A brand new era we should mention he was actually a finalist for the Rockets job when Mike D'Antoni got it.

Antonis out.

Silas is in.

You just heard.

Would say he could deal.

Yeah, but for five years ago, he could deal with big time personalities.

But Jay, you're saying right now with rockets need to deal with is deciding.

Are they contender or what are they planning to do with so much money tied up in two dudes?

Well, that's the question.

Look at this team has talent.

They double down triple down with small ball with Daryl Morey.

It did not work out.

Um, now you have a new head coach, even though he has incredible experience.

Worked with Luca.

Don Check has worked with a lot of big time player Stephon Curry as well.

I guess the question is, will this style of basketball work and if not, what tradable assets do you have?

That could make you change up what your new style is going to be?

So if you're looking to market, Dressel Westbrook and James Harden are or do $80 million next year.

So what are the tradable assets and The biggest asset that you have is probably Russell Westbrook.

Now, I'm not saying to break these two up, but if you're gonna run it back with small ball, you have to change up the style in which you play.

You need to get James Harden to buy into that.

I don't know what pieces that will require in order for Houston to come out of the West, but let's be real about a guy is the West is loaded.

The Western loaded.

I know people use that argument.

Well, look happen to the Bucks this year and you know, other teams that came out.

But like look, this year was unprecedented.

We played in the bubble.

It didn't work out that way.

But Houston, can you win with small ball is a question I don't think you can.

It's been proven.

Yeah, it doesn't look like they'll be coming out of the West, that's for damn sure.

I think when you look at the teams that's there, whether it's the Lakers or the Clippers are Golden State or Denver, Utah and Dallas is there.

And so, yeah, how do you run it back?

This was This was invented by Daryl Morey.

Four.

Ah, for Mike D'Antoni.

This is what they wanted to do.

They want a lot of games doing it, but I don't see where they're going to improve by running it back.

I think what you try and do in this situation is you try to just rebuild with some assets.

Whether it's both gone or one gone, Who can you get the most value for?

Is it a Westbrook to the New York Knicks because of this not crackle Pop in some of the things that he adds to the equation?

Is it a James Harden?

Two Potentially, maybe, Ah Yonas connection in Milwaukee to pair that up and maybe you get future assets from Milwaukee because of that, Um, I don't know where it pushes them out in terms of luxury tax and if they willing toe do all of those sort of things.

But I think those two together and I said it from the beginning.

I never thought that those two together would ever work, uh, in terms of winning a championship in bringing a championship to Houston.

Well, that's why I said, if you're James Harden, how how patient are you?

How patient Are you 31 years old?

Alright.

Like, are you looking to rebuild at this stage of your career?

And also, the last time the Rockets have selected in the first round has been since 2015.

That was Sam Dekker.

No selections in this year's NBA draft.

Eso It's like, How are you?

Are you moving?

So if you're James Harden, what moves are we making for me to win in the next couple of years?

If we can't make those moves, then is it time for James?

Hard to think about going somewhere else if he wants to win a championship.

So if you so if you move, I mean, I'm just assuming.

Let's say you move.

Westbrook, what are you getting back and return this championship worthy to pair with James Harden?

Well, you clear out some cap space, you clear some cap space.

Maybe you get an Alfa pay and maybe you get a Kevin knocks some teams that maybe you can.

Some guys that can have, maybe for a year.

But then you could maybe they come off your books.

Bobby Portis, maybe.

Yeah, but now you.

Now you get now 31 dog.

Now you make me 32 if I say or you use all those assets and you try to lure somebody else into a bigger trade for a bigger time free agent.

But you're also, but you also need to change up the style of basketball you have to play.

You can play small ball anymore.

But who are you getting?

That's big that I compare with James Harden to win the championship, right?

Like, who are you getting that like you're talking about trade for expiring contracts or guy who's up So you could trade for Ayaan is to come to a Houston opposed to him going to Milwaukee.

Yeah, I don't know if I would say Janette's ever go to Houston.

I think John is probably gonna stay in Milwaukee.

But what I'm saying here, what you're saying, A big time player you was trying to think.

Who you gonna get to be in the West, though you probably want to try to keep Harden Westbrook and then try to bring in the third piece.

Like Robert Covering like Robert Covington is talented.

P.

J.

Tucker is talented, but this team is really, really small.

But we've seen them with a third piece.

Right.

We've seen SIAC.

Um, we've seen Chris.

Paul.

We've seen James Harden.

What do you mean?

We saw them together and they always CP three CP three, CP three and James Harden.

Yeah, they were.

I mean, we saw them together.

We saw all three of them together.

The question is Eric Gordon, like, you know, can he Is he that player that can take you to the next level?

But he's been injury plagued.

He's been plagued by injuries.

So these are all the questions that this team has to address moving forward.

And it does lead to the question of James Harden thinks he could win.

Ah, World Championship in Houston.

It does.

That's the question that you're gonna ask.

You don't have to go get a top five due to go with him, though, and that's hard to find.

That's hard to find right now.

It's hard to find any justification for what Justin Turner did.

So what should the punishment be?

We want to hear from you ate, ate, ate, say ESPN, 88 79 3776 I just wanna put in one last word on Daryl Morey, and this is coming from a fan, not a guy that played in the n b A.

A guy that played in the NFL.

This dude could be makes you catch radius for Key that you gotta make sure, in my opinion, this guy could be my GM any day.

Why, Yeah, he may ultimately never win an NBA championship, but he's always swinging for the fences.

It's a lost at.

The Rockets made the playoffs the last eight years.

Believe it or not, that's the longest playoff streak in the NBA.

So and some of these names you might laugh at because some of these guys were acquired over the course of his tenure.

But if you're getting be Dwight Howard, when Dwight was a thing, you're getting Chris Paul, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Clint Capela, Patrick Beverley Mantra is Harold.

Some of those guys are bigger stars than others, but every single year he looks at it and says, What can we do to get better?

This dude made more trades with the Rockets and most guys will make in their entire career.

He's always swinging for the fences, and if I'm not a Laker fan, or I'm not a Celtics fan or I'm not a Warriors fan when they're back up.

If I'm a fan of one of the other 27 teams in the league, I want that guy because he is going for it.

Every single.

And that's why I think I'm slowly becoming a fans and 76 years I picked them last year.

I thought they were gonna get to the championship.

It didn't work out.

But now, with a guy like Daryl Morey, when it becomes official, can surround Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons with the right pieces to help them win a world championship.

Well said, Look at their roster right now.

History says it won't look like that when the Sixers begin on day one.