I'm sure there's something to be said about Jalen here. Something something more experience = being better. Jalen fans sure won't want to hear it though.
Can Amen find more ways to contribute on the defensive glass? He has 16 offensive rebounds in 5 games (good) but only 16 defensive rebounds. When the starters are in, we can’t count on only Alpi to rebound. Jalen/Fred/Brooks are all prone to 1-rebound games.
Well he's defending Curry, so he's on the perimeter, can't get many defensive boards like that. Come on man common sense
To me, last night was a damn near perfect Amen Thompson basketball game. An efficient 20 - 25 points, a ton of stocks, and locked down the other team's best player. Beautiful basketball.
If Amen has his mojo back, we have a chance to pull this out. Still very unlikely, but we do have a chance. Amen really was not himself to start these playoffs and may be the main reason we are in the hole we are in. He is still our best chance at a superstar and is poised to be the alpha on this team.
When Amen is locking down perimeter players on defense, I prefer Jabari over Brooks because we need more defensive rebounding.
Bari needs to play more period in this series. Dillon has been pretty good too though. He can actually shoot and make free throws. I would play less Jalen / Fred to get more Bari minutes out of the rotation
Love to see it. He's always ready to throw down. Kid is smart, obsessed with basketball, has that competitive fire, and highly driven to succeed. That's a winning combination when you put it in a plus-wingspan, 6'7" athletic phenom.
A few months ago, Ausar said that Amen is very calm while playing NBA basketball but he's really very fiery.
Exactly. Seems like a player we've always been missing. Mad max intensity (maybe not that extreme but you get my point lol).
This innocent child named "Amen" has been turned to the ranks of demons by Ime. You know you're on some other level of possession when it takes Dillon Brooks to stop you from going crazy and doing something stupid. LOL.
It looked like Udoka went away from Smith in Game 5. He relied more on smaller guys (outside of Sengun and Adams) but I think the speed of the game picked up, to the Rockets' advantage. I'd expect this to be the case in Game 6 as well.
