Amen Extension

Let me know when Hartenstein makes 5 threes in a game.

 

Hart averaged .1 3PAs per game this year and didn’t make a single three. Not. A. Single. Three.

God Rockets fans say some really dumb stuff sometimes.

 

One thing that baffles me with regard to Amen’s shooting is that he has made huge strides from the FT line. He went from .684 on 3.6 FTAs last season to .776 on almost 5 FTAs - that’s a dramatic improvement. Generally, I think there’s a pretty strong tie between FT shooting and 3 point shooting in that I have greater confidence in a player developing a deep shot if he’s good from the line. Amen seemingly is bucking that trend.

 

It's a confidence thing. If he just became a better 18ft shooter like Derozan, he would be all nba

 

and so amen can be the anti thesis of that correlation so far.

look at his 3 point form over the years.

even sengun’s form is more promising.

 

Sengun has a weird hitch in his release, you can really see it on his free throws from the backboard cameras. He throws a little screwball, but he also lofts it way more than Amen does, so he actually gives the ball a chance to go in. Amen seems like he's removed the hitch, but he throws passes at the rim instead of offering any loft at all. He can get away with it on his middy but if the free throw is to correlate to range, he's got to put some arc in there. He's walking a tightrope with it currently and falling off too much to continue without revision. I've noticed he's on line quite regularly, just catching too much rim because he's just passing it to the rim.

To be completely honest, if Amen continued improving his handle I think that would make him more effective than a 35% 3 pointer. He flashes to the paint so easily, if he had a bag of counters when he gets there or increased his ability to drive and kick I believe the impact is higher than him suddenly going 1/3 from distance instead of 1/4.

 

Id rather Amen go 2/6 on threes than 1/4

 

I agree with this. Amen has very good form. even his three-point form improved this year, especially from the corner. Sengun, definitely has a hitch and the form is inconsistent. I think the odds are much more likely for Amen to improve more.

 

Idk about untouchable, but Amen is definitely the best asset the Rockets currently have and it isn’t even close

 

As far as I'm concerned, he's untouchable.

 

that would be a good contract imo.

 

Thats a contract based on potential, not merit.

Amen need to keep improving to justify it,

5 years 150 would’ve been my offer

 

If the Rockets could get this deal they will jump on it. We’ll see.

 

And everyone would laugh at that offer and assume its a joke.

 

If we can get him to sign for ~23% of the cap then that would be a good contract for the Rockets.

 

Not seeing where Keith Smith said that. Was it in the Front Office podcast or is this one of those so and so said this when they didn't, but gets aggregated by all the aggregation sites?

Seems low.

 

Click one link and it takes you to another link where it takes you to another link where it takes you to one more link where it might have been said.

https://www.spotrac.com/news/_/id/3...ookie-scale-extension-updates-and-projections