OFFICIAL 2023 NBA DRAFT THREA: THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2023 8PM ET / 5PM PT

[Ariel]

Most of Houston's talent is very expensive, tied to high draft picks, and honestly just flat out stupid in terms of basketball. Even an effective guy like Eason is a lunkhead in knowing what to do. They're going to win games when certain players go off, which may be fairly often, but they're never going to win a playoff series. Can't even imagine them getting close to one.

Whitmore is almost going to make the situation worse.

Yes, but there is talent there, just not a good framework to make the most of it. They need a few good role players than play team ball, defend and shoot, build up their young guys value, and trade a couple of them by the trade deadline. There is a path towards a better future in Houston, it just requires some tweaking, but it's easy to see a way out of the hole they've been in for the last few years.

[Mr. Body]

I see it as more needing pruning rather than tweaking. You have chuckers, you have tunnel vision dudes, you have role players who don't know how to be role players. Then you have some Turkish guy trying to move the ball around and win. And you have a very expensive Jabari Smith waiting in the corner waiting to get the ball. I don't see how any of this can work.

[rascal]

I see it as more needing pruning rather than tweaking. You have chuckers, you have tunnel vision dudes, you have role players who don't know how to be role players. Then you have some Turkish guy trying to move the ball around and win. And you have a very expensive Jabari Smith waiting in the corner waiting to get the ball. I don't see how any of this can work.

They have a good head coach.

[Ariel]

I see it as more needing pruning rather than tweaking. You have chuckers, you have tunnel vision dudes, you have role players who don't know how to be role players. Then you have some Turkish guy trying to move the ball around and win. And you have a very expensive Jabari Smith waiting in the corner waiting to get the ball. I don't see how any of this can work.

It's not that bad, you can do with a couple low IQ guys, just not your entire team. I'd dump KPJ and get a decent PG (Tyus Jones from Washington shouldn't cost too much), sign a veteran center like Lopez, have Ime work with them so that they actually have a game plan and set plays, and once players start to raise their value trade a couple of them (including Jalen Green, preferably).

[BacktoBasics]

They have a good head coach.

That is what is most interesting to me. A real challenge. Definitely not Boston. Gonna be real interesting. Ime can potentially make a real career move here.