Do the Houston Rockets Have ENOUGH Talent to Compete in the WEST?!

Do the Houston Rockets Have ENOUGH Talent to Compete in the WEST?!

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but watching these playoffs um it becomes very apparent why teams are searching for stars because that is what it takes you know you look at the two teams in the finals you obviously you have Luca and Kyrie surrounded by a bunch of great role players you have Boston with Tatum and brown surround surrounded by very elite role players and even in the previous rounds you’re looking at the talent of the teams that made it that far usually there’s a guy on there that is the engine for that team um if not multiple guys and um for the Houston Rockets I think this is relevant to uh to what they’re trying to do I’ve seen a lot of news stories and tweets and um articles come out about the Rockets expressing to the general NBA that they want to trade the third pick they want to trade the third pick you guys know where I stand on some of these prospects I think overall this draft is it’s a decent draft and obviously when you look back probably five years from now you’re going to see that there are guys in this draft that actually turned into probably possibly Allstars maybe some guys are going to be all NBA but that’s what every draft in fact I was going through drafts talking to my boy Daniel uh this morning and we were just talking about you know what the different drafts were and who players came out really we were talking about how the Kings and the Suns uh fumbled uh both Luca and Trey young in that draft but it came because of Luca and you start seeing through these drafts the hit rate for a the really good players the ones that I’m talking about that are going to be transformative to your team roughly about 20 30% which is not bad right in the top 10 if you’re looking at just the top 10 alone about two guys out of the top 10 turn into center pieces for your franchise some years it might be one some years just three but the further back you get into the draft you start seeing these gems that pop out of not only guys that are just Superstars but also good role players um you go to the back the Tyrese Maxes of the world The Desmond Baines of the world um some of these guys that are drafted later SGA was drafted out of the top 10 uh um and Jaylen Brunson in the same draft as Luca going in the second round uh so there’s just all these players and to me if you can once again the reason I’m I’m okay with trading the pick is because um if you get a later pick guess what go draft do your scouting do what you got to do to get a player but on the side of the Rockets competition the West is crazy y’all like it it is really really crazy to think about how good the West is compared to the other conference we have obviously Dallas is going to be there Luca was only 25 years old already a five-time All Pro um going to the NBA finals he’s not going anywhere after this finals appearance right there was a lot of rumors about Luca possibly leaving the Mavs that’s dead right now this run that they had probably buys him another three four years at least a full contract um San Antonio another Texas team they got wenyama uh I think he’s going to get progressively better and the teams around him are going to get progressively better and I think that the the Spurs can probably feel the playoff roster as early as maybe a season or two if they wanted to just because wemy is that impactful some people had him winning the defensive player of the year not me not me I think uh if you’re going to win an award at least be let your team be good at what you’re supposed to be impacting like you can’t be the defense player of the year and one of the worst defenses that’s kind of stupid it kind of cheapens the award so I’m not mad Rudy got it um but W’s there right another baby in the west that’s going to be here for the next 10 years Oklahoma City we haven’t even left our region yet like we’re still in the Texas Oklahoma and then you got you know Zion you know what I mean so that’s another player you got joic is still relatively young um in the league and he’s going to be here and have something to say about it for some time to to come Memphis with johnar they’re young relatively in the league he’s going to be here to say something about it fox in Sacramento you know I don’t know how long he’s going to be in Sacramento he’s not old you know he’s getting on the elderly side as far as in the NBA but he’s still a young uh player relatively in the league um Phoenix I don’t know what uh amalgamation of Team they’re going to put together but I’m not going to count them out because they just have too much talent um so there’s all these teams that are out here in our conference that we have to compete with obviously the team that we just watch go to the Conference Finals with Anthony Edwards right a 22y old shooting guard who’s leading a team at that age to the Conference Finals they’re the wolves are going to be there um so I’m saying all that to say like the Rockets have their word cut out like we’re we are behind the eightball and one thing that people need to be able to grasp as we’re uh discussing all of these like future bills for the Rockets what they need to do now um patience and all that I still think patience largely is the best bet for them to be able to um gain what they want out of uh what they’ve been tanking for all these years right which is to try to get a corner piece I think patience gives you the highest chance to do that because you have so many opportunities with the young core that we have with the six players um but uh they are a bit behind abar we have to keep in context that the league is not static what I mean by that is W isn’t waiting for the Rockets to be patient and figure it out right the the Anthony Edwards isn’t going to wait for whoever the rocket star player is to catch up to him the Oklahoma City is not waiting every team is going to improve internal development is going to happen in every franchise for especially for these really young players that are really good and what that means is that even if our guys get better other young guys are gonna get better so if there are guys like Anthony Edwards is already ahead of Jaylen green if Jaylen green takes a massive leap to get to a certain point and already pass that point right so those are the his counterparts he’s going to have to battle to be on that conference final stage and so when you start thinking about all this you see that even the patient approach is not a guarantee of success and for the Rockets to me this is why I feel like it’s prudent for them to try to get their hands on players you cannot you can’t always say there’s going to be a player available because you never know now I’m I’m not um you know the one to like let’s try to break up the young core but I’ve moved to the point where I’m not opposed to it depending on what the player is and what the deal is personally this summer I wouldn’t do it uh right now I wouldn’t do it right now just for this summer I would give up picks I would give up picks I would give up a lot of picks to try to get uh Mel Bridges right I’m not a big fan of the Donovan Mitchell uh uh trades I’m not I I just don’t think Donovan fits on our team um that way I I just don’t know I think the ceiling on a Donovan Mitchell team is very low um but if the Rockets were interested in getting Donovan Mitchell as a stepping stool to putting together a more competitive team with another player and and maybe a few of our young players uh then yeah I could see that happening the point of all this is that I am totally open to whatever the Rockets want to do because when you look at the context of the league right now nobody’s slowing down for us nobody’s going to slow down for the Rockets nobody’s gonna slow down and and as a as a franchise to have your hopes and a bunch of young guys I I get it I get it Stone I get it eay so so I’m not going to hold them for trying to trade that pick now ideally you guys know my scenario that I want um I want them to trade back uh uh and just draft somebody that’s going to help fit a need right now and use some of their cap flexibility that they have this summer and just get some Elite role players to give us one more go at this season and see whether we can get lucky and strike um with one of our players the only player on this this roster that is on trajectory to being one of those players is Alon shenon he’s the only player on this roster and his trajectory as good as it is it’s not even Elite it’s still like okay he’s an interesting Prospect to become a star but once again going through that draft with my boy Daniel we’re looking at players that have been drafted the anony uh Edwards of the world the Lucas of the world the Trey Young’s that’s who we’re comparing our players to right and we know the circumstances of um you know Cod Silas they were tanking blah blah blah blah blah that’s all good and well but that doesn’t impact the outcome of what actually happens in real life those are the reasons why we’re in the situation we’re in but at the end of the day when I look at Jaylen green and I see a number two pick I’m comparing him to other number two picks right and if you look at in the past maybe six or seven years of guys that were top picks like I said the hit rate is about 20 20 30% the ones that hit to become a top worthy of a number two pick they go to the route of I’m taking my team to the playoffs fairly early right they’re doing it early they’re doing it um at a high level they’re all stars all NBA players fairly early the other route is role player or bust right and right now on the trajectory Jaylen is on the role player or bus trajectory if we keeping it a bean a thousand we keeping it a 100 right now we have a lot of hope that because of circumstances of what the Rockets subjected him to uh with Steven Silas with the lack of Veteran structure with the different players going in and out the lack of all the stuff the context that we understand we hope that that talent that was there is going to be able to burst out in this coming year another year under email DOA some of the flashes we saw towards the end of the year but in reality the chances are if we’re doing this as a betting I’m betting that he’s not going to be a Luca donic as a number two pick right I’m bet I’m putting money if I had to put money I would assume that Jaylen turns into a good NBA player that’s a good player in the league but the Superstar Arch is very specific go look at ant go look at any of these even the borderline guys that you want to call a star the Trey Youngs the Halbert like it pops off the chart by this time that is why I think this year is going to be so definitive for what the rockets need to do going forward that it’s it’s it’s like when it happens it’s going to happen like when it happens like after the season’s over you will know exactly what you need to do now once again I am okay with going into this season standing Pat get some vets try to make the playoffs in fact we have to make the playoffs in my opinion right but for the long-term uh outlook for this team to compete in this Western Conference it’s going to be more than just being patient they actually have to be active in recruiting players to the franchise that are ready to compete for championships or else we’re just is going to be one of those teams that were shut out during a period where a lot of great players emerged I don’t think that’s the case I personally think that jaylen’s gonna have a leap I think a lot of people are hating on Jabari right now on Twitter I think jabari’s gonna have a great year I personally think if Al shanon is healthy he’s gonna be a third Team all NBA I I I just think that because to me the only thing missing from his game um was wins and I think slight efficiency Improvement he should be that right he should be there that now there is a lot of questions about all of our players about how they’re going to perform in the playoffs I think those questions apply to every single one of them including Alp and if I you know I may do a video ranking what what I think they’re going to struggle and be successful in the playoffs but just for right now I think that you have enough Intrigue you have enough context with the stuff I’ve talked about you have enough um kind of things going on and going wrong to say that you need to see this one more year but I get what the Rockets are doing I understand it I get it I get it and if they were to pull off a trade to go get a big player to get a player that maybe cost us one of the prospects or two of the prospects that we have on our Squad of the of the core six I understand it because when you switch over to trying to compete for championships the roster is probably going to get flipped over a lot and that’s just how the NBA goes so we’re going to see the draft is a few weeks away I’m curious to see what they actually do I feel like the buzz and the rumors is going to turn up as we get closer to that day um but you guys let me know in the chat let me know in the chat what are your thoughts on the Rockets plans to compete in the Western Conference finals for the next two years five years 10 years do you think we have enough do you think we have to make a trade are you team patience and just let the chips fall if we flame out with this six core six or we make it to a championship run um or where do you stand on this let me know in the in the comments or in the chat if you’re new to the channel make sure you hit the subscribe buttton if you like this video hit the like button keep rocking with the chop shop and we’re going to keep dropping that [Music] fire DJ Candlestick it’s the chop slap show

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