I don't think dilemma is the right word. A dilemma is if I want a double quarter pounder or a whopper. This choice is like would I rather some delicious juicy steak, or a rock that's covered in animal piss.
Dilemma? Sounds like another Jalen Green excuse to me. We must be up to 100+ excuses now why Jalen can't hoop.
OP seems to not be familiar with Jalens body of work and thinks hes a good player or something. Even if Alp didnt exist Jalen isnt a guy you keep around to build around. He sucks. Thats why not both. Theres no dilemma. Its simple. Alpi may be a guy keep as a cornerstone and Green definitely isnt. The end.
I don't really understand this unless it's pure trolling. It's not like these are two players that are uniquely incompatible like possibly if we had gotten Banchero and were trying to play him with Sengun. It's also not two players jostling for a singular spot like the DMO vs. Terrance Jones death match. Stone is right that the theoretical version of a good Jalen Green would work great with the roster. But Jalen at this point in his career stinks. The Jalen ride or die fans get annoyed at this circumstance in general and at folks who point this out (especially Sengun fans) so go after Sengun in return. Sengun is a good player with some legitimate questions around building a good playoff team with him as a cornerstone. Since Jalen being terrible has had an overall negative impact on the team and Sengun, the Sengun ride or die fans have more ire for Jalen.
Jalen is not even a player, a real, professional player, he does not have that gut, mentality. This comes from insticts, attitutes, it has nothing to do with his scoring. My idea does not change even if he scores 50 points..no chance, anyone saying Green is a player to build around is someone whether idiot or someone who is not Rockets fan, because loving your team means wishing all the best for your team, supporting your team in Hard times. Jalen showed no evidence to be "him". l am afraid we are on the verge of experience of Anthony Bennett experience-who in my opinion the the biggest bust of 2000's... Sad but True...
Lol. The only reason to mention Jalen and Alpi is the same sentence is because they play on the same team and were drafted the same year. One guy is a rising young prospect, the other is a bust who is apparently getting prickly about his role. Please no more with the Jalen Green experiment; 3 seasons is enough. Stone needs to prove that he can make good decisions. He can start by recouping some value for Jalen in a trade this offseason.
Would a reboot of Dumb and Dumber starring Jalen and Alpi be successful at the box office? This would be a documentary btw.
Jalen is here to stay, his trade value is negative zero so unless we're giving him up for 2nd round picks, he's probably gonna play out his rookie contract here. He had some value at the trade deadline when he was playing a tiny bit better for a short stretch of games but that's all tanked as soon as the deadline passed.
Maybe Stone just doesn’t renewed Green. Cost us nothing and we part ways with him. Green can catch on where every he fits in on a new contract that fits him as well. Stone has made a lot of good picks, too. Green out of sight and mind just makes Stone look even better.
There genuinely is no dilemma. Green could've rose to the occasion, then it would've still not been a dilemma because we'd have hit on 2 of our 4 picks after the first tank year (which it did look like we might've towards the end of last year) but he crumbled instead. So that's 1 of 4 that year. Bari's on the clock next year in all honesty, he's shown flashes but his big games aint **** compared to Jalen's big games across his first 2 years so we can't take that for granted either. Tari has this injury **** but hopefully we still hit there. Hopefully Amen or Cam hits because so far we're actually missing more than hitting on our draft picks from the first 2 years.
