Houston Rockets are open to trading Alperen Sengun

That is too much to give. Not giving Alp, Reed, Bari and picks for Giannis. He’s not worth it.

Also, the remaining team would be complete dogshit outside of Amen. It would be a rebuild in 3 years

 

This made me dismiss this sourceless silliness:

…but the Bucks may be higher on a Jalen Green-based trade (depending on how they rate Green).

May be higher? Depending on how they rate Green?

 

Sorry, you’re wrong. But you know that already.

 

It’s going to cost more than that.
And all you’re left with is aging vets and Amen.
Green is an untradeable asset.

 

no i don’t. Those that usually argue with me are usually rabid Sengun fans. I don’t care for your posts ever as I never respond to them unless you come at me which you are attempting to do now. It’s funny you and your goons say these things about me when I consistently explain in depth what’s happening in games. And I cite examples along with what I know and data. I don’t just watch box scores or speak in generalities like many people here including you. And many have challenged me but fail. Im humble enough to say I don’t know everything since im not a professional coach unlike you and your filth.

 

As you have yet to explain anything like you and your boys always do. Just weak angry unoriginal emotional responses with no justification no analysis. It gets old. You’re lame

 

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dogshit? You mean the players that got us here in the first place wouldn’t be able to compete with an MVP and a better Amen?

 

I highly doubt it costs more than what I proposed. That’s five-to-six first round picks of value. Not only that, I don’t believe Jalen Green is a sunk cost around the league. There are rebuilding teams that would gamble they could fix him.

Also, the Rockets still would have Amen Thompson, either Tari Eason or Jabari Smith Jr., Reed Sheppard, Cam Whitmore, Jalen Green and five or six first-round picks between this June’s draft and the 2029 draft. That’s still plenty of young talent on the roster with picks to improve.

The Bucks aren’t getting a 22-year-old all-star in Sengun and an additional five first-round picks worth of value for Giannis alone.

 

Thing is though, if that price is Sengun, Bari, Cam and picks. That's not gutting the team. We'd be leaning heavily into being a running team, but our defense would likely get even better and Giannis alone probably does more than Sengun and Bari together. All we'd need to do then is upgrade Jalen and replace some of our bench with shooters. That's a contender. Hell, if he's not the star it might be a contender with Jalen if you bring him off the bench or use him as a 3rd option now he's a good defender.

FVV/Reed
Jalen
Amen/Brooks
Tari
Giannis

That's actually a decent core and we're the most athletic starting 5 in the league with Jalen, Amen and ****ing GIANNIS on there. You can't block all of them even if Jalen's a massive pussyhole b****made ho, you know? Then you just decide who of Holiday, Landale, Adams, Unc and Tate you want to keep, use the others and whatever other chaff we have for shooters. That's a contender, Giannis gives us a window, he's literally that good.

 

The more I think about it the more I hope we don't trade for Giannis....unless the Bucks are taking less than what I think we'd have to give up...

But I don't want to give up Alpi + another young player or two for Giannis. Mainly because I don't think that makes us a contender. I mostly like the makeup of the team and I really would just make a few tweaks vs bringing in a guy like Giannis who would require a lot of assets to get, and then for other moves to be made to build a real contender around him.

 

Jalen is a sunk asset.
Tari can’t play a whole season.

Fred is closer to retirement. Brooks is a solid role player but overpaid. Giannis has 3 years.

And no, that team isn’t the most athletic in the league. It’s not really more athletic than the current squad, and very minimal shooting.

 

In the last 2 seasons the bucks have been 49-33 and 48-34 in a conference that is regarded as the weaker conference.

Giannis is a good player, but his teams not even winning 50 games in a weak conference just makes me skeptical that he can make the Rockets a better team than they are now.

Sengun is 22 and going into year 5 where typically a lot of players start to show their full potential. Giannis is 30 you know what you get but you know who he needs to be surrounded by which is something the Rockets don't have. Sengun is going to make around 30 million Giannis is making over 50 million.

I am sorry but I am not willing to trade Sengun right now.

I know the Rockets will need to make a trade with some of their young guys at some point, but I don't think Giannis is that guy. The Rockets need to be really careful about their decisions, they need to set this team up for success for a long time, not a few years. Because I don't want to go back to those Silas rebuilding days .

 

Exactly

 

Name a starting 5 with more athleticism than Jalen, Amen, Giannis and Tari. We don't even need to include FVV, the 3 main ones there are athletic enough by themselves in truth.

 

Athleticism alone won't win you much in the post season.

 

A 2 x MVP, 1 x Finals MVP who puts up 30/11/6.5 will though lmao. Giannis isn't even known as a distributor and he gets more assists than the Senhub ever has. Seriously, there is no universe where you can say this team with Alpi is better than this team if we swap him for Giannis. Who are you trying to say the other players going out are, Kobe in disguise? lmao

 

This is what is so insane.

Milwaukee do all they can to put shooters around him. "JuSt TrAdE fOr GiAnNiS tHeN gEt ShOoTeRs".

But ff Durant had a sneaker a quarter an inch longer, Giannis would be in Harden conversations about being a loser. But the one championship apparently absolves every single other season of his career where he's come up short, not to mention the multiple blown multi-game playoff leads.

 

He is a good player, but his teams success in the last 2 years makes me skeptical. Alpi isn't better than Giannis right now but he has a chance to be. I would rather take that bet right now.

 

Alpe is what Hakeem was to Shaq.....a finesse player with footwork......

 

As talented as the roster would be on paper, I just don't understand how a lineup with Amen, Sengun, and Giannis can work on the floor together in today's NBA. There is just absolutely zero shooting. Like... maybe if the other two guys were prime Stephen Curry and Ray Allen, but that might be a stretch.