What's your opinion & how will it affect your opinion on our offseason. Honestly I think he's a forward for the foreseeable future. His handle needs work before he can take on PG duties. I think we really need to look at getting some PGs in esp as FVV only has the one year left & we are unlikely to extend him. I'd love to do a Uncle Jeff for Gary Payton trade (for example) which I think works for both teams (Jeff is a team option, GSW are going to be well in the luxury tax) I do like Reed & he appears a good fit with our team. Plus a guy on MLE, a vet min & our 2nd Rd pick we gotta stash in Europe.
Forward currently, unless he comes back massively developed over the summer. Green arguably has more guard skills than Amen, and is definitely significantly better at breaking down the D for a kick out off the dribble. Now, that's not actually a pro-Green comment, Green is clearly a 2 guard not a point, so it's not good that he's better suited than our supposed PG draft pick. However, I'm not too worried that Amen will get there, it might not be til year 3-4 for him to be a full-time PG rather than a point forward or secondary distributor, and I also don't think he's anywhere near the transcendent superstar prospect he's tipped as. But I have no worries. I think his floor is a solid starter at the point and his ceiling is an all-star, maybe top 4-5 at his position at his absolute peak rather than top 1-2.
shaky handle and no jump shot, but people want to put him at PG…make it make sense he’s an athletic defensive wing with some playmaking ability
Amen can run backup point, he’s basically a hybrid point-forward. Amen and Reed would work together as a backcourt for instance.
If he can shoot then he's basically play every position except center. If he can't shoot but he develops in all other areas, then you try him as lead guard and emulate Ben Simmons or Westbrook. If he can do neither, then he's basically backup and it doesn't matter much which position he plays.
Today, he's offensively a C. Defensively he can guard 1-4. Ideally, he should be paired with a stretch 5 to flourish and be able to close games. Today's league doesn't operate with traditional PGs anymore, it's just on-ball stars and off-ball role players. For him to play on the ball he has to develop into a consistent scorer with a minimum of a deadly mid-range shot (think Jimmy Butler). It's possible, but it's going to take a lot of work. Today he's already shown he's an elite role player, just with a very unfortunate mold that requires a very specific stretch big in order to have proper offensive spacing and size on defense.
2 to 1 A2T as a nervous rookie. He is going to be a PG, I promise you. You will not be able to take the ball out of his hands he will be so dominant. When Fred leaves, it is Amen's team. Alperen Thompson will be there too...
Can’t wait for 20 games into the season all these critics going “uhhhh how could I have known wow he improved over one summer who could’ve guessed??” You. You could have guessed. You can consciously realize the first half of the season our offense was cringey slow, paint was packed, everyone knows which play we’re running, no elite shooters around him. Just such a predictable offense that even if you brought Kyrie Irving here there would be ten times more opponents swiping at the ball on the way to the rim and protecting the rim. Opponents would gladly sag off Amen so forcing your way to the rim gets mediocre results. In the end we moved him effectively to the C position. Opponents were letting their rim protector sag off Amen. So now JJJ can keep Amen in check while also confronting Jalen at the rim. We didn’t get to see Amen play PG when we started playing with more pace and space. He’s going to easily fill those 18 minutes at backup PG next season. By the end of the season, we’re going to start discussing whether it’s a good idea to re-sign FVV cheaper as a backup. He’s going to be earning his PG stripes next season, I’m pretty sure of it. Can’t wait to see it.
Jerami Grant keeps coming up when talking about Marion obviously Jerami is likely never going to have that kind of stacked team. Ironically Marion won with Dallas and not with Phoenix.
