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This Rockets rebuild must be the strangest I’ve ever seen.

They spend a couple years gathering young talent, then suddenly they are in nearly every rumor for a star player or veteran role player, and give high salaries (too high IMO) to FVV and Dillon Brooks.

What am I missing?

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[–] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Brooks contract just makes no sense. There couldn’t have been many teams interested in him

[–] aquarisces@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I don’t know either, it looks highly questionable given they have Jalen Green, KPJ plus they drafted Amen Thompson. I’m not a Rockets fan but I’d love to know their thoughts on it - and I hope a year of Sengun doesn’t go to waste because that guy was already having trouble finding playing time under Silas.

[–] alertsleeper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And if they had gotten someone like Lillard, Kawhi, AD someone you can reasonably try to build around, it'd be understandable. But overpaying for FVV isn't that

[–] yunggwailo@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They realized their young chuckers need some guidance in chucking so they got some of the best chuckers on the market.

more realistically, the owner is a cheap ass fuckin mobster who will never pay enough for Houston to have a competent FO or coaching staff and he will not pony up to pay players when the time comes. Harden was incredibly wise to ask out and im a huge harden hater

edit: I will give massive props to their scouting though. They really seem to knock it out of the park in the draft. Heres hoping the man fired for sexual harassment can create a proper culture of accountability for these young guys

[–] Ph0mX@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe they’re “rebuilding to be competitive and get people to buy tickets” instead of “rebuilding to win it all.” Tilman Fertitta needs to recoup his losses from his hotel during the pandemic, after all.

[–] alertsleeper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

this makes a whole lot of sense

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah what they’re doing this offseason is strange

[–] alertsleeper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

When the Harden rumors started I dismissed them because they were rebuilding, and then they go and overpay Brooks and give a little bit too much to FVV, so I guess there could be some truth to the Harden chatter

[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They don't own their picks so they have no choice but to compete. And you can't really attract FAs with the dreck roster they have, hence these forced overpays.

[–] Mars2k21@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a failed rebuild by an organization that doesn't seem to care much about winning to begin with in my opinion. Somehow they've gotten the most opportunities in the tank war versus OKC and Orlando, and they've made many questionable decisions that have led to their current state. They are still rebuilding, but its just not going anywhere.

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