Amen Thompson is the Rockets' REAL franchise player

The last ten games, Amen has averaged 20/8/5 on a .62 TS%. Pretty darn solid. He’s also shot .5 from 3, but only on one attempt per game.

 

What people don't understand about Amen is that if you surround him with 4 shooters, he'll get you 8-10 FTA and 6+ assists. Go look into what kind of players are capable of that.

 

Amen is my hero

 

I know this is small sample size and low volume

But for the last 15 games, Amen has 33.3% 3FG%

 

lol. Keep hope alive!

 

LOL keep betting against a true competitor / winner

you act like Amen is just a front running loser chucker like JG

 

Honestly, I don't really care since Amen isn't paying my bills. Also, no need to be offended since I've said Amen is probably my favorite player on this team and have loved the dude since before we drafted him. So you can proudly wave his flag and defend him from all arrows targeting him - even the imaginary ones! Nobody is "betting against a true competitor/winner". lol

I'm more apt to saying the dude's never been a shooter and him shooting 33% on 6 made shots (2 of which came in the most-recent game - lol) across 15 games isn't proving a damn thing to me. I hope he becomes at least a 36% 3-point shooter on more than 1 or 2 attempts per game, though, because he'd be even more valuable. To this point, he knows he's not hitting them and has limited those attempts, which is also good.

As for me acting like Amen is "just a front running loser chucker like JG"? No idea where you got that from since I didn't even mention Green. Quit making up stuff. lol.

 

it's funny that so just you won't proven wrong, you set the bar so high for Amen at 36% 3p%

so you're disappointed with Devin Bookler, Derrick White, Grayson Allen, Lauri Markkanen, and Payton Pritchard this season too?

I for one will be ecstatic if Amen ends up being a 30% point shooter on at least 2 attempts per game by the end of this season. That's already something he can build upon and improve on for the next season.

 

Yeah, Amen doesn't need to be respected from the 3P line like Ant Edwards is. With all of his other talents, if he's just at a Draymond, Jimmy Butler level of 3P threat, he's immediately a top 15 / All-NBA caliber player.

 

Who said I was disappointed in Amen? I love him as a basketball player even if his 3 point shot is putrid. I'm only disappointed in his 3 point shot which hasn't improved in years. You seem to create stories of your own to argue. lol.

FYI - I chose 36% because that's about league average. It's not "so high", it's more like "so average". And... proven wrong about what? Are you making up arguments to argue again?

Here are the players you mentioned and their career 3pt shooting %ages and volume of attempts - they shouldn't be in this discussion of 3-pt shooting because most of them are having off years and still blowing Amen's shooting out of the water :

Devin Booker - 35.2% on 6 attempts
Derrick White - 36.1% on 5.6 attempts
Grayson Allen - 40.4% on 5.5 attempts
Lauri Markkanen - 37.0% on 6.9 attempts
Payton Pritchard - 39.1% on 5.1 attempts

Amen Thompson - 22.2% on 1.3 attempts

Pick some better examples next time.

Seems like 36% would be a good target to shoot for since it's the league average, but just for you - I'd be ecstatic if he could shoot 30%. Better?

 

That amounts to 0.4 3pt make (or 1.2 points) per game.

 

I really don't see him even playing the point guard spot right now - unless you consider the fact that he brings the ball across the time line point guard.

What I see is attacking in transition, if nothing is there give it to X Y or Z.

Playing the point guard spot comes with the added duty of running the offense, I just don't see that happening much.

Most of his assists come in transition or as hockey assists where he's the middle man in the chain of events.

 

you are watching a different game then the rest of us. If you don’t think Amen was initiating the offense more than any other Rocket last game, you have blinders on. Ime has instructed Amen to take the gloves off over the last ten games or so and his play is trending up. He does still have to defer to Durant and Sengun way more than he should, but that is a coaching issue. He or Reed should be initiating every time down the floor. This team does have a point guards problem and their names are Durant and Sengun.

 

While I agree with your statement, it's very hard to find a stretch 5 who's good on defense so Amen can play a C role on offense. Building around that is insanely difficult. Remember Westbrick and Bob Covington at the 5?

I'm down for some scenarios but I think we are screwed either way. We got unlucky with the ping pong balls and there's nothing you can do about that.