00:00a man thompson how untouchable is he truly this audio comes from tim mcmahon uh credit to chris
00:07gorman of uh on social media of of finding this but this is tim mcmahon on the hoop collective
00:13podcast talking about how much the rockets like and value a man thompson i'm telling you as high
00:20as you think they might be on a man thompson they're higher like i literally don't know
00:26that they would trade a man for anybody but wimby anybody but wimby all right i okay that's a that's
00:34that's what got people's attention especially i wonder if um him adding his own lanyard on top
00:41of that already is uh they can't possibly feel that way right that that's the only guy they
00:47wouldn't trade almond thompson for i love i know exactly why they would love almond thompson and
00:52why people love almond thompson and in terms of the culture and the actual play on the court and
00:57all that yes everybody loves almond thompson uh but for anybody but wimby i'm having a hard time with
01:03that one i'm having a very hard time that's essentially saying he's the second best player
01:07in the league or at least the second person you would choose to like build a team around
01:12and that seems cool especially when where it rankles people is okay you've got a defensive
01:17minded head coach and they play good defense and that's awesome and well and good but can we can
01:24we get some kind of can we get some kind of threatening offense here especially when it comes
01:29to the playoffs um that i think that's what that's why people were rankled by that is that all right
01:33okay we get it you want to lean into the defense and everything um but like we we just we
01:39what are
01:40we going to try to do is win all of our games 198 or something it's uh it's like we
01:46can't operate
01:46the basketball team this way and it and it puts you in an awkward situation where you love i'm in
01:51thompson but you feel like all right if this is true and do you believe that do you believe it's
01:57true like is that just him exaggerating it i think there's some exaggeration but yeah i do think like
02:02they hold him in such high regard that maybe not number two but he would be like there's not a
02:08lot
02:08of guys i think they really do like a man thompson that much who is your who are your touchable
02:13players right now oh honestly who's most touchable like where you'd get the most you'd get the most
02:20return for touching him and you're not going to cry a million tears for uh for for having to say
02:25goodbye good question um and it's a good question shangun who would get the biggest who would get the
02:32biggest haul right now of touchable players yeah probably shangun yeah i could think so outside of a
02:38man i i shangun thompson you could see somebody like especially if they feel like that's the
02:42missing piece to a championship i there's a lot of teams out there that say oh yeah he would fit
02:47right in on the now that's the team that's not going to be trading away anybody all that enticing
02:51enough yeah shangun i will hire on him than i think a lot of rockets fans or people might be
02:57i would
02:57still have him on my untouchable list like if men if a man is going to be listed that high
03:02i still
03:03would put shangun there i i would rather not get rid of either of them but in terms of like
03:07who would
03:07bring in the best package probably is one of them too and then i don't know maybe a team's
03:12desperate enough that you could get something for kevin durant and i honestly would have no issue at
03:17this point in his career of moving him to try to improve the team yeah um so that's true yeah
03:22he's
03:22uh i wasn't even including him in the conversation and yet which is dumb because that's who there's
03:28always there are there are always going to be attempts at creating rumors about him getting
03:32traded or speculation about him getting traded and that yeah i've got last year kind of last
03:38year kind of wiped my slate clean in terms of what i'm willing to do and not do i think
03:42that
03:43if if they found the right package and something really enticing for kevin durant yeah touchable
03:48yeah for sure i think tari eason is higher on that list because in terms of like i would have
03:52no
03:52problem with him going somewhere else so in terms of like most quote-unquote touchable he would be up
03:58there too and has a contract that would be easy to trade too um you know that's a the deal
04:03they
04:03gave him i know a lot of people kind of raise an eyebrow at it but it's it's very tradable
04:07i think
04:08uh um yeah i i i'm trying to figure out i see so many different conspiracy theories about fred van
04:16vliet that i never know which way is up because i know one of them was that okay him saying
04:20that he
04:20blew his knee out was just him trying to be sure that he's taking his own trade value because he
04:24wants
04:24to play for the rockets and he wants to stay and all that i i feel like that's a bit
04:28much um but i
04:33do you is his recent comment about how he'd blown his knee up does that make you any more nervous
04:39about his return this year yeah it does yeah i don't know when he'll be available or what we
04:43should expect from him but also i don't know like how movable he is i know there's a lot of
04:48rumors
04:48like apparently he deleted all the rocket stuff from his social media there's this idea like he's going
04:53to be traded i don't know i don't know what you would even get for him at this point with
04:57the money and coming off the knee injury and he's in his 30s and apparently you know apparently the
05:01knee injury might have been worse than we were led to to believe so uh but yeah i do have
05:05concerns
05:06that he might not be available to start the season or even if he is available he's not going to
05:10be 100
05:11this year uh his his phrasing made me even more worried yeah um ramona shelburne what she had
05:18written a few days ago it wasn't it was it was relatively recently i believe right um was yeah
05:23on july 5th the uh interviews with team sources and those with knowledge of the team's operations
05:28revealed that the van vliet injury and the season ending ankle injury to steven adams later on
05:33impacted the team in ways that extended off the floor uh let's see whether or not crap i had it
05:40no i
05:41don't um but basically speculating that he might be one of the ones that uh is on his way out
05:46yeah that is touchable that's the word we've been using yeah yeah he's touchable um there is a theory
05:53that the rockets love amend thompson so much almost out of like desperation because jalen green didn't
05:58work jabari smith hasn't quite panned out like they thought or hoped even you can make the case like
06:03shangun hasn't reached the uh what they thought maybe he'd get to so it's almost like amend thompson's
06:09that last hope for stone of this whole rebuild and these draft picks of like he needs so we have
06:14somebody who really turns into that star so there is the belief that they're just kind of clinging
06:19to this hope still and amends their last chance of representing what they thought they were getting
06:24with all these young guys but there's plenty more people than wendy i would be willing to give him up
06:29for
06:30more
06:30you
06:30you
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