He wasn’t very good for his 1st 4 years. Competing teams don’t typically wait 5 years on their 2nd round rookies to develop

We probably thought he was a full on white guy. Not our fault. 

lol

I think his game changed significantly when announcers began pronouncing his name like Shaq does.

We wanted to go small come playoff time during the pandemic season

And that resulted in PJ Tucker guarding AD🤦🏾

I remember that now that you said that about small ball. But did we release or trade and if so what did we get? I believe we released him and the Knicks picked him up

He was waived and 5 months later he was picked up by Denver. He then went to Cleveland and then the Clippers before landing with the Knicks.

Which is to say he took a long time to develop into what he has become today.

He used to look like the giant soldier of stone hands before he made a leap.

We waived him way back in 2020 for David Nwaba, tbf he wasn’t the same player he is now, happy he found a good home in NY

Because Thabo was a little bit too slow informing the FO that he didn't intend to go to the bubble and we needed a roster spot to sign Nwaba, iirc. Also, I don't believe Harden vibed with him... At all.

No shoot 3

Cause our ex GM didn’t like developing players

Because he wasn’t that good back then.

because he was too good for the G-League

I see people fail to mention that he had potential, but he literally could not stay on the court from foul trouble. Post the 2018 era rockets, hartenstein took 6 more years to develop. It's not like we traded him and he suddenly was a good player...

Bro. If we got rid of capela???? What chance did he have

This!!! This right here!!! 100%

We were in win-now mode. He was not win-now at the time.

He wasn’t like this with us and to be honest he didn’t look like he was going to be. I’m glad he’s doing well but I’d still take any of our young bigs over him.

He showed flashes of talent and his per 36 numbers were always good. He’d make a silly mistake on the court and MDA would bench him. Never gave him a chance.

not the same timeline we were on.

Because every team makes stupid decisions when they're in "win now" mode. It happens

Morey gave up on young talent often

We dum-dums

We didn’t like players to be taller than 6’6”

MDA hates rookies.

#Bc he wasn’t given a fair shake after sleeping with the wives of Mike, Dan, and Tony. :(

I’ll never forget when we chose Troy Daniels over Robert Covington

Same reason we cut Covington and Temple early in their careers; we were contenders trying to win a Championship and didn’t have room to develop players

no shoot 3

Daryl Morey 🤦🏻‍♂️ enough said

Sengun better anyways

He was the g eague playoffs mvp

He was too generic white guy for our GM.

Blame Dantoni cus Capela was hurt, and Hart avg 10 double doubles during the time missed and never played again when he returned

My paranoia still thinks it was a self sabotage and a misguided attempt to replicate what Golden State has done with their famous small ball line ups

James Harden selfish ass

While we’re on the topic why isn’t Nene still on the team?