uh they think here and this is not my thought but uh one opinion is he’s going to he’s going to get traded for Giannis because it’s going to be KD and Giannis and Amen because uh here they think if you give up Jabari if you give up Alpi and if you give up the two Houston picks it’s going to be enough for Giannis uh another train of thought is that uh Alpi is not going to get traded and but then the pressure is up to him because uh KD because uh the the second stage of the rebuild is officially done it was the first stage of the rebuild and after the KD trade it’s the third stage of the rebuild it’s it’s it’s winning time now so there is no second stage so now the pressure is up to Alpi because no matter if you trade for KD or you play with the Jaylen uh you still have to be the focus of the offense because okay KD is a terrific terrific all-time great shooter But he needs to be made available and free to make those shots that means that Alpi has to sacrifice and that also means that Alp has to assist so one train of thought is they’re going to trade him for Giannis and the other train of thought is he’s going to be he’s going to be there for the next two three years as long as KD is there as long as the championship is there to double team in the center and to just throw it back to KD so it’s it’s it does from from here which I do not agree but from here it looks like this is not a good trade for Alpi no matter what i I will I will push back on that i think this is an excellent trade for Alp and the reason why I’m saying that is because now you h your your defense is going to be turned looking at KD no matter where he is all 10 eyes on the court will be looking at KD now you can’t double Shangon you can’t double Shangon and if you double Shangon KD is can work in the 15t range all the way out to the three-point range right and you can’t really do like a drop big on KD because he can just pull up over you so now the center is either going to get played off the floor they’re going to have to go small and then LP would demolish anyone that’s small you know what I’m saying power forward and under if they trying to hold him right and the spacing is open now right now he got more space where he can do the spin moves and and survey the floor and assist and just be LP because he’s not he’s going to be the focal point but all eyes cannot be on him and you can’t just focus put more than uh one player on him because now you leaving KD you know what I’m saying like it’s going to be a pick your poison type of I’m I’m really going to be interested on how teams try to guard Alp while KD is on the court right because that’s not Jaylen you don’t just got to back up and hope Jaylen just going to come to you because he have to because his shot shot not falling the only option he got is to come downhill pack the paint now they can’t pack the paint because KD gonna kill you you know what I’m saying i think this is going to be great for Al P and I don’t think KD ever played with a guy like Al P before at the center position you know what I’m saying i think it go hand in hand man i think both of them going to benefit from each other and I think Al P is going to be here i think he’s going to be here bro because he’s the one that he’s the cream that rose to the top from all these young guys i think it’ll just be dumb to get rid of LP right now i agree with you i I 100% agree with you sorry somebody wanted to step and say something no I said yeah I think um his contract is so team friendly that in itself is an asset as long as he keeps producing at a all-star level he’s he’s a his contract just by the fact that he he didn’t get the rookie scale max and he’s actually got way less than that um those are the type of players that you have to get lucky with to actually win a championship um you have to get lucky on some of these contracts sometimes it comes because a guy got injured like in a case that frees up for you to get that extra player that you needed to make the run so um if they do trade him for like a player um I mean that is I think any player can get traded at this because in NBA that applies to everybody so it’s not just an LP thing or and there are no untouchables you know I mean you would have thought Luca was untouchable if they traded him like everybody can get traded so I don’t think you just think like oh my god they’re I mean yeah if if they feel like they can they can make a trade to improve the team they’re going to do that but um like Space said I don’t think that’s likely going to be the scenario because um he’s cheap he’s young and he’s good so and for Kevin Durant why this is on the basketball side this is it’s even more beneficial for KD like the last good great center he’s played with was I’m trying to think who some of the great centers KD’s played with i guess if you Draymond I guess Draymond what Draymond really is not a he’s like quas steven Adams yeah even Adam but he’s on our team right so that’s the last like I would say the best cuz Nick Claxton offensively doesn’t give you anything at all when they were in Brooklyn like nothing um and Katie was not running pick and roll to throw lobs so he has the DHO partner and is to me the ceiling of our offense is on email odoka we know how he can pass we know he can score he’s one of the if not well he’s not if not he’s probably top three four isolation big man in the league where he can cook you by himself anytime he gets single coverage he’s going to drop 35 and that’s like a given don’t matter who it is that’s guarding him um so teams are selling out to send uh they send help on a catch so he catch the ball they send help then when he makes his move they send a third guy it gets a lot harder when the dude that you send the help to uh from is cheating off of Kevin Durant Jabari Smith and Fred Van Vleet and and you know and whatever whoever else is out there and so then you think about the pick and rolls that and KD does run pick and roll even though he’s not looking to pass it y’all remember a lot of the times when we would run pick and rolls in F with Fred and Jaylen the defense is either gonna trap them which forces them to give the ball to LP when he goes downhill pretty devastating and that’s how Jabari eats and some of our shooters get open or if they let the pick and roll uh go go all the way through the the big man starts bailing back and they they invite those mid-range jump shots like I wanted Fred to take a bunch of those he never did i don’t know fred would just act crazy jaylen he was so inconsistent with that shot that was that’s the shot that uh SJ won an MVP off of that little that little pick and roll mid-range because you got drop coverage that pull up katie shoots those at a rate of about 55 56% on high volume some of the highest volume in the league the reason I’m bringing that up is that if you can’t step up to stop that the pressure of having Alp get a a head of steam on your center or whoever it is and get him out of here in foul trouble that is so like it’s to me it’s it’s really up to doer bro eay gota like he got to get in his bag and we can’t do that old stupid just like figure it out stuff like bro they gotta have some baseline system that they run i think it’ll be a lot easier now that we have a 1A for sure because I think one of the issues even with Cam Whitmore and some of the younger guys is like well I know Jaylen that’s my boy but I I think I’m still better than him oh I know Shangon that’s my boy I’m better than him there’s nobody on the team that think they better than uh than KD so that alone helps your hierarchy and I think it should help the offense overall yeah he he’s going to be the security blanket really when the clock running down we Oh oh oh well KD boom security blanket pull up over everybody that’s two points right so I think it’s just beneficial for the whole team and and then especially for KD go ahead Rizza then I got to move to Terrell uh he’s been waiting go ahead Brizzle what you got to say no I was just uh salute to the panel uh I was just listening for a minute but I think somebody was saying somebody was saying about uh getting Yiannis man i think trading for Giannis would be like building a Phoenix team again that he just had with with Bill and all those guards we’ll be it we’ll be too topheavy at a position and it it’ll just bog us down again it just wouldn’t work i think the team that we have now which maybe needs some little pieces to go with it maybe a shooting guard here or there but I’m I’m a risk base too on I think C I know everybody want uh Jabari to step into the starting lineup i think Cam would be a better fit if you ask me because with with KD you lose some youth and you want to be able to run and gun with men so I think I think he’ll be a better fit uh with that lineup but I also think the trading Shingun I don’t know where that’s coming from but that’s crazy like I I don’t know if anybody’s seen Yiannis’s game but everybody would have to stop the way they played the way he played so that just wouldn’t work but now I think this the best situation uh I think Shinon should he should that mid-range he can’t be hesitating this year he got to establish that mid-range like that’s that’s like a a real thing going into this year him and Almond developing a better shot all of them but especially those two especially in that mid-range bro thank you for bringing that up everybody talk about the three-point shot for Shangon to me they giving him up the mid-range because they scared of him getting to the basket and backing them down that little floater he got to he got to be on automatic on those like this year that’s what I’m looking at yeah yeah yeah and um I think you you hit the nail on the head too when you said the way Giannis play he he’s coming downhill he want the ball so you got to have stationary jump shooters you got to play five out you know what I’m saying you got to play a five out system and you got to have stationary jump shooters to when he gets you the ball from or when the defense collapse he kicks that’s three points that’s why Brook Lopez and all of those guys were successful just raining in threes because Giannis demand so much in the paint and I don’t think our team is built that way especially if we’re going to keep or if we get rid of Shangon or if we keep him i don’t think we got enough jump shooters around to facilitate what Giannis do well you know what I’m saying so yeah that’s that’s good points rizza you did you want to finish what you were saying earlier Rizza yeah man uh when uh I was talking about those two things that uh that were speculating in the Turkish media that wasn’t my opinion uh but what my opinion is is that uh with the KD trade I think that uh the rebuild is officially finished i mean uh before uh this pod uh in the last season uh I was talking about when when when I was uh on the pod I was talking about uh that Rafael had to choose at the end of this season of who he was going to pick and who he was not going to pick and and and he picked it was Jaylen and it is uh Dylan those guys are out and now KD is in but with KD this also establishes a timeline of okay KD has two years three years and in those two years three years if you if you have a superstar if you have KD one of the best shooters ever you are going to gun for the championship if you like it or not so now officially the rebuild is done and we have taken our first shot and I think more shots will come i I don’t think that Alpie is going to get traded it it it it looks like from uh the Turkish media that they think that Alpie is going to get traded for Giannis i don’t think it is i think they can work together well uh what I am worried about of this year is last year was close last year was really really close we had a few injuries jabari injury uh we had also uh Steven Adams joining late with the double big uh it’s it’s it’s a tight it’s it’s a thin rope man it’s a thin robe i mean this year it’s going to be close because it’s going to be close because this year last year there were no expectations this year the expectations is even Las Vegas’s expectations are you have to be in the first two three two three record or uh in the in in the Western Conference in the top two or three we just did that yeah exactly but can we do it again and it was close if if but you know honestly wasn’t that going to be the expectation again though like that’s why I don’t know what to me like a lot of people think KD is coming to save the Rockets like we weren’t scrubs that Yeah we’re the second team in the West so I think like I don’t see him as I think you guys are looking at from the standpoint they’re giving a lot of credit to KD i see it as they are seeing a young talented team that was on the cusp of going to the second round against a really talented veteran team in the Golden State and they’re saying this young talented team added all the player you just described so I I think there is I think the pressure for Shenun was already going to be there regardless following up a all-star year he was like one vote away from being all third team allNBA um it all this stuff was still going to be there like it’s not he’s still gonna be playing for a This is the big boy NBA this is how it happens bro and if he’s good if a man is good the difference between good players and guys that are okay is that they are on a night in nightight out basis going to give you what they give you and I saw that last year from both of them dudes and in the latter part of the playoffs when everybody else was cra was just going to [ __ ] in the bed there was stretches in the game where I seen some twoman stuff with Alp and Sh and and men that I think the Rockets considered all of that bro i think they considered how ShenGun looked defensively in the playoffs if he got cooked by the Warriors he probably would have got traded but when you have them playoff runs and uh our friend Mike on Twitter Uncle Mike on Twitter always says this like these things are data points and the data points happened in the playoffs for the Rockets and they use that data to make a move and every year going forward that’s what you do as a as a good organization you look at what you got and you make a calculated decision on okay we see what we got here how can we improve on this so I don’t think Shangon or Amen or Jabari I mean a lot of the young guys they they played their role i think Jaylen sadly was the only one that was not able to fulfill his role and they saw an opportunity to upgrade and they did if it comes let’s say Shangon still shooting 49% from the field he they gonna ship him out just because we got to get better bro it’s the Houston Rockets not the Houston Shangons the Houston Jaylen Greens or the Houston Jabaris or Houston Amen Thompson’s this is it bro like y’all lucky we ain’t had Daryl Mory still bro i don’t know oh man man he might have traded four of them would Pistons everybody would have been gone the whole fan base you ain’t lying but you remember Frank we used to we tried to caution the fan base es the ones that watch our channel regular about getting too attached to to players we told them when this time comes which is when we in right now some of these guys will be gone so we’re Houston Rockets fans we want the best for the Houston Rockets not the best for my ego or my favorite player you know what I’m saying i was a Houston Rocket fan before these guys i’mma be a Houston Rockets fan after these guys so I want to see the Houston Rockets win a championship i don’t want to see you know like some people oh I want Harden to win the championship because that’s my favorite player by All right that’s cool if he gets one cool he’s not a Houston rocker no more i want the Rockets to win one before Harden i don’t care what you say you know what I’m saying i’m a Rockets fan and I want this U franchise to be successful not my favorite player go out and get 30 points a night that’s not what I’m That’s not how I look at it i I ain’t going to lie space if if somehow they trade Almond I might crash at I ain’t trading man they gonna trade Almond cuz he’s still cheap they You don’t get in trouble with being traded till they got to pay you that’s what y’all got to recognize that’s when like unless it’s a star available if it’s like for role player stuff you and if when a man making 40 some million and he still can’t shoot yeah then it might trade his ass until then bro he cool bro he chilling he ain’t gonna go nowhere yeah hey anybody in the chat if you want to come up this is the last call we’re gonna be ending it probably within the next 10 15 minutes go ahead and hit the link if you want to come up and get your take off hit the link it’s pinned at the top of the YouTube chat you can come up and get your takeoff um until then any one of y’all want to got to say something i got I got a little bit to say what I what I Who’s talking somebody’s real low oh my That’s me my bad i got Who’s that true uh yeah it’s me can you hear me okay yeah I can hear you now okay so um I want to start off by saying y’all really cleared up a lot of my doubts about the KD trade i never thought it was a bad trade but like a lot of the worries that I had like I had some of the thoughts that y’all said but I never really like took them to heart now I’m like good about it like I’m not really like oh what we could like we can we can win a championship with this but we could have had like a dynasty with that now I’m just kind of like it is what it is this was definitely the best choice that we made in the situation now I’m just thinking about the actual impacts of the trade on the team and I think like you said earlier I think the people that benefit the most from this trade on this team are definitely Alfred Shenun and honestly Jabari because he’s just going to catch some of them passes that like Shangun would normally make to KD or he would just take himself and they’re not going to notice that he’s even sitting in the corner because they’re worried about KD and they’re worried about Shangun on the inside so I think those two are going to benefit a lot but the thing that I’m really worried about now is our bench unit like cuz I think we all can admit that like there are some problems with um Cam Whitmore obviously i’m not really worried about Shephard like he’s young yeah he just got drafted last year obviously so like he’s not going to be like at the ready at the ready like championship level but like he’ll get better throughout the year i’m worried about the people who’s gonna be like main rotational pieces from day one like I’m thinking like Aaron Holiday and Gan I think yeah I think Erin they’re not gonna I don’t know if they’re going to pick up his contract no they already getting rid of um Jock so and I think he’s in the same He got a great point though that bench is is problematic yeah yeah i don’t disagree jan Tate basketball man again you don’t you don’t want to see J Seant Tate look off KD to ISO no bro oh hell no man I’m tired we gonna wave him off i got this bro like bro I would if I’m tell I’m tackling him on the court bro like straight up man we It really is crazy that he’s still here though like after all this time like that’s wild be the last man standing bro he might be back honestly like who would y’all who do y’all think that we should like go after the in the offseason to improve our bench because I honestly I’m honestly kind of at a loss like who could we rely on or who could we maybe trade for i’ve seen like the likes of like Gary Trent Jr uh I think GB2 is probably up um it’s not really it’s as far as shooting guard guards it’s not really a lot of them out there quinn Grimes quinn Grimes but I don’t But he’s restricted so we gonna have to pay him yeah I don’t want to do that honestly as good as he projects to be um I think just getting more depth i wouldn’t mind it’s kind of a weird situation too because uh you’re in this weird pressure where you want to give yourself the best odds to win the championship at the same time you want to see what you have in Cam Whitmore and and Ree Shepard because like we said earlier without Jaylen’s ball handling you free up a lot of that role for multiple people because it’s it’s and it’s a lot jaylen was on you know on ball a lot so now because a man is not going to just absorb it because that’s not his game so you’re going to use a man in m multiple ways so there’s still leftover ball handling duties you don’t want a older Fan Vleet being just a primary on ball guy so like Reed like Reed is really Reed and Cam are really going to get a shot and you know Eay don’t play he give you about a week and then that say we’ll see you next year so if if they can’t show what I think is going to happen they’ll go in trying to feed the young guys see how that go and then they’ll make they’ll make a trade before the deadline for like some vets okay you know who I seen that was coming up available and he a rocket killer who’s that tim Hardaway Jr i wouldn’t mind that i wouldn’t mind that at all because bro can get hot and just run off the you know five six threes in a row oh also Eric Gordon bro what y’all think about EG coming back the way he was talking about when he left i don’t know man i might have to pass on that eg y’all don’t want That’s what they talk about for real for real for real for real yeah i don’t mind him as the cheerleader at the end of the bench yeah he might come and give you a couple of You know what I mean just a couple minutes what y’all think of like Sam Merrill we need a white boy shooter yeah yeah yeah sam Merrill yeah he’d be good any like just a um a a high high volume movement shooter would be would do like you pair that with all the other moves then you cooking with some there’s still moves they could make and I don’t think like everybody said we we we ain’t done yet we’re not done yet i know they they gonna the team that’s gonna show up to play the first game i don’t know what the schedule ain’t out yet y’all know we playing the Warriors on Christmas or Lakers or some something crazy like that yeah we going to be Hey this Hey that’s one thing about that that’s one thing that’s one thing we going to be in a lot of prime time games now kd is box office the Rockets is box office we didn’t seen people you know this up and coming team like Sacramento get all of these games you know what I’m saying and TNT you know what I’m saying we going it’s going to be a lot of them games this year bro and they’re going to the Rockets Warriors you know we going to be playing the Warriors on Christmas or some uh New Year’s Eve or something crazy like Yeah they going they going to do that we’re gonna get a lot of national attention this year i’m calling it now game one against the Thunder and we ain’t scared of that somebody had said earlier about the Thunder like we ain’t you know the Rockets does not give a damn about the Thunder bro nah like that’s a backyard rivalry it don’t matter who record is what like we played them good so yeah we ain’t worried about the Thunder i I I actually wanted to see them in the playoffs bro even though they probably would have beat us just because they’re ahead of us as a team um at that point uh I I do want to see them in the playoffs because I don’t think they have an answer for Shangon and uh I think now with Kevin Durant that’s a I don’t I like our team i like the mix of youth and maturity that we have i think it’s it’s it’s good and yeah I don’t see OKC’s going to repeat bro i don’t know why why people always say that it’s the beginning of a dynasty says about Denver nba different man makes sense this ain’t back in the day no more bro you get you one you just happy you did you better happy you got that one yeah hey Barlo um you left um you can come back cuz uh we getting ready to close it out go ahead i’mma go in order uh true that was true rich Bass you got something to say before we close out uh no man just I enjoy listening to y’all boys man space Frank um keeping us in tune uh shout out to my boy Terrell one time man but uh nah man with KD bro i I’m just hoping he stay healthy um I think somebody brought it up about a doer just cuz we got KD doka you still got to do your job that don’t mean get that get that boy uh uh the ball top of the key and ISO every time you got to mix it up you know what I’m saying so I hope he fix the little wrinkles that he you know cuz he definitely got our coach in the playoffs cuz we should have won that series regardless of how Jayen played that’s my personal opinion but uh yeah I just hope the guys just come back uh well tuned shooting better with at least a a respectable jump shot you know what I’m saying he going to come in like he SGA this year and just shoot lights out i just hope he’s just respectable you know to where you can bring the defense out you know don’t pack the paint on him so but yeah good show uh yeah that’s my take salute appreciate that Rich uh Chapman I just wanted to ask Frank uh how many more uh Kobe Gasol comparisons we gonna get now that got a running mate they didn’t they didn’t damn like I was thinking about that bro just looking through the old videos and like four years of content down the drain bro it was surreal when he first traded Jaylen because like we all invested a lot in them bro like I you know like I said I believed in him maybe to a fault i think now stepping out of it is like you can see I see why they did it but you want to be optimistic about players especially ones that you think you’ve seen develop in the league but yeah I mean the thing Kobe always had and I alluded to this about a year and a half ago in one of the videos updating that was I got to see where his mind is at bro like Kobe had that mentality kobe was a basketball student and no matter what sport you play if you don’t study the game at a high level you you will not be successful at the highest levels like it’s not there’s no shortcuts around it bro you got to be smart and and uh if y’all like there’s that podcast Mind the Game with Luke not Luca with LeBron and uh JJ Reic used to have before JJ became the coach they talked about that thing about what do you need to be successful in the playoffs and LeBron said you need as many high IQ players on your team as possible he said that it’s not about the talent or how big and fast players are he said you think about the teams that are dynasties the Spurs the Warriors the Bulls it’s like just a bunch of really really smart guys and so so that was my hesitancy with like Jaylen’s upside that’s why I started readjusting it it wasn’t Kobe no more after like two years ago but I mean it is what it is bro we we’ll see what the iteration now i think a man Thompson is is uh something to watch for i still think Shangon is on a Hall of Fame trajectory for his career um I I I I know like I like I said I feel like I know the game of basketball um I feel like the Rockets are in a great spot i think we’re in a better spot than a lot of people give us credit for and honestly OKC got their ring shout out to them they’re done like they don’t have to they could not win but they mission accomplished for them um I think the their team dynamic is going to come back and bite them in a few years because it’s going to get it gets really hard to have a talented team that young so I think us starting to shed off a little bit at a time while upgrading is kind of the typical regular way this happens and yeah it is what it is but y’all should be happy man like I know we’re used to being anxious we’ve been in a state of trauma for like five years well four years as a as a franchise it’s time to enjoy basketball again man y’all boys about to be on TNT they gonna talk about us on First Take not that I watch any of that junk but I’m just saying just it’s it’s a it’s a it’s a topic now you going to be on it’s not no more one national game for the whole year rock is gonna be on probably ESPN or TNT at least once every two weeks so yeah we here man we here this is what we waited for hope God willing everybody healthy and uh yeah let’s let’s go rockets man let’s get it moses you up man thank you for having me enjoy the conversation all right appreciate it short and sweet uh Rizza final take there are two things I’m worried about one it’s not OKC or it’s not Denver but it’s teams like Golden State teams that can dribble teams that are fast teams that play against big teams and they dribble them out that’s number one number two is the thing I’m worried about is I don’t believe that Cam and Reed and Tari are ready to play 82 89 90 95 games at a high level and I have one advice if if if the if if if Rafael or any of his exacts are listening to this you need if you if if if you go this way you need somebody to if everything goes wrong to stem the tide get somebody like Ben Simmons who can defend the shortcut who can defend the shortcut we will bleed if we can’t do that that’s all I got to say thank you ben Simmons is a wild take but bro you had me i was like you had me all the way up to Ben Simmons bro oh damn you couldn’t think of no other name bro that’s what you was cooking up was Ben Simmons who let It’s It’s It’s the worst that we can get right now but even that’s enough all right all right terrell what you got thanks for being on the panel man but um uh from what the guy is saying man I think I’m I’m just happy about everything going into next season i think you just need to probably add another shooter but I think you don’t draft players and and not give them a chance to see what they have so going into next season I think you give it like 25 games to see how Cam come out to see how Reed come out and see how they perform before you just go in and and try to make changes like that so I’m not I’m not worried about that and one thing that they can’t what Eay can do to help the team is to add more emotion to the offense and then you don’t need that uh uh point guard or that that person that that got to run it all the time if you add more motion to this offense I know we got KD but adding more motion to the offense even help everybody else so we just gota uh he just got to do his job a little bit more next year if you ask me yep yep yep bro you bro you sound just like ring leader like he used to come you don’t know ring leader you got another account no man man you sound just like ring leader don’t Frank yeah he do i thought it was ring leader came up on another account you sound just like ring leader bro for real uh but yeah man if you haven’t already go ahead Frank um give your final take or you already gave it no I already I already gave it man go Rockers go Rockers go Rockers now if you haven’t already subscribed to the channel y’all know what time it is you need to Oh man hold on what happened i pressed the wrong button go ahead and subscribe to the channel because we gonna be bringing that heat frank with the breakdowns him and Roo with the Rockets talk this is one season that you want to be subscribed to the Chop Shop CSGs after uh game reactions live streams me myself will be 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those sessions that we was going through through all the tanking we had to say we all we got man just But yeah man i appreciate y’all for coming through man we gonna get up out of here let’s go there’s no reason to hang your head no reason to second guess guess the Rockets we on our way we on our We prime time now baby we prime time so God bless y’all i’mma be up out of here let’s go Houston Rockets we all we

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