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Paulo Alves

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2666 total appearances

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Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

That being said, extrapolating that to the other young guys...

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

Well, yeah, the Spurs haven't done some tremendous job at drafting.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

We're not sure what Stefan Kassel is, if he is placed in a position where he's on a bad team, if he's in the position Jalen Green was when he came into Houston, for example.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

because well even in this position Stefan Kassel is not an efficient player I know he started the year really hot and even still he's below 30% from 3 right and he's not necessarily that efficient of a playmaker either like you're playing with Victor Mbanyama

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

And two guys that are shooting really... Like, two corner guys shooting really hard from three.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

And you have, like, barely over a two-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

Right?

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

I think, like, most of it is Wemby.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

But I think Wemby is reaching a point where...

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

as long as he's playing and then this was the case with the sports last year but he missed a ton of games like as long as he's playing it it's hard to lose games because he's that good like if you should replace wambi with shangoon like i think the rockets are tier one title contenders um because well how are you gonna score on a man and wambi and jabari and tari

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

And then how are you going to defend KD, Wemby?

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

It's just unreasonable.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

Even as a vertical, even when he doesn't have the ball, he can spot out because we have a vertical spacer.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

He can make easy passes and he sees above everybody else on the court.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

It's just insane how good he is.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

Which doesn't mean that you should excuse, you know, we're talking about specifically, and I guess I'll move this into, you know, offseason a little bit, not offseason talk, but midterm future talk.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

Doesn't mean that our guys get a pass because we're comparing our team to the Spurs, right?

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

And yes, the Spurs young core gets a lot of, like, their jobs are a lot easier because Wemby's there.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

It doesn't change the fact that our young guys should be better.

Rockets LaunchPod
Failure to launch: Losses to Spurs, Warriors show ominous signs

It doesn't change the fact that, you know, I'll start off with Therese, and Therese's defense has progressed massively, and it's been largely masked by his insanely hot shooting from pre, which has come to a stop.