The "franchise player" debate has been settled. It's Amen.

Os Trigonum · Aug 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM

cumutk said: ↑

Alperen Sengun is this teams only powerhouse and franchise player, Amen is a great defender and a great hustler,
:but first of all he has to become an impact player and make play off stats near to Sengun, become allstar, become his national teams prime superstar to be cemented as franchise player...
Being a great defender but having one sided and limited offense does not make you franchise player.
He is great, but Sengun is another level...
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deserves its own franchise player thread

hakeemthagreat · Aug 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM

bustamove said: ↑

Thanks to Alpi and Amen

And go follow the suns
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Did Alpi & Amen draft themselves?

hakeemthagreat · Aug 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM

don grahamleone said: ↑

I liked our seed last year, it felt good after the other years under Stone. I’m all about our upward trend.
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You liked our seed? We were 2nd in a brutal WC. Did this roster assimilate itself?

Rokman · Aug 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM

OremLK said: ↑

If we have one at all, it's going to be him. He has the attitude. He has the intelligence. He has has the physical talent. The only thing missing is the jump shot, and that has improved by leaps and bounds this season. It will continue to improve.

I love Sengun's game, but I think this season has made it clear that his ceiling is more like a #2 guy on a championship team (and even then it needs to be a very specific roster for him to fit). He just finished his 4th season, and his jump shot and free throw percentage showed no sign of improvement, and he needs them to improve if he wants to be a superstar. Look, there's still a chance with him, but the odds have gotten so low I feel comfortable making the following statement: He's not going to be Jokic. At best, he will be a poor man's version, a borderline All-NBA player.

Jalen Green just doesn't have it. I'm sorry, but I'm now 99.5% certain he's destined to bounce back and forth between starter and bench player the rest of his career. I'm not saying he's a bad player--he clearly belongs in an NBA rotation. But he isn't going to be what we hoped. If he would gracefully accept a bench role with this team I would happily keep him around, but I wonder whether that will be possible at this point.

Amen though. What a revelation. He just gets better and better, almost on a game-by-game basis. He's already one of the best five defensive players in the NBA, and he flashes the ability to take over games on offense. He almost willed us to a victory in game 7, until he tweaked his calf and had to be taken out of the game.

He's the best we're going to get. Time to start building around him.
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Amen!

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