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Amen Thompson is the Rockets' REAL franchise player

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Os Trigonum, Jun 26, 2023.

  1. Hemingway

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    No problem. As much sh*t as I’ve gotten from Reed and FVV’s fan, I thought I’d have some fun
     
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    Now do shooting averages outside of 5 feet.
     
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    lol
     
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    Where’s that man Scoot Henderson everyone was ready to trade up for?
     
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    He’s number 1 in WS
     
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    He looks a lot better when we're not trying to play him as a guard. I hope that experiment is at an end. We need more Holiday and Okogie, and Amen should be taking minutes from Tari and DFS, not them.
     
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    Cookies and. Cake
     
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    Fabulous. Should still work on his jumper.

     
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    His career stats are low because he couldn’t get playing time his rookie year or starting time his sophomore year until an injury forced our coach to play him.
     
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    He is still a guard aka SG. He is gonna be the SG till KD leaves or retires.

    He stagnated most of the season but ever since Feb he has picked it up a notch.

    The issues remain he still cant shoot and gets guarded by the opponent center but now he is a lot more active and aggressive cutting, driving, and on the boards instead of camping at the 3 pt line even if everybody knows he cant shoot.
     
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    Honestly I would still take Scoot right now as a buy-low guy if Portland wants to part with him for a FRP :p In addition to Amen, not instead of.
     
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    I’m talking 3 years ago when clutchfans wanted to sell the farm to move up for Scoot lol
     
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    Yeah I know haha. I was one of the people who thought it might be a good idea to move up, although I did also like Amen a lot before the draft. I was wrong, Amen is way better than Scoot and probably always will be.
     
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    Amen is a championship caliber player when he has 2 offensive threats ahead of him in the pecking order. He can break games with just floating around and accumulating everything within the flow of the offense.
     
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    Lol JOF
     
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    Probably?
     
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    I still have some level of belief in Scoot putting it all together if he can get and stay healthy, he's had a lot of injury issues. I'd say 98% chance Amen has the better career at this point.
     

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