Green certainly has a lot to work on and he's worth the emotional and time investment, but if he just hit 34-36% of his 3s he'll already be a 20ppg + efficient scorer. Shooting is one of the easiest skills to become decent at in the NBA if you have a decent touch and it's easier to fix in an off-season vs regular season. If he does that by next year he'll be an efficient 20 ppg scorer at age 20 and the clutchfan members who could never jump high enough to touch the net will still be complaining about a few people saying Green was NBA ready because of some gleague stint.
No, the Green fans would be calling to cut Steph because he'd be taking the ball out of Jalen's hands which stunts his development.
I hope the Silas Steph timeline for Jalen doesn't include multiple ankle injuries.. but who am I kidding.. Silas probably put that in there.
Forgot where I heard this, but if a player doesn't make 75% of his 3s in practice then he's not cut out for the NBA.
I've seen the vast majority of the games this season and I know this has been touched on but a lot of it seems to have to do with his shooting form. He needs to keep his hands and release point higher, when he does that it looks pretty good.
Many of the things said in here are fine. Darko bust, clearly not... Darko couldn't even get on the court and put in like 48 points his entire rookie year. One thing not discussed enough is the organization development around him. Recall, this is the same JG who was one of the best summer league players. And sure, summer league isn't NBA and g-league isn't NBA... But at some point you have to look around and see if there's something developmentally going wrong. And to do that you have to look at the whole team. And the first obvious point... Alpi. Has Alpi shown improvements developmentally? Hard to say... if anything, I'd say he ALSO has had struggles that make you scratch your head at times wrt to what they're teaching them. Part of that might just be how many extremely young players they have. What happened to Armoni Brooks? It took KMJ half a year to approach something close to what i thought he'd be this year and oh btw he can't shoot now either when he was more than halfway decent at it last year. We all know/see KPJs struggles. Even with his recent "good" stretch, he's still playing worse than last year. CWood is worse. Theis is unplayable apparently (and I get we all "hate" Theis... but the signing wasn't horrible and there should be a way to find a role for him). House was supposedly amazing in training camp and then was horrible when games started - yet in 7 games with Utah is shooting 42% from 3 and 60% form 2. there are some “bright” spots but they are few and far between. it’s not about w/l record or just JG. I’ve been as excited about Alpi from day one and he can’t get on the court…..
I don’t think the number is that high, but it’s definitely high. I can’t find it, but I remember when liangelo ball was trying out at some rookie combine they posted the shooting percentages for all those guys with a sample of about 200-300 shots, at all different spots from the 3 point line. Most of those guys shot between 45-55% and these were all guys who could not make the nba. I think the number is closer to 60 than 75 but your point still stands. There was also one summer where derozan tried to work really hard on his three point shot taking like 1000 a day and he was only hitting 50% of them, which we can see was not high enough for him to really be an nba 3 point shooter.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/te...-Green-works-find-shooting-touch-16816008.php With the Rockets practice on Saturday complete and many of his teammates on the other end of the floor in a shooting competition, Rockets rookie guard Jalen Green just shot 3-pointers. And shot. And shot. He had said on Friday that he intended to keep working with assistant coach John Lucas to regain his shooting touch. On Saturday, he worked his way around the halfcourt, sinking 100 3-pointers from each of five positions on the floor as Lucas offered instructions aimed at helping Green find the range again. "I'm still in the lab,” Green said after making 2 of 8 3-pointers on Friday, dropping him to 10 of 54 in his past 10 games. “I’ve got to shoot the ball knowing, thinking that it's going to go in. It's a game of highs and lows, it's going to happen. “It's all right. It's going to happen. Shots going to fall.” Green initially shot well when he returned after his hamstring injury, making 11 of 24 3-pointers in his first three games. An issue since, Rockets coach Stephen Silas said, has been rushing as he prepared to shoot, a correction the Rockets had made when Green was working out when out with the hamstring injury and could make again. “(The adjustment) was less about his shot mechanics and more about the pace that he’s getting into his shots,” Silas said. “So, they’ve been working on that the last couple of days and trying to fine tune that. But I just think it’s a slump, to me. It’s one of those things. “It’s like golf when you’re trying to groove your swing day after day after day. Once every little while, you kind of revert back to the things you were doing. I’m not sure he is reverting back but it does look like the pace of his release has gotten back to where he was prior to when him and Luc were working on it.”
