Houston Rockets EXTEND Alperen Sengun & Jalen Green!! What It Means For the Rockets Going Forward?!

[@badmontad]

Excellent analysis. Honestly Frank is such a must listen for Rockets fans, just breaks everything so well

[@ffbeexaid4509]

He’s the best analyst in this channel no doubt.

[@allengarza9208]

100% best rockets content creator

[@Thehooprealm-iG]

Very true 🙏

[@Hinkenzo]

What I see from these contracts are; 1- Jalen realizes he has room to improve. He is unsatisfied with himself, and he knows that he needs a few more years to mature his game. So he basically bet on himself to sign a true max-level contract. 2- Sengun is more interested in safety than he is interested in signing a true max. Something probably clicked after last year's injury, and he realized that an athlete's career may end in a single inopportune moment. Every time the topic of his contract came up during interviews, he basically stated that he just wanted to sign and forget about the money to properly focus on his craft. Both are good deals for Rockets. Sengun's contract specifically may turn out to be the ultimate steal in the league within a few months, sort of like Mikal Bridges' was.

[@RobCortez0416]

This gives me hope we keep the core together. Props to Stone. Impressive. Especially with all those mid dudes getting the max. These moves by Stone are what winning franchises do.

[@dandeitch3459]

There is good reason why so many question Green’s extension.

[@trashieaguillory7740]

@@dandeitch3459nobody is questioning it we love the extension good deals were made

[@travispatton6484]

I agree!! Props to the players as well for taking less pay to keep everyone together ❤️ the cooperation between both camps shows us the special nature of this team.

[@ffbeexaid4509]

Hope the other members of the core 7 willing to give discounts also.

[@baha07TR]

If I were Alpy i would ask for the same Jalen 's contract +10% = 2+1 PO @ 117 mio + incentives if he is selected to All Star..... Little bit unfair for Alpy... But I guess he likes Rockets which should be apriciated... Frank what you think about not putting incentives in Alpy's contract?

[@baha07TR]

As always very good analysis Frank . Thank you

[@AaronHBabin]

Great points! Honestly the national media don’t know what they are talking about.

[@chettmen783]

Nothing new with Stone. We've always known Stone is great at negotiating contracts. I think people need to slow down a bit on declaring him the greatest GM ever. Don't forget he's not great at making those moves on the margins, and that's the difference between a good gm and a great gm. Hopefully he grows in that area. It does look very good though if your on the restructure and extend FVV team(which I'm on). Also no constant contract talk during the season to distract them is another plus. Hopefully JG lives up or even exceeds his contract, and Sengun is a hell of a deal. Think also that partially both where thinking long term on wanting to try and keep this core together, and for that to happen they needed to take less then the max so that their teammates can get decent extensions too.

[@dandeitch3459]

I’ve never heard anyone say he’s a good GM let alone the greatest ever!

[@dandeitch3459]

Every season illustrates that taking Green over Mobley was a mistake and I bet that will continue to be the case!

[@chettmen783]

@@dandeitch3459 Guess your not as tuned into Rockets spaces and live online content. A lot of people were talking about we should build Stone a statue outside of Toyota Center, and a lot of people were saying Stone hasn't made a single wrong move yet. While I agree he is good at contract negotiations, one would hope so because that what he specialized in as a lawyer. I just think people need to slow down a bit on the glazzing. He has made mistakes, cough kpj.

[@dandeitch3459]

@@chettmen783 - it seems delusional to suggest that Stone hasn’t made any mistakes and claiming how great he has been.

[@dandeitch3459]

@@chettmen783 - do fans not remember the lack of improvement the rockets had during Silas’s tenure who he hired ?! I would argue that plenty of GMs would of fired Silas before his contract was up.

[@julianc.6589]

this why i sub, keep it up man

[@user-li4nm5ss4x]

Love the work u putting in

[@user-li4nm5ss4x]

Respect and thanks

[@user-li4nm5ss4x]

Thanks

[@billharris3090]

Awesome job have been looking forward to hearing from you. Ready for the season to start.

[@blundgrenviolin]

Rafael Stone showing why he's low key one of if not the shrewdest GM in the league right now. Genius contract structuring and team management.

[@lilisunited1565]

Was stupid to lose sengun end green good job 👏 let's gooo rockets 🚀

[@rubenpita1585]

I wakeup to search for your analysis bro. I was so happy last night and and more happy now after listening to everything you said. I'm looking forward to tomorrow game because this season will be the most fun since we where up 3-2 against GSW in the playoffs. I also we're taking a similar path as the OKC and this year we will become relevan in this league once again and end up in the 5-6 seed no matter what the media is saying. After watching the NBA for 30yrs, I feel confident to differ with the "experts" here and there. Finally something the has blown out my mind, is the among of coverage that these contract extensions have received from the media and special Jalen Green, as most of them talk about him as "Rockets star, Jalen Green". The party start tomorrow for us. See you on X!

[@ja1815]

The new CBA made it so that small markets could keep their home grown stars. All it created was a situation where desirable locations can get home grown stars at discounts and undesirable destinations need to max players that haven't earned it. Basically created an "Undesirable City" tax.

[@ferchdeharo1917]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 great video

[@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP]

Thank you!!

[@boroborable]

I think at the end of day, both of them signed cause they want to clear state of mind to go into the season. especially for Alpi, he sacrificed good capital for better clean state of mind. and probably, trusting Rockets executives to use left capital for good use. Im happy overall.

[@bastadimasta]

I would not extend Jabari's contract. He doesn't contribute enough to deserve a higher contract than he already has.

[@KyouOneZilla]

I'm a trade him on draft day guy, but that is entirely because I really REALLY want Khaman Malauch and we'll need ammo to move up for him. It's not that I don't like Jabari, I think he will thrive in a different environment. It's more that it would financially help the cap to replace Jabari's minutes with a rookie contract. Khaman can shoot the 3 ball and can play the 4 or 5 with Sengun. Eventually Adams will be gone from the roster so Malauch is the replacement for up to 2 players (Bari and Adams). My priorities with the remaining core are to extend Tari, Amen and Reed. Bari getting an extension before them complicates matters, especially since Jalen will also be up for an extension when Reed is if he uses his player option.

[@3rdCoastAlliance]

Who won? WE WON 🤘 We know what Rafael Stone is a contract lawyer, and we trust in his ability to come up with non-conventional deals that'll give us some flexibility, right? It's one thing for him to negotiate these deals. It's another for Alpi and Jalen's camp to accept it. This lets me know that the Rockets organization has leverage -- they see the amount of growth they that they had under one year of Udoka, the type of team that were building here, and they both said: "We want to be a part of this, we'll take less." And like you said, this sets the standard for everyone else on the roster. This is huge in the age of "Chasing the Bag." We just expanded our window for being really competitive in the west. Increasing our chances to win a championship.

[@BornJune1984]

Alpi on 185mil so proud of him

[@marcosgarcia3258]

Jalen and sengun know they are building something good in Houston that’s why they took the pay cut they know the talent they have around them

[@archonmarch3965]

It is a WIn Win for everyone a 100 + mil is a 100 + mil and saving for the future is saving❤

[@HouStoneSZN]

Thanks Frank

[@luckychukwuma3822]

Ingenious from Rafael stone.

[@tranceightseven]

Great analysis. I hope Jalen handles the scoring load. I think of Senguin as a centerpiece of the office but he shouldn’t be depended on for scoring 30 points a game.

[@calebjackson3580]

The jalen deal isn’t really a good one imo but the sengun one makes up for it

[@bigkanesays304]

Brother Jalen deal is a good one for sure. You guys really aren't seeing the big picture.

[@austina.3677]

Stone masterclass

[@treveonsmith7829]

The league gone start using those contracts as precedent

[@BossNerd]

I'm still trying to get my head around it! This definitely gives us an advantage over other young teams moving forward. I'm certainly going to have to reevaluate Stone.

[@281htown]

As a fan to see these type of cuts in salaries it shows me both players are happy and wants to be a Rocket. I like the fact that they didn't get greedy and want to prove they are worth more.

[@281htown]

Loyalty to a team is everything

[@emrahduman8783]

Absolute delight for the team considering Increasing cap levels. Alpy in his last year will become a max / super max level player. So leaving around $40 million as an injury insurance is not a big deal.

[@DarkNight-zo5ci]

This was the best deal for jalen, no matter how he plays he can just turn down the last year and leave with no problems, if i was the rockets i wouldve pushed for atleast 4 years, cuz now they only in control of a #2 pick for 6 years instead of 9. Also if jalen wants to leave this was the move that needed to be made to facilitate that.

[@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP]

If he is worth keeping you pay him if not then you got other guys who need that bread

[@bigkanesays304]

​@@ROCKETSCHOPSHOPexactly brother. This deal benefits both parties. I don't understand why people think this is a bad deal. I'd rather this than the max at 224. The sweeper for Jalen is the fact he potentially can make 240 if he reaches All-Star better yet Superstar level. Raf Stone strikes again... 🎯🤘🏾🚀

[@seancook2129]

Down the road this will allow us to keep another one of our young guys. 18M a year in savings is going to be huge in terms of winning and keeping this group together longer

[@darksidedjcatastrophe]

Not the Belly impersonation 😭😭😭😭

[@bishop70]

I'm happy for the Rockets as well as these two players. I have an additional question: which one of the two got the better deal, from a long term perspective, compared to each other?

[@lookoutlordy]

Jalen’s deal is masterclass on his behalf & also a win for the Rockets. It’s along the same lines as the Jalen Brunson deal. Increasing earnings now but not fully committing to a salary at an unnecessary rate that prolongs current value. Not to mention inflation continues to rise ! Additionally, the new media rights (begin next season) increase the cap & earning potential of all players. Coming out of this extension Jalen will reset the market for his draft class at two to three years time while his peers are locked in for that time period. Al P as the previous number 16 pick had limited earning potential as a non lottery pick, he legit won with his player option, for he is certainly expected to outperform the new contract. Decent analysis though. Glad this won’t loom over the team & we should be able to focus on simply winning. Let’s go 🚀 !!

[@bastadimasta]

It was a very smart move. Stone guaranteed to keep Sengun in the long term, while opening up space for FVV for two more years. Jalen's contract is even smarter. Jalen is now peoperly motivated to i crease his performance with a short contract which also benefits Jalen if he is to be traded after 2 years. After two years, Jalen is to be traded for a draft picks, and we will have further cap space for Reed and Amen.

[@DarkNight-zo5ci]

After 2 years jalen would just turn down the last year and enter unrestricted free agency, they'd have to trade him next year to capitalize.

[@jus3278]

🤘🏾🚀💯🤞🏾🙏🏿

[@emrahduman8783]

What does it say when it comes to team hierarchy? not much difference in money but longer term deal-would it put Alpy to the top in hierarchy?

[@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP]

I think it at minimum erases the draft position leverage Jalen had to be the guy.. now they can be even or alpi has a slight edge

[@xxDevin95xx]

We got a suge knight organization 😂

[@jus3278]

Mob Ties Tilman 🤞🏾🤫🚀🤘🏾

[@Greg-v9u]

Jabari Smith is the one young player that I feel is not worth resigning he hasn’t proven anything at all and doesn’t show any promise I rather resign Tari Eason

[@josephham5216]

just an fyi Sengun IS NOT making more money than Green. The contract is longer but Green is making more per year next year (rookie scale) and the next 2 seasons after that. Green's option year if taken he would still be making more per season that year as well.

[@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP]

I’m not sure what type of math you are using but Sengun is making more money on the contract alone.. I’m not counting what they are making on their rookie contracts

[@josephham5216]

@@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP no sir you are mistaken. Jalen Green’s contract the first 2 years (3 years if he opted in) will make more per year than Sengun. It’s easy math. Look it up

[@josephham5216]

@@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP $32,716,049, $35,333,333, 37,950,617 for Green; 31,896,552, 34,448,276, 37,000,000 for Sengun. That’s the math. I stated in my original comment I am not talking about the total contract. But per year.

[@aliolci]

5 years? he will regret it

[@jdubb5370]

Rafael Stone still creating a losing culture? Our GM has BEEN doing a great job

[@johnbell3927]

The Rockets won! Because now we have the capital to keep the team together to continue to develop the chemistry in order to win the championship. Also we can trade Fred and Dillion when the time comes probably next year to get another elite add-on player to the 7 young core that we have.

[@Ellisdurell]

Franz is average at best. Orlando is wild for that contract. Jalen Suggs has more value to them.

[@HK-nr3rn]

Blocked you just for saying that lol

[@victortrevino5880]

Signing JG in a 3 year extension shows Stone doesn’t really believe in him but I can understand.

[@Mrnappy13]

I really hope they both work out. Im need Jalen to take that leap this year. Im not a huge fan of Sengun for his lack of defense. He really needs to improve we had to sign Adam's to mask Sengun struggles downlow.

[@sketer2tymez]

3 yr 100 mill bust 🤡

[@la9867]

Stone must’ve read The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

[@mjeg1984]

Jalen Green is woeful at best

[@3rdCoastAlliance]

Give it up bruh, the market has spoken. The Rockets wouldn't have given Jalen that contract unless they thought he would grow more as a player.

[@3rdCoastAlliance]

@@57otis60 On that basis, I agree with you. But that's not what the front office is going by. The front office believes that the Jalen we saw in March of last year is closer to what we can expect from Jalen moving forward (this was actually reported). That the horrible inconsistencies and slumps were an aberration due to Jalen trying to adjust his game. You can disagree with whether that's a sound decision or not, but the people being paid millions of dollars who see Jalen when the cameras aren't on have more credibility than you 🤷🏽

[@DarkNight-zo5ci]

​@@57otis60 Do you understand what restricted free agency means? There is no way they can lose him if they don't want to... now tho it's a different story, he can leave after 2 years.

[@DarkNight-zo5ci]

@@57otis60 you don’t realize jalen doesn’t have to improve much to get a max from another team, if he plays well this year its pretty much a wrap cuz Houston will want to keep him but 90% sure he’ll just end up leaving. Also a 35 mil a year trade piece would have to return a high caliber player.

[@DarkNight-zo5ci]

@@57otis60 I doubt that, he’s healthy this year and just came off a great performance in the Olympics, suns definitely not trading him before it’s time for Jalen to leave. They’d have to have a massive meltdown this season, which I don’t count on.

[@idrisatesci]

steal steal steal

[@darksidedjcatastrophe]

You also think Scola was a max player as a rocket? He averaged 18 9 & 3 in an era with less possessions. Alpi is Scola, not a max player

[@ROCKETSCHOPSHOP]

Who thought that?