The post-James Harden era has been tough to watch for Houston Rockets fans.
They went from being perennial NBA championship contenders to bottom-feeders, and their reputation as an organization around the league isn’t exactly the best.
That became quite evident in John Wall‘s latest interview.
The former first-overall pick looked back on his brief stint in Houston and only had one word to describe it: Trash.
John Wall speaks on his time in Houston
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Wall went on to describe how normalized and institutionalized tanking and losing were on the Rockets.
He went at them for purposely trying to lose games and opened up on how he tried to mentor Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Jr., so they don’t soak those bad habits in.
Wall added that the Rockets’ iso-heavy offense and all those one-on-ones would get both Green and Porter Jr. out of any team, regardless of their talent.
The former Washington Wizards All-Star was so miserable in Houston that he eventually agreed to leave money on the table and sign a buyout just to leave and take his talents somewhere else.
He’s now taking his career back from the ground as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, playing for a playoff team again.
As for the Rockets, they’ve done a great job of stacking young talent and have a promising core for the future.
However, they’ll never be a winning team unless they make some deep changes in the organization and coaching staff, regardless of how many top-tier prospects they manage to stack on their roster.
