Chapter 3: "Jalen The Loser"

Dont you dare compare his numbers to Kobe!!!

Actually now you have to pull up the numbers from Michael Jordan and Allen Iverson.

Carry on.

 

Kal-El is pretty much born with fapping abilities.

 

People are too enamored with responding to takes on both sides.....why not just lean back......

It is like moaning watching every 10 seconds of a film......and making a thread about it.

Just sit through a 2 and half (3 hours) long movie.

Will is not the only sensitive b.....here.

 

I just like pointing out the hypocrisy.

DD

 

The Rockets are intentionally trying to lose this year so not fair to label him that yet. If it's his 3rd-5th year and he's playing really well and still can't sniff the playoffs (or play in even) then it's okay to start throwing that word around.

 

The Rockets were trying to win all year until the Portland games torpedoed the draft pick.

They just really sucked at it.

 

They sat John Wall all year and they took picks over Jarret Allen/Levert who would have made us more competitive this year.

 

Pretty much every team is trying to win once they get on the court. But the Rockets didn't put together a roster to maximize winning this year.

 

Exactly. Professional athletes are far too competitive to not leave everything on the floor to try to win the game.

Tanking has never been about not putting up maximum effort on the court. It's about resting vets like Wall.

 

John Wall was awful last year, his advanced stats were worse than Jalen's this year, which includes the 4 month period of where a 19 year old guard had to adjust to the NBA.

He's called the tank commander for a reason.

 

Thinly-veiled "I want you to troll me with bad takes so I can set up boring easy dunks" thread

neg-repped.

 

If the season were to end today:

Guards who finished with >20PPG and at least 45% FG% in the last 20 games of their rookie seasons, since 1981:

Rk	Player	Team	Games	Span Start	Span End	PTS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	GmSc	BPM	PTS
1	Allen Iverson*	PHI	20	3/12/1997	4/19/1997	29.9	881	214	460	0.465	54	130	0.415	116	158	0.734	33	50	83	167	38	4	94	66	21	2.3	29.9
2	Michael Jordan*	CHI	20	3/9/1985	4/13/1985	29.5	801	204	408	0.5	4	20	0.2	178	217	0.82	49	78	127	139	49	9	80	65	23.7	7.4	29.5
3	Anthony Edwards	MIN	20	4/9/2021	5/16/2021	23.3	699	163	350	0.466	60	167	0.359	80	104	0.769	14	95	109	76	27	13	48	41	17	1.2	23.3
4	Stephen Curry	GSW	20	3/5/2010	4/14/2010	23.1	765	172	363	0.474	61	123	0.496	56	62	0.903	20	86	106	152	42	5	68	56	18.7	3.7	23.1
5	Mitch Richmond*	GSW	20	3/14/1989	4/18/1989	23	736	169	368	0.459	8	24	0.333	114	141	0.809	40	95	135	88	25	2	68	57	15.6	-0.5	23
6	Collin Sexton	CLE	20	3/2/2019	4/9/2019	21.9	713	164	331	0.495	48	115	0.417	61	73	0.836	11	34	45	65	9	3	50	41	13.7	-1.5	21.9
7	Ron Harper	CLE	20	3/12/1987	4/18/1987	21.9	727	173	375	0.461	3	19	0.158	88	136	0.647	38	48	86	89	50	25	74	53	15	2	21.9
8	Jalen Green	HOU	20	2/27/2022	4/3/2022	21.4	683	159	339	0.469	62	158	0.392	48	62	0.774	15	59	74	66	12	9	31	33	14.9	-0.1	21.4
9	Damon Stoudamire	TOR	20	2/22/1996	4/2/1996	20.9	804	158	350	0.451	59	136	0.434	43	59	0.729	11	57	68	204	27	4	64	52	17.1	2	20.9
10	Cade Cunningham	DET	20	2/14/2022	4/1/2022	20.8	675	166	364	0.456	27	93	0.29	56	69	0.812	18	94	112	123	20	12	74	69	13.8	-0.4	20.8
11	Willie Anderson	SAS	20	3/16/1989	4/22/1989	20.3	715	173	342	0.506	0	3	0	59	68	0.868	32	81	113	114	37	14	76	78	14.9	0.9	20.3
12	Steve Francis	HOU	20	3/14/2000	4/19/2000	20.2	763	145	289	0.502	36	85	0.424	77	97	0.794	34	82	116	123	31	11	73	64	16.3	3.1	20.2

 

Hopefully, he can push it up to 23 or so with the last three games.

 

We got a top 5 pick with Wall playing last year. They didn't want to pay Jarret Allen. Levert is nothing special. All of those decisions have the future of the org in mind, and weren't directed at outright tanking. I don't think they are upset with the results this year, but this team was competing to win.

 

I forgot if it was here or somewhere else, but someone had mentioned that the way Cade plays is more conducive to winning. I was just like, aren't the Pistons just as shitty as the Rockets this season and this is in spite of Green missing like 15 games? The lengths some go to in order to try and put down Green is mind boggling, especially when it comes from in house. That said, idiots will always be idiots.

 

the thing that stands out most in this list is the 31TOV. that's nearly half of everyone else suggesting that his usg% is probably the lowest as well.