Everything posted by HtownHorn
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
Love the deal for Jabari. He's a quality rotational player but not a star. If he develops into a elite 3 and D wing, the contract is great.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
How they ace their offseason: You could make the argument Houston has done it already. In a period of two weeks, the Rockets traded for Kevin Durant and agreed to new contracts for Fred VanVleet, Aaron Holiday, Jae'Sean Tate and Jeff Green. They also signed coach Ime Udoka to an extension. The Durant trade was significant not just because the team acquired a top-10 player but also because its depth was kept largely intact. One move they should make: Let's expand this to multiple moves. The first is to sign Dorian Finney-Smith (if he opts out of his contract with the Lakers) to a two-year, $28 million contract. The VanVleet restructured contract (they reduced his $44.9 million team option to nearly $20 million) gives Houston the flexibility to use the full non-tax midlevel exception and not exceed the first apron. The team would, however, need to waive the $8 million non-guaranteed contract of Jock Landale. The second and most important move is to sign Durant, Jabari Smith Jr. and Tari Eason to extensions. Smith and Eason are eligible to sign until Oct. 20, and Durant has until June 30, 2026, to take a two-year deal.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
We can scratch Malik Beasley off the list.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
Cleveland just traded for Lonzo Ball, could mean that they expect Ty Jerome to leave via FA. I'd take him over the guy from Minnesota.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
I believe he's also a UFA and there are only a few teams that have cap space and none of those teams are going to be playoff teams. The Rockets should offer their entire MLE and make this an easy decision.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
We are currently under the LT, so we have access to the full MLE which is the NT MLE. If we used all that, we'd be going into the LT. Cutting Landale and renouncing Holliday would allow the Rockets to use the full MLE and stay under the LT. With the upcoming extensions to Durant, Smith, and Eason the Rockets really want to hold off on going into the LT for as long as possible.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Walter was at 85 I itches and cruising. Espada loves making blowouts close by over managing. Can we fuxking DFA Ort and Hernandez and go get a real MLB pitcher, with Gusto moving into the pen now that Lance is back.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
There is no way we have enough matching salaries for Brown now.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Abreu was nails.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
The lineup needs to be refigured. Smith needs to be in the Top 4, and Meyers never needs to leave the 9th spot. If Alvarez makes it back it needs to be Pena, Smith, Alvarez, Paredes, Altuve, Diaz, Walker, FA, FO
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
How are you not tagging on that fly ball? Holy shit, this fucking team is so lazy.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Abreu is coming in even though he was overused last week.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Fuck Joe Espada.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
So, why did Espada pull Brown? Arms don't fall off at 100 pitches.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Fuck. Why are you swiging at that shit? This team has no idea how to hunt pitches to drive in runs.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Productive outs are good.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
We can defintely rule out Fibonacci.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
I also wonder if Philadelphia is still willing to keep Grimes considering they drafted Edgecomb at #3.
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Angel Reese: Fair pay, anti-sexualization, side eyes, and Missed Buckets
You'd be like her 240th body, but since you aren't in sports broadcasting and can't help her career, you have no shot.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
27 consecutive shutout innings against the Phillies
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
King also didn't do his job. He covers 1st, it is an out.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
This is where you pull the reliever, especially after that fucking brain fart to not cover 1st.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
Especially with sieves at guard letting opposing guards penetrate at will.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Gordon and Okert are painting.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
To be fair, UH completely pants him and their guys weren't bigly bigs.