Of course he has peaked. The dude is 30 years old. You don't expect someone at that age to still improve significantly. Whether last season was the beginning of decline or just a bad year remains to be seen. In fact, he also had a bad shooting season before joining the Rockets, which was after his all star season. Then he bounced back to a good shooting season with us. So it seems that FVV is very inconsistent year over year. You don't know which version of him shows up next season. You don't know which version of him shows up next GAME.
To give people some point of reference, here's a list of FA's and their roughly expected contract AAV's this summer, sourced from the Bobby Marks and Yossi Gozlans of the world. James Harden (All-NBA this year): $35M-$40M Julius Randle: $31M PO opt-in Myles Turner: $30-35M Cam Thomas: $20-25M Naz Reid: $18-20M Nickeil Alexander Walker: $14M NTMLE Ty Jerome: $14M NTMLE Bobby Portis: $13M PO opt-in Dorian Finney Smith: $14-16M Dennis Schroder: $9M RMLE D'Angelo Russell: $6M TMLE Malcolm Brogdon: Vet min Tyus Jones: Vet min Now, look at this list and look at 2024-25 Fred VanVleet. 14/5/3 on 37/34/81. You're going to tell me FVV slots into this group at $33M AAV? 2x Naz Reid? 2.5x Nickeil Alexander Walker? 4x Dennis Schroder? 10x Brogdon and Jones? I don't even like every one of those players so much, but let's be real about the market here.
It's funny how Cavs want to get rid of Garland, a 40% career 3pt shooter because he makes 39m/year. I'd gladly swap the two players if it meant we had to pay Garland 39M/year.
Jak is bad on D and a worse shooter than Green (currently). Amen being an offball guy limits him a lot, it just makes him a worse version of Mobley imo. He also cant shoot 3s so whats the value in that? Amen must be an on ball guy if he is ever gonna be one of the Rox best players.
