Houston Rockets Trade BACK Targets In 2024 NBA Draft: Kel’el Ware, Cody Williams & Dalton Connect

Houston Rockets Trade BACK Targets In 2024 NBA Draft: Kel’el Ware, Cody Williams & Dalton Connect

on today’s show three possible trade down targets for the Houston Rockets in the 2024 NBA draft kle wear Cody Williams and Dalton connect which player would be the best Target to see the Houston Rockets trade down for it’s all coming up on today’s locked on Rockets this is Mission Control Houston ignition sequence starts 6 5 4 3 2 1 what’s up and welcome to another edition of lock on Rockets your daily podcast home for everything Houston Rockets basketball as always I’m your host Jackson Gatlin native houstonian and credential media member I’m also the host of locked on NBA Mondays be sure to follow along wherever you listen to your podcast or on YouTube just search locked on Rockets be sure to like comment and subscribe just go comment go rockets on the YouTube video it helps us out a ton now today’s episode is brought to you by prize picks the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports go to prize.com lockon NBA and use code all lowercase locked on NBA for a first deposit match up to $100 and as always thank you so much for making lockdown Rockets part of your day every single day whether it’s on your way to work on your lunch break in the gym thank you for being an every dayer and joining us now is your weekly co-host NBA draft Enthusiast and diard Houston Rockets fan Madison Moore you can track down on Twitter at madman leaks here because we they’re they’re so it feels like little draft information coming out of the Rockets Camp as to what they’re ultimately going to wind up doing with this number three overall pick we’ve heard rumors that they’re content to stay at number three and just draft somebody there we’ve heard that they’re trying to trade out of the draft completely we’ve also heard that they’re willing to trade down with certain teams like potentially the Portland Trailblazers or the Memphis Grizzlies so in today’s episode we’re going to explore three possible trade down candidates for the Houston Rockets to consider if they are able to find a potential trade partner again we’ve done hypotheticals here on the show about with the Blazers or with the Chicago Bulls or more recently the Memphis Grizzlies as potential teams that the Rockets could trade back in this year’s draft with to recoup either a win now player or a future asset while also still being able to draft another young enticing Prospect so we’ve got three names teed up for you here today to discuss and the first name is maybe my favorite name on the list Madison and he’s kind of one of those uh names that’s circulating around I feel like draft Twitter there’s a lot of guys that are really high on this guy and that is actually CLE wear uh coming out of uh Indiana a guy that has a lot of the same kind of upside cealing potential as some as as a guy like Alex SAR at the top of this draft right kind of a versatile big man the modernday NBA big man just some real questions about his motor his drive his desire some of those intangible questions that have maybe you know hurt his draft stock here a little bit as we approach the NBA draft yeah man kware I think is an excellent Prospect and like you said there are some questions and I believe he’s become a fan favorite in draft circles because of the upside he’s flashed not many players in not just in this draft but in you know many drafts have the measurables disguiser se you know seven foot plus uh uh center with uh with a 74 and a half wingspan this guy’s rangy he can make a lot of plays defensively and offensively because of it and his offensive flashes are just off the roof right and I think that really what makes him um a very flashy Prospect you can see he you can see a lot of upside in the way he finishes plays whether it be out of the dunker spot as a live threat and not only that is he stretches the floor he shot 42% from three last year all albeit on low attempts but you can see a real future as a modernday five in this league with KH Weare but like like you were alluding to there’s a real big question mark about his motor which really came out of the Oregon Camp right so the the coach at Oregon where he spent his freshman year of college before he moved to Indiana really you know in press conferences spoke poorly about gware and you know you have those situations and that happens to certain players and now he got to Indiana and those kind of reports cooled a lot um but still on film although I think he had really good effort at times you can see times where I don’t know if it was an effort thing but maybe it was a processing thing maybe it was just him trying to understand what’s going on in the game and not getting back into the play and not playing with enough physicality at times defensively a guy with that measurables with his athletic profile you expect him to to make some just crazy highlight plays right that’s why you want to draft him and there just wasn’t enough of those type of plays on film although the stats looked really good the stats do look really you did mention the three-point shooting so you shot 42 1.2% from Deep only on 1.3 attempts per game though so not large volume there so maybe you take that with a little bit of a grain of salt average just under 16 points per contest just under 10 rebounds per game so basically you know 16 and 10 is the easiest way to look at it two blocks per game two or 1.9 again ju just under on all these stats but right there where you know you’re talking about a guy that just averaged 16 10 and two 42 and a half% from three like these are some insane numbers I think it is kind of crazy that the downsides are kind of the knock on his effort his you know whatever his motor has him all the way back to where you see some locks where he’s all the way down you know in the 20s which is kind of crazy for a guy with this much upside talent and if the Rockets were to kind of trade down right and get a you know a win now asset or a future piece whatever this is exactly the type of swing that I would like to see them take where hey okay maybe we doesn’t pan out fine but think about if he could pan out right if you pick him up late in the lottery or somewhere later on in the first round this is the kind of guy that could be kind of that that big home run swing where it doesn’t hurt you if it doesn’t pan out but man if he does pan out it would help the rockets in a big way and I think we talked about this the last one we brought up wear is if there’s one guy that I would trust to be able to iron out this whole like motor issue or effort intensity issue it’s Oka right like if Oka can make Rob Williams Time Lord right the guy that was over sleeping and running late for for Celtics practices and stuff if he can get him you know whipped into shape and and you know showing up on time and giving that top-notch level effort becoming all all NBA Defensive caliber piece to that Celtics team that made a finals run a couple years ago then I would love to see what he could do with we now I know you’ve got some comps teed up for us Madison hit us with uh what you got as far as how you see kle we kind of panning out okay I got a couple uh quick comps with low median and high first we’ll start with the low and so that’s if those you know those IQ or I don’t want to say IQ but those processing issues don’t really come through all the way um we’re looking at and the the rest of the skills the shooting doesn’t translate in the real way but he still has that that size and uh you know those those tools then we’re looking at somebody like javel McGee I think that’s a really good low-end uh outcome for him I think that is what people are afraid of when they see the tools but they’re not translating in all the ways that you would hope right I’d be scared taking you know if you told me oh you’re getting J me a number three overall that’s a little bit scary but if you’re trading back and if you’re getting other value for you know doing that trade like we have the Memphis Grizzlies hyp pathetical in here where they could pick up either Marcus Smart or potentially even a Luke Canard as well as a future like top four protected first you know first overall pick sign me up if if all they get is jav McGee I think that’s still a really solid get even if it’s you know in the middle of the of the lottery yeah no and and I think for a low-end cop like jvel McGee played a long time in this league I think that’s actually a very serviceable player is as your low-end cop and so for when we move to median though uh a lot of he’s drawn a lot of these comparisons um and that is the Christian Wood comparison which I do see hints of that on his film although I think he’s better than Christian Wood I think he’s he has more and when I say hints of that Christian Wood to me plays with a lot of physicality on offense he bumps guys off his spots he puts his shoulder into guys and he scores over the top with nice touch and finishing I think um you see the same type of stuff in KH W’s game that he he plays with a lot of physicality he’s not he’s not afraid to bump guys and go through their and and finish with finesse over the top but then when it flips other way defensively when he went against some of the biggest you know stars like Donovan clean and uh and Zach Edy you can see at times he really struggled with the physicality of those bit those bigs he often was out of position not guarding with his chest and really just outmatched in areas and you didn’t see that physicality shine through in the same ways that you saw it Shine through on offense on the defensive end and so those are the type of things for like you said em udoka coming in and identifying those things and really challenging him I think the coaching step is going to be very important for his development and his ultimate success okay and lastly I think his high-end outcome would be a guy like Ralph Samson a guy who’s who’s long can defend who can shoot it a bit who can kind of do all a little bit of everything on the floor and will be an excellent compliment next to a Chingo yeah that’s that’s kind of I think the most intriguing thing about a guy like koware or get Alex star if he somehow drops to the Houston Rockets at number three overall he’s just thinking in a vacuum of man how how would you be able to pair this guy with the guys that you have currently on the roster and adding you know a 611 7 foot Big Man four five tweener who can play both positions and and can and the thing with KH W is his shooting is is a lot less theoretical than Alex sar’s right SAR did not shoot the ball well KH W did shoot the ball well but on low volume but either way you imagine putting either of those two guys next to Alper and shingon you get really excited about the different things that you could achieve and and kind of again masking some of those areas where maybe there are some shortcomings for shingun defensively um you know not saying he’s a bad Defender again he shored up a lot of those concerns this past season but just making sure that you can have a good cohesive team defensive concept around him around a guy who is a bit of an undersized Center that’s just a you know an unfortunate truth that we have to face if Alper and shingun is the long-term Center of this Houston Rockets team but coming up we got to get into a couple more names here that we want to talk about we’ve got Dalton connect as well as Cody Williams we’re going to get there in just one moment first today’s episode is brought to you by prize picks prize picks is America’s number one fantasy sports app with more than 5 million members it’s the most fun and exciting way to get in on the action where you watch your favorite sports and players you just pick more or less on two or more player stats for a shot to win up to 100 times your cash with prize picks you could turn $10 into ,000 in a single game watching your favorite sports this summer you can make a prize pick lineup in as little as 60 seconds 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point in his favor of potentially the Rockets trading down and drafting this kid is that if he is even anywhere near the player that his brother is then that would be a huge outcome for him as an NBA as an NBA player I should say yeah man uh Cody Williams I think you have to know he’s his brother came out in his what junior year so he’s he’s coming out early that right so if you just look at you know where they are in their careers uh you know as freshman he’s a lot ahead of his brother but nonetheless you you always uh love that you have older brother who’s a star in the league who can teach you kind of the ins and outs and he’s talked about that on Kevin OC Conor’s interview with him but Cody Williams is a very interesting Prospect for the Rockets another long rangy Wing this guy’s a 6 fo8 6’7 6’8 guy with a 7 foot one Wings span which is tremendous this is these big rangy wings that the league is looking for today lengthy lengthy can play the passing Lanes Can Can it can drape over a Defender all those kinds of things that you want gets blocks man like you know principles of verticality you know all those things he’ll be able to do long term now he’s he is a bit on the skinnier side he really has to fit uh fill out his frame and that’s why I think he won’t translate uh immediately but this is one of the guys with some of the one of the higher upsides in the draft um he is an excellent slasher I really like the way he uh he gets in and out of his moves he finishes with a variety Mo a step throughs uh Euro steps he he shields uh he Shields the ball well with his counters and Spins and he finishes with touch man he has an in between game with with the midi floater he even will put you in the post and throw out a a um a jump hook with like some real touch on it but but it’s kind of by necessity so it’s like a double-edged sword right he’s got the touch he’s got the finishing ability around there but he’s not really like an Above the Rim athlete he’s not a guy that’s going to go up and punch it is the thing yeah I mean he has some he he has some highlight Ducks but the athleticism I don’t think is one of his his biggest Feats but it’s okay it’s okay because the because he finishes on the margins with that length with that incredible length and he moves very well well and gets to his spots and finish with a lot of craft and change of pace and Miss Direction so I think he’s going to be just fine he’s not going to be the type of guy who you you’ll see dunking on people every day but I do think he has the potential to be a force getting downhill just like he was at that Colorado offense because one of his weakness is he doesn’t really create a lot of jump shots he was that was his biggest weakness his creation getting to the basket was was excellent um but his creation as a jump shooter um was nonexistent didn’t take a lot of those jump shots even though when he got to them they were they were decent they were fine they looked good but he didn’t make them at a high enough clip and that goes into why I think his three point uh attempts was so low he only took catch and shoot threes and so that that is the area of this game he really has to grow if you want to hit his highend outcomes as a shot Creator uh as a part of his package 41 a. half% from three-point land but again only on 1.7 attempts per game so not great there he averaged just under 12 points per contest three boards about you know an assist and a half per game um as far as your comps for him I’m going to be very curious if his brother is actually in your compx give us the spoiler now is he there or no he is not in his in the compx he I think he I think he wins he went they have some similarities in the way that they drive and I hear that they athletically tested similar at the combine but I don’t think they play too similar at the moment but you can see in some of the drives he’s taken some of the craft out of Jaylen Williams’s game but let’s go ahead and get into these outcomes I think his low end is a guy like Tony snail um another long rangey Wing that can kind of do a little bit of everything and plays a specific role a rotation player Off the Bench and so that is a player that you know plays in this league but doesn’t anything never gives you anything like not going to be part of your seven eight best guys of a playoff rotation if he is you’re probably in trouble um you know kind of an Innings eater for the regular season if you will right a good ninth or 10th Man Off the Bench exactly uh but I I don’t think that’s a likely outcome for him okay but let’s get into his median outcome and I think these are like always the most likely outcomes and I’d say thaddus young I think thaddus Young is a really good outcome I think that is Young is much stronger than him but I do if you look at his brother’s genetics he he should be able to fill out very well you know in the coming he’s gonna have to fill out a lot to be like Thad young though because th young is he was skinny though when he came out right I guess I’m thinking like older that young because older built now he playing like the he’s a three four he’s a four now like that young is a true four like with the big bodies okay right right right but PR that young was a wing okay so so that’s so that’s that’s where I’m kind of getting from and I think he can fill out in those ways but he is really thin but he plays with physicality like that I think he goes he he takes it um uh through guys chest and finishes finishes through them and he and that shooting is still a question mark just like that young but there’s a lot of things you can do with his game with the defensive versatility with the length you know those are the ways I think if they hitting the really Highway they can make up for the lack of shooting if he never really brings that shooting around at a real clip but he probably to be a better uh catch and shoot shooter as well so uh but yeah so that is around his median his highend I got a couple high-ends so the first highend is Jaden McDaniels I think that is what the league sees as his upside for Cody Williams um I think it is a really good upside I think they have similar uh body types and archetypes um and once he FS out I think it probably will be closer to Jaden McDaniels and I think he’ll be able to guard up and down the lineup in a very real way and really will be able to get after on guys um and will also add the three-point shot and be able to attack off the dribble attack Closeouts in a real way so I think Jen McDaniels is like the pie the sky thing that the that that that you know guys who looking to take him high in the draft think that he can be um and if he really starts to add some more elements to his game and shot creation um uh he already has the creation I think as a slasher but if he starts to add the mid-range the shooting off the dribble in a real away I think I think there’s a lot of Brandon Ingram there I think it’s a lot of Brandon Ingram there and if that is like a high-end outcome that is a lottery pick man that’s a guy that’s worthy of being taken in the top five in this draft and what you probably can get you know in the back half of the the lottery so I think that’s a really good guy to take a a good bet on are you are you higher on his offensive potential or his defensive potential defense is always about effort and role to me so it’s so to to me I think if he never hits his higher offensive potentials then he Focus all his energy on defense and he has the tools in the wherewithal to do that so I think he can really get there but the offense is like a bigger question mark kind of the offense is right right the offense is a bigger question mark but it’s well within the outcomes for him like he has enough there where you can build off of those games but it’s going to take a lot of development a lot of strength training these guys are a lot further behind okay I’ll tell you what these lengthy Wings though I mean you can never have in today’s NBA and that’s another guy that would fit perfectly into an Oka defensive system where guys are switching constantly one through four and then we’ve even seen you know when the Rockets aren’t running Alper and shingon out there right they like to switch one through five they like they like players that are multifaceted that’s a word that they’ve used a lot in the front office and with the coaching staff they let guys who could do multiple things whether that’s defensively guarding multiple positions offensively being capable of doing multiple things right being a knockdown spot up three-point shooter or being a guy that can attack off the catch or be a SL be an off ball threat and it sounds like sounds like Cody Williams has a chance to be able to do a lot of those things on both sides of the ball incredibly well so that could be a really sneaky like emoa pick if the Rockets do trade back into the lower end of the lottery but we’ve got one more name coming up for you guys Dalton connect the Sharpshooter out of Tennessee we’re going to get there in just one moment first today’s episode is brought to you by LinkedIn when you’re hiring for your small business you want to find quality professionals are right for the role that’s why you have to check out LinkedIn jobs LinkedIn job has the tools to help you find the right Professionals for your team faster and for free because LinkedIn isn’t just another job board LinkedIn has a vast network of more than a billion professionals which makes it the best place to hire it gives you access to professionals that you can’t find anywhere else LinkedIn does all of that while making the process easy and intuitive because LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or the resources for hiring LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier they even just launched a feature that helps you actually write job descriptions so post your job for free at linkedin.com lockon MBA that’s linkedin.com lockon NBA to post your job for free terms and conditions apply and final segment here at locked on Rockets your daily podcast home for everything Houston Rockets basketball we’re up to our final of three potential trade down prospects for the Houston Rockets and we saved potentially The Best For Last when you talk about just sheer talent but also fit and what this Houston Rockets team desperately needs and Madison what’s the one thing we’ve been talking about this team needs more than anything else this off season shooting shooting indeed and I’ll tell you what Dalton connect out of Tennessee can absolutely shoot the lights out of the ball look there’s been a lot of hype about Reed Shepard and his ability to shoot the ball but you know maybe some concerns about the volume with Reed Shepard and some of the the shot profile the diet tell you what you can erase any and all of those concerns when it comes to dton connect cuz this guy can shoot it from anywhere on the floor he shoots on volume shot just under 40% from three on six and a half attempts per game there is no question about sample size or volume or anything when it comes to Doon connect this guy can shoot from a standstill he can shoot off movement he can come off dhos screens this dude is an allaround bucket he is your like de facto prototypical you tier one movement shooter and that would be a pretty big addition to this Houston Rockets team yeah man he is an excellent three-point shooter and I think he has a case to be the best shooter in this draft like he really has a case by the sheer volume in the different ways that Dalton actually got to his shots right he he gets them in a variety way you just talked about all the movement shooting but he shot him off off the dribble as well like Dalton and and so you know when we compare that to like re R uh created a lot he had a different way a lot of different ways but he did he wasn’t showcased in the same way that Dalton was and all the attention was on dalon connect at that Tennessee team everybody knew he was shoot shooting that ball and Dalton was getting it off and producing at a high clip he averaged I believe 21.7 points a game I mean this guy is lighting it up it might it might be a disservice to just be referring to him as like a shooter a marksman whatever this D is just a score he can score the ball that’s the difference is he’s not just your he he’s not Garrison Matthews right he’s not just a guy who’s going to come curling off screens and let it rip that’s obviously that’s part of his bag that’s part of his skill set but he can put the ball on the floor he can generate his own shot he can get it get it going from anywhere on the floor and when he gets it go this dude can get scorching hot in a hurry exactly and like you said shooting is not the only strength of his offensive game this guy can really create off the dribble he has a nice mid-range package to that he can uh leverage off his incredible shooting and he also is sneaky athletic he has a lot of dunks on the year highlight real Ducks he finishes at The Rim he gets to all the way to the basket when he needs to he’s he has a big strong body big MBA ready bodies at 6 fo7 this guy is a huge shooting wing and he’s doing at a high clip and the real the really the biggest knock against D is his age like those are the things that really coming off uh coming and knocking down his upside and that’s why this guy isn’t a consistent number one pick because I I promise you if this guy was 19 he was a a freshman or a sophomore he’d probably be the consistent number one pick and everybody be talking about him with Superstar upside but because he’s a older player play play uh he’s viewed with less upside but I think he’s ready to come contribute right away and also he’s not the greatest defensive player in the world but he’s a serviceable defensive player he I think he will be able to hold up just fine he won’t be a guy that that teams are going to be targeting you know what I mean so you add that with his incredible offensive package and you’re really looking at you’re really like cooking with fire with this type of guy and I think he’s one of the most underrated and under talked about prospects in this draft and he really should be talked about more in the top five and he’ll probably go on the back back end of of uh this Lottery just because teams are looking for more upside and they’re going to go with less proven players with more trajectory of of you know becoming those star prospects you know it’s so funny to me because I I do think that the Rockets are in this position where you know couple years ago yeah I would have been a little averse to the idea of taking an older rookie quote unquote because I do think there is something to to the argument or the belief of okay well he is a little bit older you know is he you know already who he is as an NBA player right does he have much more of a ceiling left to attain or you know how does this how does his skill set convey to the NBA I I I don’t necessarily worry about that knock on him for the Rockets because the Rockets are already in a position where they want to start playing winning basketball right what’s the best way to do that you could you’ve seen teams in the past who draft older rookies right guys who come in as as Juniors or seniors or sorry they were Juniors or seniors in college you draft them those guys are much more polished NBA ready pieces NBA ready players than the young you know freshman sophomore that you’re taking a chance on cuz right Dalton’s already grown into his grown man body like he’s in his grown man body he’s ready for NBA basketball he’s a really polished player already there’s much less developmental work that I think the Rockets would have to do with Dalton where of anybody that the Rockets could conceivably draft in this year’s draft I think he has the chance of more than anybody else quite possibly to step in day one potentially and I’m not saying he’d crack the rotation or anything but like you could throw him out there for a few minutes a night whatever he’s not going to kill you right he knows what he knows he knows how to be a serviceable Defender offensively he would know his role at the NBA level likely not doing a lot of the stuff that you’re seen him do at Tennessee as far as his own shot creation and stuff but being used as a shooter to space the floor to open things up for other guys on the roster like Jaylen green or alperin shenon I do think from that perspective like it makes a ton of sense for the Rockets if they did trade back Dalton connect would probably be my pick for this team to make yeah man I I I mean he fits an immediate need and it it’s a lights out shooter a guy that is serviceable and we just seen uh we just seen a lights out shooter get off in the playoffs and play a pretty significant role in winning game three in Sam Hower which is one of his low-end outcomes for me I think Sam Hower is the Baseline for dalon conect that’s just you know you’re you know you’re going to get serviceable meaningful shoot uh shooting out of this guy he’s gonna move into space well he’s going to be a serviceable Defender and when you need this the floor to be space and you need a bit more of a a shooting punch you can depend on Dalton and I think he has the Poise and all the things that he he’s been through I think this guy’s going to have ice in his veins I think you’re going to be able to trust him to make shots at all times and and there’s no but I want to get to the your median and and high tier outcomes for or top end outcomes for Dalton as well but it’s so it’s really important to consider here from a roster building perspective there is no better value in the NBA landscape than getting a club controlled first round Draft pick on your roster for four years right so if the Rockets did take Dalton connect as an as a very close to kind of finished product not quite finished but like very close to probably what he’s going to be as an NBA player you get that on team control for 4 years when you’ve got extensions right around the corner potentially for Jaylen green and Alper and shenon then next summer you got to figure out the future for Jabari and tari and then not long after that you’re going to have to figure out a Min Thompson cam Whitmore like having a guy that you can guarantee is going to be a really good you know ninth or tenth man at a minimum in your rotation but also somebody who’s capable of playing some of those you know select bench minutes or whatever in the playoffs or just a a situational piece that you can have on the floor to space things out to be knockdown shooter like that sounds like a really great pickup especially when you have to consider the financial ramifications of what this of the decisions this team is going to be faced with sooner rather than later with a lot of the contracts for these other young guys that they already have on the roster I totally agree I mean there’s a lot of ways you can move um use movement Shooters to create this pseudo gravity and and offer these just wrinkles to your offense and I think he’ll be able to do that day one year one year two out of the league all right what you got for us for the other comps for the median and for the high comps yeah so median I’ll go real quick so the median I have Kyle corver and Max stru all right movement shooters that are that were featured on playoff teams uh I like Max stru a lot similar size can shoot it can get hot in a in a hurry and it’s not the best defender in the world but it’s a serviceable one he you know he can play playoff minutes and if he’s hot he’s his his hot shooting well out ways and that’s what I kind of Envision for dton not the best uh defender in the world but serviceable like you know what I mean you can live with him on the floor he’s you know without getting hunted all right and last wait wait are are we going are we going three for three on white boys here four for four five for five all of these people are white wow oh my God he did it he did it the moment he the moment you said sneaky athletic when you talking about talking about D I was like oh we’re getting all the white boy Sharpshooters it’s going down all right for highend outcomes who are the highend white boy shooter outcomes yes buan bonovich okay yes I’m sorry guys he he’s European he don’t count he’s a different kind of white anyways all right hopefully but yeah but honestly these people they play just like him but boan bonovich is so I I I added boan because what if he’s more than just the the three-point shooter what if he adds the ball handling the playmaking you know what what if he becomes like a real fix of your offense as a tertiary Creator like buan has in his in the prime of his career that’s what I really think uh Dalton can really be for a team like this guy that’s not only this movement shooter but you can you can give it to him in offensive possessions and really initiate the offense and make plays for other guys while also leveraging the three-point shooting a guy that maybe you never want as your like number one option like true blue number one but a guy that can run run your bench minutes for you right or you know your star goes to sit down cool you’re going to get some boy on by donov and you’re fine with that because he’s more than capable of running an offense for for stretches of a game yes exactly all right but so this is about game because I know the fifth guy is also white so just be I like you’re to put the disclaimers in now I you you hit me with the first you hit me with Sam Hower I was gonna let you live I was gonna let you live with Sam Hower and then you hit me with Kyle corver and Max Tru and I was like no way man no way all right man these guys are similar this just is what it is okay and the last guy Dom nominator behind Theo besides the shooting all right continue the last guy is Tyler herro I think Tyler herro is a really good outcome for him I think the way Tyler hero handles dble handoffs he offers more than just shooting right and he and he’s also a starter in this league right so that so these are these higher end outcomes he offers more than than shooting and he can get hot and give you 25 30 30 in a spot game but also he can come off those dribble handoffs and make plays he he gets to his mid-range the off finishes with floaters in the lane so Dalton can do a lot of that stuff he has some bounce in his game man he has he’s more than just a movement shooter and he has these other areas that he’s able to leverage his shooting off of to create other baskets around the it’s funny too when you say Tyler Harrow it almost makes me think that I love that comp not but not in a positive way because it’s almost like Tyler herrow does have a ceiling right like that like the fact that like Tyler Harrow would arguably best be served and was best served when he was in you know coming off the bench in Miami right that like that felt like a better role for him whereas then you put him in the starting lineup and it’s like is his offense outweighing maybe some of his limitations defensively like do do you want to put the ball in his hands and let him kind of run the show the way that he has for a couple years in Miami or are you better served going a different route so I do think like maybe that’s one of the the drawbacks right the concerns is you know how good does he become can you keep him in that role where he’s just you know that that bench guy or does he ever Excel enough to where you’re like okay him as a starter it’s cool it works defensively we’re all cool with everything does on that side of the floor offensively he is who he is yeah I I like the Tyler hero comp but not necessarily in a good way um but on that note I we’re curious who would you be most interested in if the Rockets do trade down further down to the lottery or potentially even further back than that in this year’s NBA draft which of these three prospects interests you the most is there a prospect we didn’t talk about that you either a want to hear about or B that you’d be more interested in than the three names that we hit on today’s episode let us know in those YouTube comments Madison let everybody know where to track you down yeah you can find me on Twitter at madman leaks come talk Rockets basketball and NBA draft that’s going to do it for another edition of locked on Rockets as always thank you so much for checking out the show if you haven’t done so yet please consider subscribing wherever you listen to your podcast or on YouTube just search locked on Rockets be sure to like comment and subscribe and if you’re listening on Apple podcast a five star review helps us out a ton but as always thank you so much for watching thank you so much for listening we look forward to having you back right here 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Houston Rockets Trade BACK Targets In 2024 NBA Draft: Kel’el Ware, Cody Williams & Dalton Connect

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