When I was walking down the concourse I saw a group of fans trying to take a picture with a player, and I could hear them yelling Anthony Black's name. Turns out, it was not Anthony Black but was instead a random guy that looked only somewhat like Anthony Black (the hair, mainly), so he looked very uncomfortable taking photos under the assumption that he was, in fact, Anthony Black.
I'm with you about the Rockets -- they're looking to be ridiculously deep and there's at least two, maybe three guys who're eventually going to have to go elsewhere if they're going to play and/or reach their full potential as individual players. IMO Tate will certainly end up one of the odd men out; the question will be who else ends up in that spot.
I agree wholeheartedly, including about Tate. That bums me out, because I think Tate is really good and the exact kind of player a team trying to win ought to be developing. The team still needs to figure out the ceiling on its young(er) guys, though, and it feels like Tate likely has the lowest (even if I'm more confident in him to be a glue guy type of player than anyone else).
That ceiling is why I specified Tate as one of the odd men out -- he is a "glue guy" but pretty much everyone else in that conversation has more raw talent and higher ceilings to what they could be than he does. Sad but true.
When I was walking down the concourse I saw a group of fans trying to take a picture with a player, and I could hear them yelling Anthony Black's name. Turns out, it was not Anthony Black but was instead a random guy that looked only somewhat like Anthony Black (the hair, mainly), so he looked very uncomfortable taking photos under the assumption that he was, in fact, Anthony Black.
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Ha! That sounds exactly right.
I'm with you about the Rockets -- they're looking to be ridiculously deep and there's at least two, maybe three guys who're eventually going to have to go elsewhere if they're going to play and/or reach their full potential as individual players. IMO Tate will certainly end up one of the odd men out; the question will be who else ends up in that spot.
I agree wholeheartedly, including about Tate. That bums me out, because I think Tate is really good and the exact kind of player a team trying to win ought to be developing. The team still needs to figure out the ceiling on its young(er) guys, though, and it feels like Tate likely has the lowest (even if I'm more confident in him to be a glue guy type of player than anyone else).
That ceiling is why I specified Tate as one of the odd men out -- he is a "glue guy" but pretty much everyone else in that conversation has more raw talent and higher ceilings to what they could be than he does. Sad but true.