Houston Rockets Get #3 Pick In NBA Draft! Trade Out Or Draft The Pick? Possible Targets & More
Houston Rockets Get #3 Pick In NBA Draft! Trade Out Or Draft The Pick? Possible Targets & More
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) reacts to and discusses the Houston Rockets receiving the third overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft during the NBA Draft Lottery, what jumping up from 9 to 3 means for Houston, revisiting the James Harden trade with the Brooklyn Nets, whether or not trading or keeping the pick is more likely after moving up, possible win-now trades Houston can make as well as a couple interesting trade-down targets and more.
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28 Comments
Ily jacky
Draft Sarr, Zacharie, or Donavan!! No if ands or buts!!!!!
I've been waiting all day for this podcast
Reed Sheppard is 6’1… can yall please get off that pick at #3 rockets fans lol
COMMENT: What do you want the Rockets to do with the #3 pick?
Clingan is the kaiju that we need to put on Wembanyama. CLING KONG, ALL THE WAY!!!!
I like reed sheppard we need shooting and play making to back up vanvleet contract is up in 2 years
The Rockets should go draft the best-fit, motivated, aggressive player that will add the missing piece for the team that is currently constructed.
What I think they WILL do? Blow the load early, go into win-now mode and hold the team back from reaching NBA Finals for yet another decade. I hope I'm wrong, though.
I don't want the rockets to go for a star we are not ready for a star
couple things…
– I'd love to package no. 3 and brooks (+something else if it's not enough) for Mikal Bridges. Bridges is an elite defender whose D only slipped a little because he was expected to be the team's no. 1 scorer. He's a fantastic shooter, can return to being a 3 behind Sengun and Jalen and focus his efforts more on guarding the other team's best player. However, I doubt Brooklyn makes this deal with the Rox (see below)
– hahahaha at least we had top 4 protections on our picks in the CP3 trade. Looking at Brooklyn now, what a horrendous deal that was. This would have gone back to BKN if they had the protections Houston had.
Trading Down is probably the most likely option if they want to do some trades.
Because if the rockets want to look for a star there not that many stars out there. I dont think Mitchell Ingram or Lauri as much as I like him don’t think they will move the needle.
So yeah I’m with trading down you could trade with Portland because if we do we could possibly draft Reed or get Dalton Kinchet. Also if they don’t trade the 14th pick they can get a big like Ware and they can stash him for a year and he backs up Sengun in 2025.
I also heard that they could trade with the Bulls like Caruso the 11th pick for the third pick that could be a nice trade
If they can’t find the right deal just keep the pick and draft whoever on top of your board.
Either way it’s crazy how we struck gold with the Harden trade. Yeah that trade is pretty much negates the damage of the Russ trade.
The future is bright in H-Town
As far as Donovan clinging he's good on defense 👏 but we do have steven adams and jock landale, I like rèed sheppard a lot and Dalton knecht, Rob Dillingham, Zachariah,
Trade Sengun
Idk but it's a beautiful problem to have
I think were gonna draft Risacher
Get zachary risacher or Nikola Topic and make a run at Isaiah Hartenstein in free agency
Clingan for jokic,wemby,Davis,gobert
This year the 12th pick was worthless to us we literally lost nothing…. We would not have kept it anyway
I have a feeling they will trade the pick + one of the young players to get a 23-30 year old star player who fits Ime's system.
Pick Clingan at 3 or trade down for Sheppard / Dillingham.
I think we're going to Center or PG if we keep the pick
Oh cmon man, I've been waiting for this since yesterday :))
trade down to Detroit for 5th pick to get Clingan
Trade Jock Landale
sign / trade 1-2 cheap shooters
continue building with players drafted earlier (tari,jabari,amen,cam)
priority on high volume shooting.
If they draft we need to get either Matas or Clingan
They should get Dalton. We need a movement three point shooter who can finish strong. Our biggest weakness was a good backup big which we have in Adams, and good shooters. A bench unit of Amen, Cam, Eason, Dalton, and Adams would be nasty!
We have to get best shooter when vanfleet's deal is done
Jackson, I just woke up from my post-Rockets season cat nap and meowdy, we got the 3rd pick! what a wake up call! LFG!!!
#3, Jabari, Dillions for Jared Allen or Jaren Jackson JR. or Zion!
I want us to build through the draft and free agency not doin no star chasing