quick, somebody go post this on ClutchFans.
I've been beating this drum a bit on the Mitch thread, because every single time we play the Rockettes, there is at least one poster frothing at the mouth for Udoka. Yet he receives heavy critique from most actual Houston fans, it's crazy.
Usually I'd like Houston to go down in flames, but part of me wonders if it wouldn't be better if they had a good enough playoffs that they don't change course, extend Amen for as much as possible, and pass on Giannis. A post-season reality check may work out better for them in the long run.
I love Amen's upside but man, that 21% on catch and shoot threes is nuts. Steph ain't great at it either, but at 32% on catch and shoot threes you can't play the COVID defense on him with no one within 6 feet like you can Amen. He probably has to get that up to about 30% if he wants to be a max player even with how insane he is defensively and at the rim.
IDK I see a lot of downside in trading for Giannis at 32 years old. Athletic bigs all seem to start falling off pretty hard around 33-34 and they start getting injured a lot, which we have seen already this year at age 31 with Giannis. But see David, Shaq, Ewing, and Garnett; none of them aged very well from 33 on. If I'm paying a guy a 35% max under this CBA he needs to be an MVP candidate every year of that deal. You trade for Giannis and most of that contract you're gonna be paying for the guy Giannis used to be. Just a huge downside with the seniority based max contracts.
Have noticed Steph increasingly going to a pull-up from 3-10 ft, with great success. Once he gets that fully locked in (and he looks well on his way) that's going to be another huge weapon in his bag.
I don't see Giannis to Houston happening at all, on Giannis' side, so that's not a concern to me tbh. But yeah, giving a max to Amen is best case scenario for us. Though they didn't give one to Sengun, and tend to be "stingy"/savvy with their contracts (more than the Spurs which is a low bar
).... I'm not sure it happens after this season's playoffs. He was awful in the last game against us, and we didn't even try so hard to expose the dude
Assisted% is the key stat here.
These numbers don't reflect just how much more skilled Stephon is offensively compared to Amen. When you see Castle play, you see a true offense initiatior, granted still an extremely raw one, but you can see the blueprint is there. It is easy to see him as the engine of an offense because of how much he has on his bag as a ballhandler, finisher and playmaker. Amen is just much more gimmicky and depends on others to get his. He doesn't have the skillset to be a "head of the snake" type player, like Castle.
Hendrix Sonics T-shirt?!?! Come to me my precious....Also, Congrats to Steven Cassell
My bad.Take the Wemby talk to the Wemby thread, tbh. I click this thread expecting Castle talk and yall got me double checking if I clicked the right title.
I don't think the comparisons are great, David Robinson and Shaq had serious chronic injuries (Giannis had a string of muscle issues but not to that level) so I'd expect him to age a bit more gracefully than them; on the other hand, KG was very effective well into his late 30s (until he was traded to Brooklyn, basically) but his game wasn't as reliant on athleticism as Giannis'. Regardless, I will not dispute the notion that Giannis isn't likely to have a lot of prime left, which is why I wouldn't want the Spurs to trade for him.
?? Wemby has that already…
I don’t think anything they do now matters. When the basketball gods gift you 4 consecutive top 4 draws and you don’t come away with a franchise player on any one of them, you’re just fucked.
The twins are just bigger versions of Matisse Thuybull. I just don’t ever see them finding an offensive bag. Just back off and take away their driving angles.
What was it, Jalen Green, JBS Jr, Amen, and Sheppard? Yikes. People complain about us not landing picks in the teens and twenties. These are all bad misses. Three of them aren't really bad players, but very limited and mostly role players.
