Amen Thompson is the only problem in our offense now

He was ****ing lethal with his cuts today. Playing Reed next to him offsets the shooting struggles

let’s give it more time. But staggering the PG minutes and moving him to wing does sound appropriate

 

lol no

 

@Mathloom how many regular season and playoffs games was Jalen given by this org before he got traded? And how may more games were you and other JOFs willing to give Jalen?

 

He needs to move back to free safety or whatever the hell he was playing last year. He’s definitely passing up good looks at jumpers now. I don’t want him afraid to shoot.

 

This Rockets team is better with more potential compared to last year. Keep the young core 5.

 

No changes should be made. Now that the roster is finally full, they should let it percolate and evaluate how things develop during January. There is no need to rush.

To be clear, I have no doubt they will add another guard, hopefully someone who can shoot 3s decently and run point better than Holiday. Defense is not the priority for this addition.

 

I think you can do both ....


Have him push the ball up court and stress the defense early, especially off of defensive rebounds, if there's a path to the basket, take it.

If not, give it up and assume the dunkers spot.

 

I'd start Reed and let Amen and Reed split the PG duties. Both guys are still learning. Both have the potential to be very good.

Amen is inconsistent on offense. His shooting has regressed. There's no need to pull the plug but his burden of being the full time PG should be reduced.

 

Because of the FT %, I am not ready to give up on him as a more perimeter-oriented player. I believe the form will come, and I frankly couldn’t care less about regular season record as long as we are in the top 6, and I see almost no chance we don’t finish there. Let him develop this whole year, subtly shift his emphasis to the dunker spot in the playoffs, work on it all next postseason, then decide. The beauty of Amen is that even if they sag way off, he is still quick and strong enough to get all the way to the basket - the problem early in the season was missing the layups, not missing the 3s.

 

OP is hard on his favorites

Goin hard on Amen
Gone hard for Jalen

 

Amen isn't playing "PG" permanently. Once we have resolution out top this year, he goes back to impacting the game as before.

 

sengun seems to be the one that doesn’t fit

 

Except the game before when he scored 26 points and was 3/4 on jumpers in the lane. Look at his percentages over the last 5 games or even 10 games and his FG% is fine. It is frustrating watching his 3 pointers as I had high hope that the progress he showed in pre-season was going to translate. They are already having him share PG duties, but the fact of the matter is he is the only player on this team with the capability to drive and dish. Unless you are going to make a significant trade there isn’t a better choice. Reed is just a better shooting FVV and we would wind up with the same result as last year. It’s amazing to me that guys like you that rightfully b****ed and moaned about the offense last year want to return to that crap. Somebody has to have gravity to the basket or your spacing will go to sh*t. Now that he is starting to hit his layups and short jumpers more consistently you want to pull the plug, because he had a bad game (1 in a row).

 

breh hurting the team on offense. time to trade him + tari for kuper fleg + kairey (to match salaries)

 

After what I saw last night in the Cleveland game, and the Christmas Day Laker game, Tari is making it hard to think about changing anything for the moment. If you move Amen to SF I assume that means you move Reed to start, which I have been very supportive of, but after watching the Terror Twins activated I'm not sure I want to do much right now.

Sure, Amen occasionally dribbles into a crowd of defenders and falls down on his face, or is left alone to take a jumper from 5-6 feet showing all the confidence of a 2 day old foal, but most of the time he does ok.

Until Tari comes back to Earth, or hurts his leg again, I think you gotta go with the Terror Twins, Grim Reaper, Turkish Terminator, and "my name is Jeff".

 

Sengun has been inefficient for 2 seasons now. You can’t be a star offensive players who can’t score above league average efficiency.

 

Absolutely, playing with other good point of attack defenders should increase turnovers and also allow Amen to concede switches and move into help defender position and hunt rebounds.

His grab and go game is too good not to use it.

Just pass it off and move off ball when defense is back and set.

 

Some of Amen’s worse habits are returning with his 3-point shot. He just needs to be very disciplined in his game-to-game prep and trust the work. In the last few games, he’s been losing his form. That leads to terrible results.

It looks like Durant went in the gym to work on his 15-foot mid-range shot. He was much more patient to get to his spot and shoot over defenders and their antics.

Sengun and Amen need to find their comfort zone at 15-feet in the same way. Not everything needs to be a layup.