Rockets Legend Kevin Durant Agrees 2 Year/$90 Million Extension & Player Option In 2027-2028

That guy said who's picking up the scoring that left with Dillon and Jalen.

 

Reed has proven very little outside of a good preseason and Amen is a terrific wing that we're praying can become a competent ball handler. We left the summer with just two proven guards on the roster- FVV and Aaron Holiday.

We definitely don't have a balanced roster especially after the FVV injury.

We have a couple months to see if Reed and Amen can become competent guards. If not, we'll make a trade after December 15th to address the issue.

 

Why is it thin?

Let's just put this as simple as possible - The biggest factor in the teams success this season rests on both Reed and Amen playing very well - in roles neither of them has been in before. If one or the other fails or has an injury, you have little behind them. That was the case even before FVV went down - it's just magnified now.
The addition of Okogie doesn't really change that - he's not a ball handler and Holiday has shown he isn't able to run the offense effectively for long periods.

I think before the FVV injury, the appearance is that with Fred, Amen, Reed and Davison you have enough ball handling but we all know the NBA season is a long one and depth matters - one injury and what looked fine .... just isn't, especially when it was your primary ball handler.


I've said it before, I wonder if DFS gets minutes outside of garbage time (and maybe back to backs) if Tari, Jabari and Durant are healthy - and you have Uncle Jeff and Tate behind them as well as Sengun and Amen able to play minutes at the forward spots.

I'd have preferred some insurance in guard depth over adding another player to the deepest / strongest position on the team.
Give me a guard instead of DFS ....

FVV
Amen
Reed
Holiday
Davison

Vs

Durant
Jabari
Tari
Green
Tate
Amen
Sengun

 

Yeah, I'm not really worried about him this season, but every new season is a chance for father time to eventually win. I think it's a move the Rockets had to make, so I'm not going to worry about it all that much, but as a general rule, I don't like really old players getting player options.

 

Every time I try to watch that podcast I get about 5 minutes in before my brain tries to crawl out of my ear.

 

he meant chucking

 

Very surprised KD took less than the max. He’s always been very mercenary.

 

That's crazy, he won't even be close to Steph in the all-time player rankings, but he will probably get paid more money in the end. Really shows how once you get near the top of the league in terms of talent level, it's more about the timing of your contracts and such than anything to do with who is more talented, both due to the explosion in NBA salaries, and because max salaries prevent the very best players from getting anywhere close to what they're actually worth to their franchises.

 

Probably has to do with his longevity and that he got paid handsomely when on his rookie and sophomore deals as well.

 

Well first of all the biggest factor to our success will be our Big 3 KD, Sengun and Amen + Adams who is arguably one of the best rebounders in NBA history. If the big 3 is healthy, you want the ball to be with them 90% of the time. A ball handling guard tbh has little place in the starting lineup unless he is also a good spot up shooter and defender. If you look at Reed what does he do with the starters? Bring the ball up snd give it to Sengun, Amen or KD. You dont want the pg ballhandling the ball cuz the ball should be in our best players.

That leaves 3 guys off the bench to lead the 2nd unit, Reed/Holiday/JD. If FVV was healthy, Reed would def lead the 2nd unit. If we had spent the MLE on a guard and FVV didnt have his season ending injury where would that guard even play?

Okogie is playing well so far but he is a career 30% 3 pt shooter. Thats why he signed for only vet min. He wasnt supposed to be this good same thing with JD. So on paper the pgs would have been FVV, Amen and Reed, thats already 3 guys for the pg position if we got another guard Reed would be Cam Whitmore 2.0.

3nD is better because we have Sengun, KD and Amen to handle the ball. If like Tari is injured, we have just Amen to be the POA defense at the perimeter and no one else. You want multiple guys to defend the perimeter due to foul trouble and whatnot.

KD should be seen as a ball handler and scorer and not a forward, he is too old and valuable to be chasing guys, playing physical defense, fighting for boards etc Thats why Ime is trying him out at the SG spot.

 

But he’s not married

 

Steph took much less than the max extension on his rookie contract because of injury concerns with his ankle and played three years at Davidson. So Booker is nine years younger and started getting paid max salary way earlier than Steph did.

But the most important factor is just being born later, as the cap has exponentially grown over the past few decades. Jaylen Brown's current $304M, 5-year extension is worth about what KD made in the first 15 seasons of his career ($307M). One extension is worth more than KD's entire tenure as a Thunder, Warrior, and Net. And KD wasn't the type to take discounts. It's hard to comprehend players getting paid $70M per season, but that's the reality now.

 

Career rankings is one thing. But I would say there even as far how good they are as players. They are quite similar actually.

 

Truth!

 

Money growth in the NBA is insane.

One max 4 year deal in the mid 2000's is worth one max season now. Even less than a current supermax one year deal.

 

Recent development with Tari shows getting a forward like DFS is the correct decision.