Sam Amick: Giannis probably on top of Rockets list

Amen in 4 years will be an all nba player and DPOY candidate. Players need time to develop or do you think SGA, Halliburton, Brunson, etc were dominating in year 2?

 

4 years from now they might be

 

So if they're gonna be that good why we even need Giannis?

 

So why we even need Giannis then? I rather pay our young guys than Giannis.

You cant talk both sides out of your mouth and say our guys are scrubs and we need old guys like Giannis to get it done and then somehow say our guys will be future superstars and will get it done when the old guys get washed.

KD is one thing cuz he only cost 1 young guy in Jalen Green to get moved but Giannis will mean gutting the roster cuz we wont have money to pay the rookie extensions.

 

Because they aren’t good enough right now but will be when Giannis is on the downslope

 

If you get Giannis they wont be there when Giannis is on the downslope. We already have KD if they really good enough KD is more than enough to win a title.

Part of trading is knowing when to stop look at PHX they traded the farm for KD ok. Instead of rolling with Cp3, Toumani Camara and Ayton the Suns went full r****d and brought in Beal and Nurkic. How did that work out? If they just stopped with KD they would have been contenders maybe even won the ring this year.

We brought KD to win now and supplement the 2nd seed in the West. No need to go all in and destroy even more of the team for short term gain.

 

I preached discounted stars for this reason and we got one of them. The other, Harden, could help us. Giannis is fools gold and his entire game is athleticism unlike Durant. He would gut our team in assets and likely declines sharply with injuries in the next couple of years. His talent set clashes with ours. How does he affect our rim chasers? There is only so much space and loose baskets available you would be trading buckets we already get than creating anything. Love the player but like AD he is a C masquerading as a 4 because he doesn’t like the low post physicality.

 

You’re keeping Amen, Tari, and Bari in this scenario and once Durant is off the books, you can give Amen his hopefully well deserved max.

I’m not necessarily advocating to go all in on Giannis. But for Sengun, Reed, Cam, and picks I’d definitely be tempted.

 

Definitely don't want Giannis now. We don't need him any more and it'd definitely take away a lot more of our youth. We good now, we got KD, we just need more minor tweaks now to cement us as contenders.