My feeling is with 4, the front office will almost certainly want to hit a single or double rather than swing for the fences. Amen to me, even though I'm higher than him than most here it seems, is a swing for the fences in alot of ways. Especially if you view him as a point guard. Seems like he'd probably end up with the TyTy treatment, and that's not something you want to show with the #4 pick. Right now the kind of prospect that'll likely crack the rotation is someone who can defend, and shoot 3's now. High BBIQ. Solid rotation player. Not something you typically see that high in the draft, but right now I think the Rockets are a team that'll probably go for that type of player if they keep the pick. Taylor Hendricks to me seems to check alot of boxes for a player that I think could crack the rotation now, and do alot of the things they were hoping Jabari could do right away that he didn't necessarily do. Adding in Hendrix to a Sengun/Jabari 3 big rotation could make some sense.
The Amen delusion is rotting the brains of posters here buying into the media fud surrounding these failed prospects. There is really no case for Amen to be taken in the lotto based on his failed high school ranking (30+ 4 star), his uninspired production in the OTE, the failure of top OTE prospects/producers in make the league while putting up better stats (Barlowe and Montero both failing to make the league), a mysterious media campaign pushing the twin to become top 5 prospects.
If Stone takes Amen at 4 I will likely lose all confidence in the Rockets as an organization. Amen Thompson simply cannot be your reward for tanking an entire season. I mean it's really just that simple. I don't mind a project normally, but this team has had enough of them, and Thompson looks like the biggest gamble I've seen at the top of an NBA draft in a while.
Jabari was supposed to be the most nba ready player in that draft but he looked like a G League player 80% of the season. If he wasn't the 3rd overall pick they were 100% gonna send him to the g-league. Jalen looked pretty bad in his rookie season. These two kids were far more NBA ready than Amen is atm. If we draft Amen get ready for a fu*king nightmare of a season. He will look like that bear in Arlington Texas-Polar bear meme. His sophmore season won't be much better and if his shooting doesn't show any signs of improvement by the end of 2nd year don't get your hopes up for the 3rd season. This kid isn't even a project, he's an unfinished product. He's like the Cyberpunk game. He will glitch, stutter on the court, he will be unplayable and we will not be able get our refund.
We absolutely do not take Amen. The Rockets pull a ransom, whilst moving down a couple of spots for Walker.
Try again in 6 months when Amen gets demote to G-League permanently. Drafting him (along with the Pistons, probably the dumbest franchise in the league) doesn't show anything. We already know media fud pushed these failures up high in the draft.
Amen will have Ime and his staff versus the past few season those rookies had Silas. That will play a factor too. Rookies are rookies that have to be developed but I wouldn't be too negative or too positive right now.
Where do you hear this Jabari is the most NBA ready? Banchero is the most NBA ready. He already got NBA PF body. Jabari was skinny. He had the most highest ceiling with his shooting, defense, and length.
