Rockets ranked #3 Front Office in NBA

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LMAO

 

Has KD tweeted his opinion on this yet?

 

Rockets seem to be holding their cards which makes me think they are saving their hand for a potential bigger deal or multiple deals in the off season.

one thing about Stone is flexibility in his contracts that favors the team. Sometimes it works but can hurt us like the Tari situation with guaranteed money.

 

I’m ok with the Rockets having a top 5 front office. Our rebuild was quick and even with injuries we have a roster that could win it all. Not OKC level but a lot of things can happen in a 7 game series, as H-Town fans well know. Our real issue is Udoka’s inflexibility during the game. Other coaches make adjustments and he just doggedly keeps playing the same plays and rotations. It shows in our fourth quarter collapses. Other than keeping Ime here or forcing a better offensive assistant, that’s not on the front office.

 

We give away picks without getting anything back, give NTCs to role players, trade you where you wanna go, sign injured players, don't make any trades during the season... we should be #1. Our front office likes getting tricked by other front offices and players for their benefit.

 

Rafael Stone is the Rockets franchise player.

IDIOT @Os Trigonum

 

Who did we give NTC to? Besides FVV I thought it was just a defacto NTC bc one year contracts can’t be traded without permission?

 

How much did Stone pay this guy?

How bad are the other front offices?

 

Jeremy lin

 

Pistons have been bad for so long. I bet they move up in a list like this next year.

2010 - 7th worst record
2011 - 7th worst record
2012 - 9th worst record
2013 - 8th worst record
2014 - 8th worst record
2015 - 8th worst record
2016 - 18th worst record
2017 - 12th worst record
2018 - 12th worst record
2019 - 15th worst record
2020 - 5th worst record
2021 - 2nd worst record
2022 - 3rd worst record
2023 - 1st worst record
2024 - 1st worst record
2025 - 17th worst record

In the rockets excerpt when comparing luck & skill. I take that as the Pistons need to be good for a year or two to overcome all of the losing and to not just be finally decent after all of the draft picks that they have had. At least that's how i take it. The Rockets lost for exactly 3 years and still have an abunence of draft capital coming to them that they can use how they see fit.

One last thing the Pistons record is also impacted being in the East.

 

It sounds like they are rewarding Stone for being a hard negotiator and forcing players to sign for less money. If that is the measurement of a front office, Stone isn't bad. He's conservative to the core.

I thought a great front office was about contending for championships.

In terms of draft selections, Stone decided to take the what he thought was best available player. I guess that's ok.

• He selected Sheppard over Castle which in my mind was a gamble since everyone could tell that Castle had the body and athleticism to D up. Then again, Castle's perimeter shooting would have been even worse with our staff. And if Shepherd played with Wemby, he'd be a game-breaker. I like both Castle and Shepherd, and their careers are intertwined because of the draft order. We'll see if Shepherd becomes the better player.
• Amen Thompson hasn't taken off, despite having all the necessary runway. Was this Stone's plan all along so he can offer less than max money in the next negotiation?
• Tari Eason plays his own reckless style, and while his handle has improved significantly (recall: he had no left hand when drafted) he's only a rotation piece. Outside of hustle plays and gambles, he can't take over a game. Maybe Stone can lowball him, but Tari may walk and leave Stone behind.

In my mind, Stone paid an ok price for Durant, but it cost him two key ball handlers. Stone replaced them with DFS, coming off a complex ankle injury, and Capela, a former fan favorite trying to find his legs as a rotation big. This was a roster that needed a SG in the worst way which was compounded by the FVV injury, Stone decided that resignation was the best path forward. Why trade assets and try to improve the team? Let's let them develop and see what we have later.

Then, Steven Adams goes down and our one signature advantage (offensive rebounding) levels off. No changes.

Stone's too slow and fails to get an adequate return on investments. He's about as predictable as the Rockets stand and watch offense.

 

Thing is though, that's a lot of value to place on an unproven kid. Would they have valued Wemby at 500 mil then?

 

If they are anything like the people of Clutchfans, yes they are sulking.

 

fair enough, Spurs should be lower on the list then as well.

 

He's keeping inflation down

 

The reason why Stone cant make moves is because we are just 1M below the NBA apron. This means we have to give up exact salary to trade for someone. Who do we trade to get players back? The only significant dead salary we have is Adams as FVV has a no trade clause mandated by the league. Trading Adams and getting a useful player back would require a lot of draft capital, you pay for that player and also pay them to take Adams. A lot of posters here say get Alvarado, get Coby White etc These are all one year rentals I dont want us to spend capital on short term trades.

DFS was signed as an insurance to Tari who is always injury prone and Capela was signed as insurance for Adams who is also injury prone. Capela has already proved signing him was a good idea and DFS is starting to round to form. The recent Hornets game showed how valuable having a bunch of defensive forwards can be, Hornets fully healthy have been dominating and won 8 of their last 9 games and Rox limited them to just 101 pts on 33% from 3.

Why do we need another SG? Tari Eason has been better than most SGs in the league. If we got another SG like Malik Monk Reed Sheppard wouldnt have gotten any play time.

And tbh JD Davison exists. JD has been really great when he gets PT Stone can get players that can help the team doesnt matter if Udoka plays Tate instead.

 

This is ridiculous last year people were crediting all the roster improvements to Udoka, but now it's all Stone's fault again lol.

My opinion Stone is a top 5 FO but he is being dragged down by Udoka who is a dummy regarding Xs and Os and rotations. Udoka seems to just be an aura farmer who is 100% dependent on his assistants and since his assistants keep getting pirated away he has lost more and more effectiveness. Udoka doesnt seem to understand what his players can and cant do, such as when he had Amen on the floor when the Rockets needed a 3. When your coach is clueless of course the roster will look inadequate.

 

I may have the wrong opinion (but It's mine): if Stone hadn't hired Udoka he would have been fired. He was extremely fortunate to find a coach that is well-like and respected by players to pick up the pieces after the Silas fiasco. And Stone learned that he had to listen to his coach because he had no idea--literally nothing--about creating a winning culture.

Stone's problems with apron and salary cap are of his own making. He's literally been at the helm the entire time. He sailed into this future by signing Jabari, not signing Tari, signing Sengun, signing Adams (who's best days are behind him) shipping out Jalen (late), shipping out Brooks (because he needed a matching salary), and bringing in Durant.

Stone had a perfectly open board and stacked these rocks. And if he hadn't had stumbled into Udoka to glue some of it together, we would we be languishing at the bottom of the league.