Giannis Trade Package: Prioritizing a Picks or Players Package

LOL, he's not "my guy"....he just happens to be the best player on the team. If you can't see that, you are likely blinded by some kind of bias, I'll let you sort that out with your therapist, there's no reason for us to discuss it further here.

Sengun and Amen are untouchables, everyone else is up for grabs.

 

Let’s not kid ourselves. Sengun’s clearly your guy and there's nothing wrong with that. Relax.

But if the Rockets make a play for Giannis, you’re saying Sengun’s totally off limits, like, no trade talk at all because he’s untouchable?

 

So you're doing to double down on dumb simply because you have some weird bias that blinds you to the obvious? Fair enough. Whatever you have to tell yourself I guess.

Ignoring your foolishness, yes, I'm saying that Sengun and Amen, the 22-year-old best players on the team, are completely off limits. Even for an over 30 freak athlete nearing the end of his career. It would be sacrificing the next decade for a very low odds chance at a few good seasons from a guy that doesn't fit with the current team at all.

Giannis needs shooters around him....the Rockets don't have any that Ime allows to play. You'd have to basically completely gut the team to get one that Giannis could play with.

 

So if a trustworthy source drops the bomb that Alperen Sengun is actually on the table in a trade for Giannis, you’re gonna have to own up and admit you were completely off the mark. No two ways about it.

 

Anything could happen. The Rockets could trade BOTH Amen and Sengun for Tyler Herro, it would just mean that they are incredibly stupid.

They also have a history of unfathomably stupid decisions when you look at how they drafted Jalen over Mobley.

I guess it's best saying that Sengun and Amen SHOULD be untouchable if they have fully functional brains.

If the Rockets do something stupid, it won't mean that I was off the mark, it'll just mean they did something stupid.

Now if they do something stupid and it works out and they win a championship within the 3 or 4 seasons Gianis is still an NBA caliber player and the players they trade are terrible, sure I'll admit I was off the mark

Where would the Pacers be right now if the Kings weren't unfathomably stupid?

 

So now you’re walking it back. Not saying Sengun is untouchable. Just that, in your basketball worldview, he should be. Big difference.

Meanwhile, here’s what we are seeing from reporters around the league, not fan forums. Amen Thompson? Untouchable. The Rockets have made that clear. But Sengun? Jalen Green? Not in that category. Not by their standards.

Which tells us something simple: you’ve got a guy. You like him. You believe in him. And if the Rockets deal him, you’ll be out there with a torch and a rant. But that’s personal conviction, not organizational insight.

So let’s see how this offseason shakes out. Because right now, it feels like your take lives in its own little universe, not the one the Rockets or the rest of the NBA are operating in.

 

It's not really walking anything back, it's clarifying what I was always saying. There have been rumors that Sengun and Amen are off limits and those rumors make sense because those are by far the best, most valuable players on the roster and 2 of the best young players in the entire league.

Now when it comes to the Rockets FO, I don't put much faith in them, so of course it's possible they do something really stupid. You are CLEARLY hoping the Rockets do something stupid due to some kind of weird bias against the best player on the Rockets roster that you really should talk to someone about.... preferably someone not here and someone who does it professionally.

Suggesting that a 22-year-old All Star and a 22-year-old All Defense first team players are off limits is about as normal a take as there is. Completely non-controversial to anyone with a fully functional brain. The fact that you disagree, or that you are hoping that isn't the case, suggests that you have some issues to work through that I'm not really interested to get into here.

Good luck.

 

I love Sengun and think he and Amen can be built around. With that said, I would move Sengun in a trade for Giannis.

 

I gave you the benefit of doubt. You are for sure an alt.
Good troll job

 

No. I'm not.

 

You are.
It’s ok though, easy enough to figure it out. Just sad, pathetic behavior.

 

No, I'm not.

If someone says something about Sengun that his fans like you don't like, they don’t argue. They just attack. Discredit the author, question the motives, dismiss the whole thing. Every time. It's not just predictable, it's exhausting.

 

You are.

Just the same old tired rhetoric from the Sengun only haters, aka non-rocket fans.

 

I'm not, but go ahead, put me in your little mental box. Tape it shut. Toss it on the shelf. I’m fine with that.

But here’s the thing. Sengun fans? Many of them here, like you, got a pattern. They don’t want a conversation, they want a choir, and if you’re not singing the same tune, they come for you.

 

The irony is, the majority of your posts are to trade our best player, Alp.
So who really doesn’t want a conversation?

Just say you don’t like his archetype and move on. But any basketball reason to not like him is dumb, unless of course you aren’t a rockets fan.
Which seems to be the case

 

It's Rockets fans you have a problem with my guy.

You have a weird obsession with wanting the best player on the team gone for absolutely no reason, and that puts you at odds with Rockets fans.

If you were a Rockets fan, you'd understand.

 

So now the move is to say I’m not a Rockets fan? That’s creative.

Let’s clear this up. Sengun is a good player but he isn’t the best player on the team. He’s not untouchable. I know, that probably stings to read. But that’s not hate, that’s just calling it how it is. The problem isn’t what I’m saying but rather how hard you’ve fallen for the guy and you’re not hearing logic. You’re hearing an attack on your favorite character in the story.

But the story isn’t about Sengun. It’s about Amen Thompson now. He’s the one, both your best player and the one you don’t put on the trade block.

So let me ask you what I once asked Bobbythegreat right before the wheels came off for him. If Sengun’s name pops up in trade talks for Giannis, are you willing to admit you are overestimating the security of his footing with the Houston Rockets? Because if Sengun really is the guy, your star, your cornerstone, the untouchable franchise player, then there’s no way his name even enters that conversation. Right?

 

Alp is without a doubt the best player on the team. That isn’t debatable.
Amen is my favorite player on the team. But he still has more to prove before he’s the top guy.
Both are cornerstones and untouchable outside of maybe 3 young superstars.

Neither are on trading block, there’s reports both are untouchable. You just want to go with whatever national rhetoric you hear that supports your hate for Alp

 

"supports your hate for Alp"

You need this to be about 'hate'. That’s the only way you can make sense of what I’m saying. But the thing is I’m not hating. I’m just laying out the facts. Alperen is not untouchable.

So let’s play it forward. Let’s say the Giannis trade talk heats up. And let’s say Alperen Sengun gets floated as part of that package to Milwaukee. If that happens, you’re going to owe an apology because he's not untouchable.

Now, I don’t expect you to give it. I know how this goes. But at that moment, when the trade buzz gets real, you’ll know like we’ll all know, that what you called 'hate' was just the truth knocking at your door.

 

I don’t need this to be about anything. You’re a typical alt account.
Your viewpoints are well documented and predictable.

Amen and Alp will be floated for Giannis. That doesn’t mean they aren’t untouchable.