At this point, since getting rid of him is no longer an option, we just have to hope that one day he becomes a decent player. We could have been rid of him after this season if he failed in his "prove it" season.....now he won't have to prove anything, we just rewarded his failure. We never made him earn his starter role, we never made him earn his minutes, we didn't even make him earn his extension. As to the Suns, I highly doubt the Suns would want to get stuck with bad players on bad contracts in trade for Booker, or any of their guys. Either Jalen magically becomes amazing, and we'd want to keep him, or he stays the same and no one would want him....other than apparently Stone.
Very fair deal, I'm thankful Stone didn't just decide to max the dude. Honestly, this is a lot better than paying him the max if he decides to avg 25ppg this year on his pre-season efficiency. I'm still hoping he keeps improving to become an all-star.
Ime Udoka must have signed off on this deal. That tells me that, at a minimum, Udoka thinks that there is a reasonable chance that the flashes we saw last year are possibly sustainable. This team lacks a proven franchise player. This deal gives us more time to figure out whether Green can be one.
A shooting guard who shoots under 36% is borderline unplayable in the modern NBA. Literally nothing else he does matters if he can't shoot 3s. This deal will look good ONLY if he becomes a reliable 3pt shooter otherwise we just wasted money on a bum and that bum will hurt the team until he eventually gets traded. So while i give Stone props for Sengun deal you absolutely shouldn't praise Stone for giving Green 106m until Green earns that money. He'd be lucky to be a starter in an NBA team right now.
I didn't want either one to be extended. Sengun at 37 M is ok, because of his trade value. If Green has a good upcoming season, then his trade value might increase.
I don’t necessarily hate the deal, I would just have to see an uptake in consistency before committing. Good deal bad timing.
I notice the wording about Jalen signing a 2+1 nine figure deal. Which players signed a similar 8 figure deal?
Anthony Edwards 23-24 3p% = 35% Why not just admit you know nothing about basketball because you've been watching the NBA a total of 3 years?
We get 3 years of a motivated Green and we don’t risk losing him and him blowing up. I dont see a single negative.
I think given the years, Green's team acknowledges that Houston values Sengün more and they are okay with 3 years..... Basically they know that Green has been inconsistent and that 5 years would have been too inflexible for the Rockets. It is not maximum security but it is the next best thing.
Most agencies are becoming reasonable......I guess that is progressive thinking. Both contracts are also pretty tradable.
I think my counterpoint here is looking back at D'Angelo Russell and R.J. Barrett, similar high draft picks who signed near max deals and were used as trade assets in the first year of their extensions. Both players were probably disappointments relative to developing into worthy of their contracts, but were able to be traded for very good role players in return (O.G. Anunoby, Andrew Wiggins). I am not going to discount the potential risk for this deal to go sideways, but I do think there are reasonable scenarios where Jalen shows enough next year to have positive trade value in year 1 of his extension, when he would have near-zero value if he was heading into the year as a free-agent-to-be.
