You guys are so funny, you claim Amen is the future superstar then are willing to shove him to the back of the bus behind Durant, Booker and (you need interior scoring so) Alpi? You believe in Amen so much you're willing to make him the 4th option? Just a set up guy and dirty work guy for the others? Setting screens, grabbing rebounds and cutting - that's your future superstar in year 3? F that. I'm not interested in a starting lineup that doesn't FEATURE Amen Thompson at PG or as a wing next season surrounded by guys who can catch and shoot. Surround him with shooters that will make space FOR HIM. Don't surround him with guys that need Amen to be their Bruce Bowen. That's a waste of Amen Thompson. We've already seen what happens when you surround a younger KD and Booker with 3 players who are forced into weird roles. The 3 guys around them have to complement them. There's not a lot of ways to do that. It's very simple. That team cannot work without a rim runner and 2 elite 3&D players (one big one and one small one specifically). Yes, even if you're a shooter, when you get double teams you need shooters around you (surprise). Like the Suns we will have none of those things after the trade. Nurkic was a negative because he's not a vertical threat nor a spacing threat (sound familiar?) so he was just walking around and rebounding. Beal had no role out there cause why give him the ball when KD and Booker are dominating from the wing? KD, Grayson Allen and Booker shot 42% on 17+ 3PA and it didn't matter. They torched teams from mid range and it didn't matter. They sucked ass. You really want to force Sengun to be Jarrett Allen and Amen to be OG Anunoby? Their impact will halve instantly. At least just getting Booker makes sense. Getting KD and Booker on a team with Alpi and Sengun is going to end up in the millionth time that a team ends a season with that repetitive lesson "there's only one f*cking ball, what did you think would happen?". That's an experiment that always fails. Booker will be available so cheap in 2 years and (spoiler alert) you won't want him. Just let him sign that extension with Phoenix and see what happens. They have to go through a re-tooling season and his value is going to drop further while he gets older and way more expensive. This asset is about to nosedive and we're not going to be the team that takes that risk. Glad to hear the Suns are approaching us about KD. Going down exactly as I expected, Durant is not going to cost anywhere near what everyone thought. Also let's be honest, the Suns are not trading Booker. He has 2 years left on his contract, they don't have to sign him to an extension if they plan to trade him, in fact they would probably get a better return if they don't extend him at that insane price.
There are only about 10 guys on this site that understand this. It is nice to see a rational explanation of the situation in Phoenix and on the Rockets.
