Houston Rockets 2025 Thread - Mercenary Season

[Playaz Eyez]

Can’t say too much about this game, when you’re two best players drop stinkers, this is exactly what happens. The only thing is they lost by three, moral victories, don’t count, but it’s something. Shout out to Reed Shepherd, though, he practically willed the team back in early on. Props to Amen Thompson and Jabari Smith Jr as well, Jabari Smith in particular was looking like a power forward Ray Allen.

 

[Stone]

The adjustment I see is that double big plus Amen is going to be most effective with Sheppard in and KD out. I don’t think they can start unless the size advantage is massive.

IMO when/if DFS and Tari are back in the mix they should try to run “smaller” for some spurts just to get KD some space.

 

[In The Zone '98]

55 win team and first round victory

Can they chip? Iono if they have the bench for that

 

[Playaz Eyez]

You can tell how much Brooks meant to all the guys here. It was all love before and after the game. Him, Ime, and FVV truly changed the entire culture of the team in just two years, and everybody is really buying into it.

Good all around balanced game from them last night. The PG spot was more than solid, even with JD getting in there and contributing. Amen and Sengun did their thing, with Amen continuing to rebound from some previous games. These are the types of games you want from guys when KD or any main guy is out.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Will run the game back later but I heard it was the Reed Sheppard Bodybag Game, to where it got to the point where the Warriors had to double team him LMAOO

 

[Stone]

Went to sleep at half time thinking I liked how they competed but they weren’t gonna have enough firepower to pull it off.

Sheppard being this good changes the outlook for the team this year and beyond, they obviously haven’t won like OKC but their future is set up pretty similarly. Like he moves like a legitimate all star out there

 

[who_better_than_me]

Looked like a floor general out there. And that’s what we need. FVV is a floor raiser, Reed is a ceiling raiser. Him and Holiday bring that energy when they’re out there. And that’s what we sorely been lacking since we made those trades this summer. My excitement for the season actually elevated after this game. I was jsut keeping things tempered because why I approve of the kd trade, I saw some flaws with the team with kd out there. Mostly in the close game against good teams we lacked a floor general out here and kd handling the ball more was getting drug because dude has good handles for his size but he was turning the ball over too recklessly and most were unforced.