My God, I couldn’t sum up the hypocrisy of Green haters more succinctly. You: “Anyone putting stock in the game is a goofball.” Also you: “Green’s shot at the end of the game epitomizes the Green experience!!!”
Oh, are you taking about the 3 years Pau carried him on the most ridiculously stacked team in the NBA? How'd they do the 3 seasons before they picked up Pau? They still had Kobe, so I'm sure they were amazing...
Evan Mobley is exactly what I expected and saw in college personality and basketball IQ wise. I remember posting that Mobley was more ready for the NBA game because he was extremely well coached from an early age by his father and Mobley very seldom made mistakes, especially defensively. The question with Mobley personality wise was (and still is) whether he could lead a team or if he was more of an elite secondary type player offensively. As for Green, I haven’t heard any criticism of his work ethic or how he works. I haven’t heard anything but positives about his competitiveness or personality. As far as his emphasis on individual honors, it doesn’t bother me because Jordan and Kobe and Olajuwon and James all put an emphasis on personal accolades very early in their career when they were trying to establish themselves. Not to mention he played in the G-League at 18 where it is all about individual play and he is now on a terrible Rockets team with not exactly the best role models. Green also isn’t a chucker (should shoot more) so I don’t see any real selfish tendencies. Personality-wise he reminds me of Ray Allen. Green’s issue is that his skill set isn’t good enough for the NBA right now.
Naw. Jalen has raw skills that can do extremely well in an environment where there is no structure and bad defense. We already know that. We saw him do really well in Summer League and got way too carried away with it. To respectfully disagree with Nook to an extent, I have some concerns about his approach to basketball. Taking a highly contested 26 footer when his team needed 1 point and coming out with an NFT and missing 9 straight dunk attempts are pretty in line with those concerns. My analysis could be wrong but there isn’t logical inconsistency with it. If he made a great rotation on a key defensive possession then broke down the D and made a great pass to an open teammate for a game winner I would give him his credit.
No, it’s in line with the flawed logic of every Green hater — downplay his accomplishments and exaggerate his shortcomings.
The guy has some really impressive raw skills. He showed it again in the RS game. That’s not going to be enough.
If that is true, and I am thinking like you, then the combination of bad environment- Rockets as a horrible team setting plus really raw player. Bad get together.
While a few people have already decided negatively about JG, most of us are not haters. We are just trying to figure out if he's going to eventually be good. I will root for him regardless -- I rooted for Clyde, TMac, Gerald Green, and Von Wafer. I'll root for JG but so far he looks a lot more like Gerald Green than Clyde.
Question, why is the “strong work ethic” we have heard so much about not translating into “actual skill level”? Shouldn’t those be correlated, assuming he was a strong worker his whole life and not just in time for predraft interviews.
Thon Maker worked harder than anyone else on the bucks. But Talent beats Hard Work when Talent works hard.
Guy who just scored 21 and 18 on a back to back less than 24 hours before leading all scorers in the rookie challenge... isn't good enough for the NBA right now? Oh another rotation watcher. It's amazing how many defensive rotation gurus have appeared out of nowhere recently. It's like Tom Thibodeaux created a bot army
We have to give JG some time. He was the best rookie in the Rising Stars game on Friday. The Rockets need to find the right coach to help groom him.
Don't you understand? His hot stretches are just fluky streaks, while his cold stretches reflect who he really is.
And here I thought All Star weekend would be an opportunity for Green to bolster his public image after a mediocre showing in his NBA premier to this point.
I was really rooting for JG to win that damn dunk contest. Just another thing for some us to moan about.. it's getting annoying around here.. You guys are no fun..
