OH NOES DON’T TAKE OUR KIDS!!!1 – A guide to the nation about Houston’s young players

Landing here from ESPN.com?  Not a Rockets fan but curious about Houston’s young players?  This article is a manual classifying Houston’s young players which should come as instructive to the casual NBA fan.Ed.

How’s that for a title?  I debated for a good ten minutes as to whether it’d be worth writing out this post and risking it becoming obsolete before I even got to hit publish.  But here goes anyways.  Too much to say over Twitter.

Yes, young players are being sent from Houston, contrary to the reports from a few hours ago.  I’d be doing it too if I were Stern.  (In fact I can’t believe that first manifestation of this looked like that.)  But noone knows who these “young players” are.  Never before has a group of 1,000 to 2,000 people sat painstakingly trying to decipher the meaning of that phrase.  Is it our good young players?  Is it our crappy young players?  Hell, they can have our young players  as long as its not our good ones.

This calls for a hierarchical classification of our young players.

UNTOUCHABLE YOUNG PLAYERS:

1. Kyle Lowry – untouchable unless bringing back Chris Paul himself

 

YOUNG PLAYERS WHOM, IF WE LOST, I’D NEVER FORGIVE DAVID STERN:

1. Patrick Patterson

2. Marcus Morris

3. Courtney Lee

* NOTE: the young players in this group are all really, really good and will likely get better.

 

YOUNG PLAYERS I’M EMBARRASSED TO ADMIT I DON’T WANT TO LOSE:

1. Terrence Williams

2. Hasheem Thabeet

* NOTE: these are young players who suck now but are wild cards in that they have unlimited potential and haven’t really gotten a chance to play.  I am embarrassed to admit I don’t want to lose them as I’m still clinging on to hope that they one day become good.

 

“MEH” YOUNG PLAYERS:

1. Chase Budinger

2. Goran Dragic

* NOTE: these are young players that I like but not really that much.

 

CRAPPY YOUNG PLAYERS:

1. Jordan Hill

2. Johnny Flynn

* NOTE: these young players suck and you can have them.

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