The irony is all these "____ is our franchise player" threads are completely worthless because the term "franchise player" doesn't really mean anything. A team gets good, then people look at that team's best few players and starts debating who is the franchise player which is really short hand for "who do we want to invest most of our money on"....or in our case the team is bad and to waste time, we start arguing over who might one day become our franchise player....you know if we ever got good...but we are not good now and we are still several years away from having to commit to significant money that we can't trade as needed. ...but here is the thing - we need to do everything in our power as a team to make each player on this team the best version of themselves as possible -that's our only goal right now. We only need to worry about "franchise player" when we have to start paying guys and we need to make trade off discussions about where to invest money in our roster. In reality we can extent guys like Sengun and Green without making that decision because even if we decide they aren't our "future" - they will likely be valuable trade assets if nothing else - after all, not everyone is looking for a franchise player and maybe someone sees Sengun(for example) as the perfect complement to THEIR franchise player or for their offensive system. Meanwhile we should be asking ourselves what it would take to make ______ our franchise player so we can be more focused on what things (for example), Jabari should be working on and what things the team should be providing for him and what skills coaches we need working with him, etc....and when it's time to offer Jabari his first big contract THEN we can asses - who is the most valuable to this team - Jabari, Sengun, Jabari, Tari, etc....
How about we don't need one? The collaboration of players we have now that can play as a team with the positions assigned correctly by Ime is good enough to get into the playoffs soon and win that championship in the near future.
This reminds me of when John Wall was on that podcast trashing the rockets. He mentioned how surprised he was to hear he was getting traded because he was the "franchise player". Which, maybe that was true but who cares about the franchise player on a terrible team. The franchise player for the worst of the last 3 years is at best irrelevant and at worst non existent. It's like saying who's the best dog walker in the park. What does it matter if they're all picking up dogshit?
Why do you think there is a disconnect between your take and the take of NBA analysts who believe the Rockets have one of the best young group of players in the league? I know. You aren't good with context: 1. there isn't a single young potential franchise player on this team that has been on the team for 3 years except if you consider KPJ one of those potential young franchise players. That alone should show you the state of the current roster and how much turnaround there is. There isn't a single player on this team that was here 4 seasons ago. 2. The average age of the Rockets 9 man rotation last year was younger than the average age of the 9 man rotation of the UofH D1 basketball team. 3. 19-21 year olds hardly ever contribute to winning unless it's some all time goat potential player like Lebron or Luka. Do you know who the NBA player is who has the lowest +/- in league history for their first two years: Kevin Durant.
I think Jalen, Alpi, Jabari, and Amen all have chances to become one. You can see the tweaks that they need to make to reach that level. It's really a shame that Silas just let the team do whatever the hell they wanted for 2 years without any real direction. We're gonna know a lot more about Jalen and Alpi in the next 6 months than we did in the last 2 years.
Jalen Green is. He's our most talented player & still early 20s. He just needs to continue to grow & work on his game
I don't have an answer to that at this point in time. It's good that we have several players that could be.
Don't forget to add Nash and Dirk for always running their fingers through their hair all game, or maybe they were just making sure it stayed out of their eyes Also don't forget Jordan who was said to be full of himself for wearing gold chains in all star week events Sports entertainment is about both brand/image and showcasing your game on the court Some athletes balance it out while others choose more % of one over drone other, Green seems to be trying to balance both early on but I feel he is more about ballin out than being more about his image, but two years is too early to actually tell because everything happens fast with young marketable players, after 5 years in we will have more clarity
