Jump to content

2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff ๐Ÿš€ [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]


Recommended Posts

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

ย 

ย 

Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley played three seasons together with the Rockets and made the playoffs only once losing to the Lakers 4-1 in the first round. They weren't crackin' by any means.ย 

Edited by UDontKnow
  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 1
Posted
6 hours ago, ztejas said:

Y'all are going to forget who Cam Whitmore is once you see Durant play 5 games with these guys.ย 

Seriously. Cam is just a guy right now. He has potential, but he's not gonna achieve anything here with so many people in front of him. He needs to go elsewhere to grow, and the team could use future picks for him.ย 

Posted

Does aggy Graham write for the Suns too??

https://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2025/7/3/24457409/phoenix-suns-win-kevin-durant-trade-khaman-maluach-jalen-green-dillon-brooks-analysis
ย 

ย 

What Did Houston Get? A Warning Label

Iโ€™m sorry Houston, we lied. The Phoenix Suns sold you a lemon that they were willing to chew their arm off to get away from, and you gave us a future. You get a 37-year-old in September that will just hoop and score 25 points per game and ruin all that young positive chemistry that youโ€™ve been building. The Rockets didnโ€™t just get Kevin Durant. They inherited the full Kevin Durant Experienceโ„ข๏ธ. That means:

  • A 37-year-old star who will iso your team to death and turn the ball over
  • A mercenary who bails at the first sign of trouble.
  • A โ€œIโ€™m unbothered, just here to hoopโ€ -er who becomes disengaged when things donโ€™t go his way.
  • A walking frowny face emoji who turns on fans and media the second criticism enters the chat.
  • A social media sniper with a burner account and a short fuse.

Letโ€™s be honest: when things go wrong โ€” and they will go wrong โ€” Durant will do what heโ€™s done in OKC, Golden State, Brooklyn, and Phoenix. Heโ€™ll disengage. Heโ€™ll throw shade. And heโ€™ll plan his escape while the team he just destabilized is left to clean up the mess.

The Slim Reaper always strikes again.

ย 

ย 

Posted
18 hours ago, ztejas said:

Y'all are going to forget who Cam Whitmore is once you see Durant play 5 games with these guys.ย 

ย 

12 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

Seriously. Cam is just a guy right now. He has potential, but he's not gonna achieve anything here with so many people in front of him. He needs to go elsewhere to grow, and the team could use future picks for him.ย 

ย 

2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Cam is a ClutchFans GAWD. I would expect nothing less from the fanbase.ย 

i'm fine trading him, i just don't want to give him away for nothing.ย  i'm fine dragging this into the season if necessary.ย  he's curenttly an 8th-9th man, not anyone who is going to be significantly relied upon.ย  his being upset with his role is not going to disrupt team chemistry or anything like that.

Posted (edited)
9 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2025/07/rockets-to-trade-cam-whitmore-to-wizards.html

Cam to the Wiz for 2 SRPs.

He's from the DMW era, so looks like the Rockets did him a solid.

Correct. He should get a lot of shots. I hope Camโ€™s agent scratches our back down the road.ย 
ย 

And they traded him to a team and conference that will never come back on us.ย 

Edited by billfromlaketravis
Posted

Iโ€™m heartbroken that theyโ€™ve traded Cam. Wouldโ€™ve loved to have seen him with the new additions and think he would have feasted going to the hoop and with the 3 ball with the improved spacing weโ€™ll see with KD. I am afraid of getting the short end like the Dodgers in giving away Yordan. The only solace I have is that he was traded to a non-contender in the Eastern Conference.

Posted

Iโ€™m supposed to be upset about a guy who was such a locker room cancer, the Suns didnโ€™t want him, and he couldnโ€™t even get minutes in our offense last year that was begging for anyone who could make buckets?ย 

ย 

Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Iโ€™m supposed to be upset about a guy who was such a locker room cancer, the Suns didnโ€™t want him, and he couldnโ€™t even get minutes in our offense last year that was begging for anyone who could make buckets?ย 

ย 

He looked really good in the game against a full strength Thunder squad in March or April, which he started with Reed, and was never seen from again.

I love Ime โ€” one of his weaknesses is his reluctance to play Reed and Cam this past season. I really wanted to see Reed and Cam play and grow together. Ime needs to double down and make sure he develops Reed โ€” he needs to average 20 minutes a game at a minimum.

ย 

Edited by Macklemore
Posted
6 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

He looked really good in the game against a full strength Thunder squad in March or April, which he started with Reed, and was never seen from again.

I love Ime โ€” one of his weaknesses is his reluctance to play Reed and Cam this past season. I really wanted to see Reed and Cam play and grow together. Ime needs to double down and make sure he develops Reed โ€” he needs to average 20 minutes a game at a minimum.

ย 

Reed will play. He was not ready for real minutes at 19yo.ย 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
5 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

Dang I was hoping to get a first rounder for him at the least.ย 

No one giving a FRP for a wing who canโ€™t defend, canโ€™t pass and has an attitude

Sending him back home to the DMV was a good move by Stoneย 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted

I think we need a true shooting guard. Not sure whatโ€™s available at this point. Cam is probably a handshake an apology to Ime from being that guy.ย 
ย 

Reed is a great and all but heโ€™s sub 6โ€™2โ€™โ€™ and theyโ€™ve been reluctant to play Reed and FVV together. This really cuts into his minutes. Maybe Ime changes his mind next year, but if Reed has to play with Amen at all times thatโ€™s sub 15 minutes a game.ย 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted (edited)
2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

No one giving a FRP for a wing who canโ€™t defend, canโ€™t pass and has an attitude

Sending him back home to the DMV was a good move by Stoneย 

Probably not, but the Nets are a very stupid team with more picks than they can possibly use.ย 

Edited by billfromlaketravis
Posted
14 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Hah well I guess we just needed his salary off the books. If anything these picks will be filler for whatever move we make at the trade deadlineโ€ฆ

Need his roster spot more than the salary relief. This team could end up deep.

Posted
1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

Itโ€™s the Bulls pick in 26 and Kings in 29

Haha. The Wizards thought so little of Cam that they didnโ€™t even want to use one of their home grown seconds on him.ย 
ย 

Be right back, I need to pop over to ClutchFans.ย 

Posted
27 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

The ClutchFan response is about what youโ€™d expect. Cam is the next Kobe, Cam was worth a top 20 pick, Ime sucks because he canโ€™t coach strong willed players.ย 

Cam is going to be very good. However his style does not fit with not help the current rockets. The Rockets are doing him a favor.

Posted
Just now, Slacks said:

Cam is going to be very good. However his style does not fit with not help the current rockets. The Rockets are doing him a favor.

Cam is a natural scorer, but his game doesnโ€™t fit our style or (especially) our winning window.

We should actually be happy it came to this; if so many of our first rounders hadnโ€™t panned out (especially given where we picked them), letting a guy like Cam go for essentially nothing wouldnโ€™t be an optionโ€ฆ

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted
5 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Cam is going to be very good. However his style does not fit with not help the current rockets. The Rockets are doing him a favor.

Best case scenario, I think heโ€™s a Zach Levine type. Good scorer, but not efficient, and thatโ€™s it.

Posted

Iโ€™m curious what the other offers were for Cam. Itโ€™s reminiscent of how Presti handles things. If youโ€™re not playing, and youโ€™re unhappy heโ€™ll help move you to where you want to be. It sounds like bullshit, but Presti has routinely convinced Thunder players to take less money because they like how theyโ€™ve been treated in OKC.ย 

Posted
1 hour ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Best case scenario, I think heโ€™s a Zach Levine type. Good scorer, but not efficient, and thatโ€™s it.

Lavine is very efficient scoring the ball. He's just one dimensional and has zero edge.

Posted
Lavine is very efficient scoring the ball. He's just one dimensional and has zero edge.

Something interesting from when I was looking up Lavineโ€™s stats.

42 games with Bulls.

FG %: .511
3pt %: .446

32 games with Kings

FG %: .511
3pt %: .446

Statistically that seems pretty much impossible.
Posted

Besides believing Cam has a lot of potential if given more minutes, I looked at him as a low cost option to grab a bunch of buckets in games when KD is hurt or load managing. Iโ€™d rather have him than the two 2nds.ย 

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted
11 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Besides believing Cam has a lot of potential if given more minutes, I looked at him as a low cost option to grab a bunch of buckets in games when KD is hurt or load managing. Iโ€™d rather have him than the two 2nds.ย 

Cam wants to do one thing and that is shoot the ball period.ย ย 

There are reasons why he was available at 20 and it wasn't because the Rockets were the only team to see his offensive skills and physical ability.ย ย 

He didn't want to do what his HC did with the Rockets, they tried a few trips down to get his attention, and each time back he did the same damn thing.

You can find someone to take shots in garbage time and also may act like they care playing defense, rebounding, and listening to the HC.

He is most likely going to get his points and shots in Washington because as Van Gundy has said multiple times on the radio, someone has to take those shots.ย  What I don't see him being though is part of a winning team and that is all that matters.ย 

  • Like 1
Posted

Iโ€™m sure the narrative of โ€œif heโ€™s such a problem that a Rockets team that just traded their starters at 2 and 3 and still want to be rid of himโ€ didnโ€™t help drive demand.ย 

Posted
54 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

Iโ€™m sure the narrative of โ€œif heโ€™s such a problem that a Rockets team that just traded their starters at 2 and 3 and still want to be rid of himโ€ didnโ€™t help drive demand.ย 

Most likely, as well as the string of DNP Coach's Decision by his name over the last two years.ย 

Posted
56 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

Iโ€™m sure the narrative of โ€œif heโ€™s such a problem that a Rockets team that just traded their starters at 2 and 3 and still want to be rid of himโ€ didnโ€™t help drive demand.ย 

ย 

surly thread was ready to trade 5 unprotected first round picks for himย 

Posted
39 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

cam is in a great situation. he'll have a shot at being an all starย 

Iโ€™m ready for the espn profile article in which he confides that he felt overly constrained by Ime and finally feels welcomed by the Wizards.ย 
ย 

โ€œThey never let me show what I can do,โ€ Whitmore was quoted as saying, while averaging 21 points/gm on a 20-62 Wizards team. ย 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
1 hour ago, Scraps said:

KD to wear #7

What is this shit. 35 man come on.
ย 

It doesn't matter as long as it's a Rockets jersey. Give the man the ball and let him cook.

Posted
On 7/4/2025 at 6:57 PM, ztejas said:

Y'all are going to forget who Cam Whitmore is once you see Durant play 5 games with these guys.ย 

Hopefully KD makes it more than 5 games ๐Ÿ™ย 

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



ร—
ร—
  • Create New...