“The Blazers have this idea, that they can be the Houston Rockets of this year. And instead of going out and signing Fred and Dillon Brooks and whatever, they already have Fred and Dillon Brooks in Malcolm Brogdon and Jerami Grant.” – Jake Fischer
by Throwawaybob2225
@Portland Trail Blazers
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So, according to Fischer, we are likely to keep Malcom and JG because we want to model ourselves after the Rockets of this year. What do you guys think about this mindset? Personally i dont love it.
Not sure how I feel about this. Eventually need to free up the logjam at guard, having Scoot Ant Shaedon and Brogdon next season won’t work unless Shaedon plays a lot of 3
Why the fuck would we wanna be the Rockets when we could be the Thunder instead?
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Ah yes, we strive to be…checks standings….below .500 and out of the playin.. at least we aren’t setting unrealistic goals I guess
I think the Rocket’s strategy is much easier to copy. We can’t be the Thunder unless we have a prime Paul George we can trade for an All NBA guard and picks. If bottoming out for longer is the Thunder way we could do that, but it’s hard to come back from that like the Thunder are doing.
Key point for the Rockets is they identified their weaknesses and got Van Fleet and Brooks to shore up the holes in their roster to help everyone else develop. Grant fits that for us. To do it the Rockets way we’d need to find a veteran of positional need, and that is not Brogdon in the point guard role.
Brooks and Van Vleet were great fits for the Rockets and helped them fill in gaps.
Brogdon will not fit in a team that plays Shae, Scoot & Ant serious minutes, so he is the odd man out unless we plan to trade one of the other three (and we shouldn’t).
At this point I care more about accumulating assets and developing the young guys, than reaching to try to be a .450% team on the edge of the play-in next year.
If they were going to be the Rockets of this year they would already be the Rockets of this year. They’re obviously behind that.
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So freaking on brand. If this is the plan we should have just kept Dame and let him run with Ant, Shae, Grant, Scoot and Nurk.
I don’t know why I should take this seriously when pretty much every deal Cronin has pulled came without a whisper of it in the rumor mill before it happened. The only one that comes to mind at all is Gambodoro saying that Ayton/Nurkic was likely to happen.
99% sure its all smoke screen. It’s basically Cronin saying don’t low ball us.
Please please please please please be a smokescreen. Ive believed Cronin wants to swing big instead of just bringing us back to being a mediocre playoff team the last 3 years. Hope I wasn’t wrong
I think Fischer is try to say we want to be the Rockets in the sense that we surround our young core with veterans with good habits rather being strictly youth and playing all rookies/sophomores
Brogdon and Jerami will probably begin to play less and less as the season goes on to prioritize development
If we keep Brogdon I might have to tap out for a while. It’s so incredibly stupid.
Right the 15 seed is really aspiring to be an 11 seed. That’ll change things around
Fischer? I hardly know her!
We already miss being mid!
Huh?? That’s a stretch. Blazers don’t have a Sengun. Also the rockets added Brooks and Fred and a new coach and they turned it around. If the blazers changed coaches they aren’t much better. Rockets have pieces that fit.
I will say the Blazers are trending in the right direction on the defensive end. Offensively they need an alpha
Houston supposedly signed vets to good money because there’s pressure from their ownership on their GM to ensure noticeable improvement in team performance. Very different situation than it seems the Blazers front office is in. Kind of an uninteresting comparison.
“The Blazers have this ideal that they can be the Phoenix Suns of last year. And instead of drafting and developing DeAndre Ayton they already have him via trade from last offseason.”
See how easy it is to just draw simple comparisons that don’t shed much if any light on the situation?
I actually fuck with those 2. Leave them and let them be the veteran presence this team needs
This might be the first time I’m doubting Jake knowing anything, unless he’s helping cronin get more leverage.. it just doesn’t make a ton of sense
Both teams have owners who want to sell tickets without investing the money to actually be contenders. So it makes sense.
This is probably just them trying to spin having no good trade partners for those two. It doesn’t make much sense to me besides that.
Please no
What does this even mean? This is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard lmao. The Rockets made a leap this year mainly because of Udoka and playing through Sengun who’s clearly their best player.
Like yeah sure it’s all fun trying to use comparisons like that, but it makes no sense to me. Also a big part of the reason rockets got better in the 1st place was a lot draft picks last few years. Sengun, Green, Eason, Smith, Whitmore, Thompson are all apart of the rockets rotation currently.
And than there’s the obvious point that the goal shouldn’t be to become the rockets lol.