Why are the Rockets persistent on bringing FVV back?

Everyone loves Ime.

Amen is the Rockets future 1 starting now.

Ime don't play that.

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Amen acolytes are out for blood!

 

The only way the Rockets pick-up Fred's team option is to trade for a star
Otherwise he's coming back probably closer to Dillon's salary on a longer term

 

Amen isn't a guard.

 

Amen is not a PG, he is a Point Forward, but you put him with the ball and have Reed as the PG outside 3pt shooter and ancillary ball handler and this team takes off.

FVV is in the way.

DD

 

Does anyone think Amen could be Shai like with his size if we push and develop for it?

 

Leave well enough alone and let Amen continue to thrive as a wing. Reed’s supposed to be our future PG. Extend Fred while letting Reed continue to be his backup. Hopefully a year or two from now Reed will be ready to be lead PG and we can trade Fred to another team in need of a PG for a nice return.

 

Nope, completely different type of player. Shai is a shooting savant, Amen is an athletic monster, there's almost zero comparison in their games.

 

depends on how long it would take for him to develop a deadly middy… and floater

 

The likelihood of him playing elsewhere is slim because there is no money available. Teams can offer the MLE or he can sign with the Rockets for $20M a year.

 

Nope, he can't be Shaq like either.

He's in no way similar to those players.

A better possible comparison is like a Kahwi-Jimmy Butler hybrid as a ceiling

 

Whoever is correcting the clickbait thread titles is a bonafide legend tbh, lmao.

 

You people just don’t get it. He’ll be back for 40-45 million a year. He’s not 37 years old and is a key player to Udoka. He has not lost any value since he was signed why would he and his agent take a paycut. If you want FVV back then accept it will cost 40+.

 

Fred's value to the org is in quarterbacking the offense and defense because the young guys don't have enough experience thinking through the game in the way Fred does. He knows where everyone should be, what the bad matchups are, and is able to see through other team's sets. His personal on court performance has declined the last few years - but there is still very real value he still brings to every lineup he is in.

I would still like him with the team on a much lower financial figure, but I would like to see us cut his minutes down year over year and start to force his teammates to do what he does so we aren't using him as a crutch....but I think he still has tremendous value "helping" our young guys be in the right spots and telling them how to play screens as an on court coach. This is the type of stuff you get from vets that take 6/7 years for young players to develop.

The only way around that is get a better version of Fred(and spend a lot of money) OR break up our young guys to have a better mix of vets and younger players but him and DB and Adams are good in game managers when they might be playing next 3 or 4 other guys with less than 5 years of experience.

 

Not all hero's wear capes

 

Amen at PG gotta be getting amplified by bots because ain’t no way more than 5 people actually think he’s a serious starting PG

 

Seriously... LOL'd upon reading this... sad part, you might be right as rain

 

If Reed panned out year 1, they wouldn’t have to.

 

Please show me where the market for FVV is.