That's the Rockets and the thunder.

So I mean, which is the better job?

Ah, man, it's tough because obviously the Rockets have mawr wind now talent.

But to me, I think Oklahoma City is the better job from this standpoint, I think first of all, the expectations are tempered.

I don't know what the expectations of Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta are.

It's probably championship, although I don't think that team is close to championship right now.

So I think Oklahoma City has Mawr tempered expectations.

I think they've got a more stable organization in terms of growing and building the right way and not wanting to short cut the process.

And I think you know, I look at those young players and if I'm a young coach, that's something I want to grow, and I wanna go with Shakil, just Alexander and that roster players and see where we could go.

I think Houston has all the makings off.

Hey, you're gonna come in here, you're gonna coach the way we've been coach the last couple of years.

I don't wanna hear some new stuff from you guy.

And by the way, if you're not successful at the gate, there's a chance that we might replace.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, okay, See, is a safer job.

Of course, because you're gonna have more room for error when you go to Houston.

They're looking to win a championship.

They want to see how you're gonna coach James Harden and Russell Westbrook.

So you know, if you don't come up with anything in the first couple of years, and you could be out of there, but the safer job is definitely.

Okay, See?

But the better job is Houston.

I mean, you're a coach with championship aspirations.

You have a top five player, a top 10 player on the roster.

That's a coach's dream right there.

Any time you could get those two type calibers on your team, you have opportunity to win a championship.

And plus, wouldn't you wanna live in Houston better than rather than Okay, see?

Of course, the Houston is a better job.

If that was the thing that I could understand a little bit, you know, known octo.

Okay, see, but Houston is a bigger metropolis for sure, But I'll ask you this, Paul let me and I mean, we'll get your thoughts on this, too.

We asked Perk and windy this yesterday.

When you take that Houston job, are you relying upon the similar style that they've relied upon here recently or you trying to change things up all like, Are you trying to tell James Harden Maybe you have to play off the ball more?

Maybe we have to move the ball more, less isolation.

What are you doing there?

If you're the coach in Houston, the new coach, I'm a new coach.

I'm not gonna do a 41 80 because obviously James Harden has been successful in his own right of being the M V P caliber player the way he's been playing.

But some things have to get tweaked up because they haven't gone to the Promised Land.

They haven't been to the finals yet.

And so I'm like, Look, you know, James, if you wanna win, you have to Trust has to be a trust and accountability between the best player and coach.

And so some things have to change if you think you could take the next step with changing them, because if you're not, they're gonna continue to be on that treadmill and losing the 2nd 1st round and won't even see a conference finals.

Yeah, well, that's kind of why I don't like this job, because if I walk in and I have clear ideas and I want to do things that are different from how they've been done, I'm not sure those guys they're gonna buy in.

I mean, you take James Harden.

This is a guy who's been top five and M v P voting for the last four or five years.

He makes a lot of money.

He's one of the paces for Adidas on, and he's also every year he leads the league in scoring.

If someone comes up to me and says, Hey, the way you've been doing it isn't quite good enough.

We need to do it differently.

And I'm talking like, What are you talking about?

Look at all these accolades.

How much better could I be?

And so if you're a new coach and you got a new system, if it doesn't work within the first two weeks, ain't nobody gonna follow after that.

They're gonna be like, man, see if we tried it your way, it didn't work.

We're gonna go back to our way of dealing with translate into team success, either.

And so, of course, individual success is good.

When you get your age, you want team success.

And I think Harden is mature enough and he's ready for that.

That Zed.

How many players when you tell them if you need to change for team success, except that usually guys say it's his fault or we need to get him better or something like that.

It ain't me.

I'm the one who's M V P.

Yes, it is certainly a much more volatile situation, I think.

Paul, you nailed it when you said O K.

C is safer.

I would also trust the okay, see management more so than I would trust the Houston management.

You've got a first time general manager.

You've got an owner who certainly can be a little volatile, I think at times to write, or at least someone who is imposing as faras his, uh, willingness to win right, like he wants to be involved.

And I think he wants it ASAP.

So I think between that and the fact that you can take your time, it okay see, they've got young pieces we listed.

Can we put that in one more time?

All those assets that the that the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Look at all that.

Now, Paul, you got traded to the Brooklyn Nets and Boston.

I think still has picks from those days.

This will go further.

This will go even further than that.

So when you couple that with the fact that you know Tilman Fertitta could be a little volatile, the whole situation there in Houston could be volatile, depending on you know, James Harden and his demeanor and the owners demeanor.

And we haven't talked about Russell Westbrook in this particular equation.

I think the okay, see, job is a safer bet and, honestly, probably a better job overall.

Absolutely.

I mean, you could look at their future, but like if I'm a coach and I'm asking, what do I want to accomplish as a coach?

I have an opportunity here to coach one of the greatest players of this generation, two of them, or I can build down here and line them up for success later down the road, like we saw Philly two years ago.

So where they are now, And so you just have to ask yourself as a coach, what do you Sure and so But I need more compensation to go to Houston for sure.

E that's right, because yeah, because it could be short lived.

So you gotta make sure you get those years right.

You get those dollars, right?

Where is it?

Okay.

See, you've got some leash there for sure.

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