So I’m guessing y'all are not ready to talk about Amen Thompson.

The reality is that we aren't really playing with a PG. This makes it difficult to defend us as a team. Our success has been because FVV is out, tbh.

 

You realize Mitchell had 12 pts prior to the 4rth quarter right?

Amen had 12/9/6/4 and the 3rd highest plus minus and you really asking what he brings? lol

 

God Bless America, Mr Pastor.

No, I am not ready to talk about Amen Thompson.

Why would I be?

 

it is not yet time...

 

I heard you from here

 

I don’t disagree with really anything you’ve said, but I don’t think it’s as big a thing as you’re making it right now. What I saw last night in the Cleveland game was about as close to ‘positionless basketball’ as I remember seeing. I’ve also believed that to ask him to take the role of primary handler is to reduce him and take away from what has made him last years national storyline for the Rockets. But it’s early and Reed is still getting up to speed. So Senhub will lead right now and by the end of the season I fully expect us to see Amen 2.0. Devastating athleticism with handles, a more confident shot, and a better intuition for breaking defenses. That’s my hope anyway.

 

It is time to start Reed at PG and move Amen back to what he does best which is reeking havoc on both ends of the court. He is much better off-ball where he can be the Tasmanian Devil he was last year.

 

He’s not a PG. He’s a guy who can play some point, but he’s not a PG. I’m not at all worried about him, but I do think he would be better in his old role.

 

We're gonna be soooo good once Reed's ready to start, and Amen goes back to where he was. It's just for awhile.

 

Dude, chill. Maybe he won’t be our future PG, but fostering the ability to be a point-forward will be incredible for him going forward. And I mean, it hasn’t exactly been a disaster - we’re 10-3 and Amen is averaging 17/6/5 with only 2 TO a game (the same as his career average despite handling the ball way more). Y’all realize he’s 22, right? 22.

 

bingo. If anything I'm impressed. Able to just plug in and play at that level? Ain't worried 'bout nothin. Not right now at least.

 

Amen will be fine if he can give up the PG nonsense and go back to what he's good at.

Imo it's similar to Dwight Howard trying to be a back to the basket post player. If Amen clings to the delusion like Howard did, it'll hurt his career. If instead he gives up the PG fantasy and goes back to playing to his strengths, he's a star in the making.

 

Could've gone in the "Overreactions" thread

 

I've been saying for a long while now that Amen's ceiling is Shawn Marion/Andre Iguodala - a high-level starter capable of making a few all-star teams and being a 3rd banana on a championship team. But people here treat him like the second coming of LeBron and completely untouchable. People swoon over these games where he packs the box score, but they just make me think of Westbrook - an immense physical talent that you can't build a contender around.

 

Amen having a Marion/Iguodala career wouldn’t be too bad. They were both great. But saying they are his “ceiling” is ridiculous. Marion never made an All Defense team. Iguodala didn’t make All Defense first team until his 30s. Amen made All Defense First Team at 21.

 

Succinct and correct.

 

Mostly agree, Amen is better off the ball.

But, don’t care we are 10-3 while still developing chemistry.

DD

 

"Swoon," hardly. "Second coming of LeBron," well, hyperbole, okay.
But the Rockets would be stupid to trade him. (And they won't.)
His numbers haven't popped off the page "All-Star style" so far, even though he's played very well. Our team added KD and lost our starting point guard, so the dynamics shifted around Amen. So they've employed him as a Swiss army knife.
If we somehow acquire a point guard before the trade deadline, you'd likely see that first team all defense dude again.