I would be very surprised if Green busts out completely like a Bennett or Hasheem A player with his level of quickness and athletic abilities should at very least be able to get a sixth man role and be a spark plugs off the bench. Especially when he fixes his jump shot which everyone seems to be able to do in the NBA even Lonzo Ball. I just wish we can somehow accerelate his learning of general basketball sense and IQ. That will make him into from just an athlete to a contributing player
I think Jalen Green is a generational talent because the only product he uses in his hair is water and his swag level is in the billions.. That's enough for me.. If that's not enough for you, sorry. we're all making guesses and none of it matters, bruh.. stay mad, lol.
I don't see how anyone can look at 3pt% in the g league and NBA and think that the g league does not lead to inflated percentages. Chris Clemons NBA 107 3 ptrs 34.6% G League 55 3 pointers 49.1% (this will probably go down by 107 shots but will still be way above 34%) You can do that with every player who has played in both leagues. I suspect almost all with have a higher % in the g league. I would've added more but I only recognize maybe 2 or 3 names of the top 20 3point% shooters in the g league. The rest of the top 20 won't ever play in the NBA. The 20th player is shooting 44% on 3's. If 3pt shooting translated, then he would be signed in a minute. A 44% 3 point shooter always has a place in the NBA. Always. Jalen may be much better when he returns. But I agree that he's a streaky shooter and always will be if he does not make big changes to his game. Green G league 11 games shot .286 or worse on 3's 2 games shot .333 on 3's (I'd be okay with 33% average for his first year in NBA, and it will take a dramatic reversal to get there) 5 games shot .400 or better on 3's 18 games is a small sample size but there's a pattern here. If it hasn't been mentioned, he's shot exactly the same number of 3 pointers (115) in both the g league and NBA up to this point. I get that he's taking a higher volume of 3's now and that may affect his percentage. But I don't want him shooting 6.4 3's a game if he's only making 27.8% of them.
Does it do any good to refer to them as "Jalen Green simps" or to over-criticize a 19-year-old who doesn't have 20 NBA games under his belt, though? Maybe we could stop pushing the divide between all these different groups of Rockets fans and meet in the middle where we can all acknowledge that the guy's been bad, but he's a freaking rookie who can't even legally drink alcohol for another 14 months? I think it's OK to disagree a bit as Rockets fans on specific players and where the team is headed, but I just cannot get over how divided the fan base has been over the last few months, essentially since the Green vs. Mobley decision. Most of us are adults. Let's try to act like it.
Chandler was also a DPOY. And a critical component on a championship team. Not sure "bust" is the first thing you think about when Tyson Chandler is discussed.
It's just an accurate description, they aren't Rockets fans they are Jalen Green fans. Their ridiculous delusions prove it. If they were Rockets fans, they wouldn't be attacking everyone and everything to try and make excuses for the worst player on the team.
Green also awkwardly lands on one foot when he goes up for a thunder dunk. Always hold my breath when he goes up, mouth open in awe. And when he comes down, teeth gritted anxiously.
Sound line of thinking, but this is harder to do in theory. It's not like the WWE where you can practice ring moves with the opposition about where and how you're going to fall and all the choreography leading up to it. When you're going up in the air making contact with different body types (for instance a big dude like Zion or a tall dude like Boban), it's hard to protect yourself because you don't know how you're going to land or if you might step on a foot or something. It's especially more difficult since basketball players (most likely) don't practice falling in different directions due to risk of injury. I always commend guys who've torn ACLs or otherwise been on the shelf for a lower leg injury, and then come right back into basketball after healing and continue to drive into the paint. Takes a lot of courage.
Dude he had a 10 year plus career how could he have been abjetly bad? It just makes zero sense. He signed contracts for midlevel teams don't give out those types of contracts for bust and certainly not more than one. You are just wrong on this one.
Right, but that's what I mean when I say for Chicago he was a bust, he didn't even average 10/10 for them, achieved none of that for the team that drafted him. For them he had to be a disappointment, it's nice he carved out a good career in the end, which I did acknowledge...but that didn't help the team that drafted him at all. Relating this back to Green, if 7 years from now he's getting all-star appearances and playing in the finals for another team while doing little for us...I would still consider that a bust. Not in the same way that Thabeet was a bust...
