Dame to Lakers for some players and Picks!!!! We might have to give up Austin Reaves as the center piece and bring in Dame!!

All can cry

Austin Reaver
No Bamba
Dload
Malik beastly
3 2nds

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Dame
Nurk
2024 1st

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Only one player took more and hit less shots than Dillon Brooks last season... Fred VanVleet.

Rockets acquired them both...for $210M 😬

have any of your wild predictions ever came into fruition?

Irony

Dam bad teams with lots of cap space just throwing money around n regret it later. I guess the rockets paying for their veteran presence and “defense” to push other young guys to play harder defense?



Yes I predicted Reaves and Hachimura and DLo all gets resigned for cheap.



Lakers need to pull a pheonix Suns Beal type trade. It’s doable

It's true but the Rockets also had the worst defense in the NBA for a long time now.
Shooting comes and goes. You can always play hard defensively. That's simply effort.

Those two guys can defend. Rockets have a ton of young talent already. Must defend better!
As far as shooting better. They need to stop giving up 140 points! Otherwise it won't matter.

Let's see what the Rockets do this upcoming season with all that young talent. We'll have a better idea after that.

Chris Haynes@ChrisBHaynes
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All-Star guard Dejounte Murray with CEO of @KlutchSports Rich Paul and Atlanta Hawks have reached an agreement on a four-year, $120 million extension, league sources tell @NBAonTNT, @BleacherReport.

Four years and $120M seems just a tad low for a 26-year-old stud? All-star, steals leader, 2nd team All-NBA defense.
Rockets gave Fred VanVleet 3 years and $130M after all. If Murray was a free agent I'd have given the bag for him!

Literally have no idea what they are doing.

The Houston Rockets are loaded for a dominant team from 2025 to 2035. They're loaded with incredible young talent all up and down their roster. Jalen Green, Jabari Smith Jr., Alperen Sengun, Amen Thompson, Cam Whitmore and Tari Eason just to name a few... Now with a head coach in Ime Udoka who knows how to get the most out of young players.

All they needed was a couple decent veterans to help them learn how to win more games and make a playoff push at some point in the next few years. If nothing else Fred Van Vleet is an NBA champion and all-star. Dillon Brooks is an all NBA defender. At worse they'll become much better defensively.

Even if the Van Vleet and Brooks contracts don't pan out. Oh well. It was worth the try. The team will still have all that young talent developing, and hopefully hitting their peak, when both of those contracts come to an end. It's not like the Rockets can't afford those contracts of 3 and 4 years respectively.

People are acting like they didn't have the cap space to splurge this off-season. It was worth the gamble. Sure, I wish there was more talent available in free agency this summer. Next summer was supposed to be loaded in free agency but a lot of those guys are getting re-signed by their current teams.

This post was edited by MADmartigan on Jul 6 2023 06:42pm