Amen Thompson is the Rockets' REAL franchise player

What about the two kick-outs to open shooters?

The thing that stuck out the most: even in a casual pick up game, Amen is a team player that passes out of double teams instead of forcing shots up.

 

Amen's 1v1 skills look pretty rough. Even Steven Adams looked better than this in 1v1 settings.

 

Amen plays by instinct rather than by craft. He gets himself stuck a lot of times because he has no "plan" in his moves. In game, he can rely on his fast processing power to make crisp bail out passes. With this kind of 1v1 game, there's no passing. Once he gets stuck, he has nowhere to go but force a bad shot.

He needs to develop counter moves to make his moves unguardable 1v1.