Thought I'll start a thread on this since it seems worthy of a deeper discussion. Jalen Green currently has a massive divide between home and road performance. As of December 12th he has played 10 home games and 16 road games. Home Games Green is averaging 25/5/5 on TS 63.1%. Every single stat is up across the board, and even shooting noticeably better from free throws. Road Games Green averages an inefficient 19/4/3 on TS 49%, free throws are down as well. In other words, Jalen Green can literally go from looking like a budding franchise player, to a near-bust, depending on whether he plays home games or road games. This could be fatigue, lack of practices, unfamiliarity with environment etc.
It’s confidence. He’s a confidence player. I’m sure he’ll learn how to deal with the road as he matures.
considering that this is the first real patch of home games we have had, this is no surprise as it can be hard on the road for a young player. We had so many away games against the best teams to start the season and it can be taxing on the body on the road. Amazing how good you can play with home practice and sleeping in your own bed.
Just to echo what others have said, becoming a better road player will be a part of the process for him. I’m pretty sure he’s aware or has been made aware of the disparity in his road/away performances and he’ll make the proper adjustments to become a better player away from Houston.
Maybe just maybe he is overwhelmed by the other cities and media. Trying to “play the role” of superior player instead of just being one. In time this will level out.
Fairly typical of most teams to play worse on the road than at home .... wouldn't expect Green to be any different - though those splits are significant. I expect he'll close the gap given time.
On the road and at their home court the opponent is ultra aggressive too to win and run different defenses on him.
I wonder what the home and road splits are for Cade and Mobley? Or maybe some of the rookies - Paolo, Jabari, Ivey, Mathurin, etc. I just wonder how typical this actually is.
First 4 home games were one and done and then back on the road. Little to no practice with that set up. And I've noted that the Toyota Center has a depth perception issue. This early in the season takes our young players a couple of days to get adjusted. With more more home games together.....the numbers are improving.
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. Those are decent numbers for some veteran NBA players let alone a sophomore guard. The fact that he's doing that on the road and that he can do better is actually a positive to me. Now he does need to improve his road efficiency, but as others have said, that will come with more experience.
On TS 49%, yes it's pretty bad. Raw numbers are not meaningful. The point is his "bad" is definitely really bad, but his good is franchise player potential good. This isn't a criticism of Green, if anything this trend tells me he can sustain good games in the right circumstances (home games).
