Anyone that thinks Jabari is a good athlete and good defender should watch Rasheer Fleming. He looks exactly the same but at 1.5x speed.
And when he does, it won't be the max y'all were guaranteeing, because as I told y'all, he can't shoot.
Yes, I’m sure when Amen gets $40 million AVV rather than $50m he’ll be crying all the way to the bank. lol what a dorky thing to brag about.
What relevance does any of that have to the topic? We're talking about y'all dickriders spending months guaranteeing a max and calling me and others idiots for telling you you're dead wrong. Next deflection, or do you wanna just admit you were wrong and should probably wind your neck in?
I can’t ever remember saying Amen would get a max, only that he deserves near max. But why would I or anyone complain if he signed for less? The voices in your head are conversing again.
This isn't entirely about whether Amen has a jump shot. He wont get the max because there isn't a team who can easily offer him the max. The new CBA has basically impacted the market where the league is going through a reset of contract management and most teams are not in a financial space to be able to tempt Amen with much without moving significant assets to make it happen....and to be honest, Amen isn't yet a superstar - no one is going to pay him as though he is one and hope for him to turn around because no one has that kind of money laying around. You may be right that some teams may be willing to move those assets for a version of Amen who could shoot but this ultimately a supply and demand issue and right now. We went from 15-20 max deals in the NBA in the 2010s-2015s to nearly 40 now after the new TV deal caused a spike in max contracts to be handed out in 2016. The number of max deals has slowed since the new CBA was introduced since it's effectively a type of hard cap and now I suspect the league is recalibrating and are only handing out max deals to proven stars - not guys who could one day be one(like Amen).....but hey - a broken clock is right at least twice a day!
Watching him on the court is a little painful to my eyes. Maybe I'm being too judgemental, and I can admit that I can be that way, but he seems kinda like he's floundering around out there. Glad he's statistically doing better than my eyes tell me but I'm still just having a hard time seeing him cracking the rotation. If he's good enough though then good.
To me, Isaiah Crawford looks much smoother on the court this year than last. Much less floundering. In fact, on offense, Crawford looks pretty ok when he's playing with Bruce Thornton, who can set him up. Most depth charts list him as a PF, and that's probably Crawford's best position, but he's going to struggle with strength and overall fight if you match him up on most NBA PFs. It's not as though you should be asking Crawford to play with his back to the basket and score. And he doesn't really have the dribble-drive game to create separation. He's in the right spots, gives fine effort, and has a reasonable (but not great) shot as a floor-spacer. What a good comp? A poor-man's Jason Hart? He gives the Rockets more than Tate could, but that isn't saying much.
