The Warriors were good last year and borderline horrible this year. Their D has been a blast of the past so far. The Celtics could really challenge the Bucks in the East and be a force in the upcoming years. For now I am not seeing no dynasties and repeats. Maybe you meant dynasty even when they weren't winning and hovering around 0.500. Klay and Dray aren't the same players, Poole and Wiggins are nice but borderline game changers, it's really a different team.
I meant the entire playoff run for the main 3 players of the Warriors. For the Rockets to intersect and beat them it obviously would have to be on the downside of their team with the younger players taking a step to even have that happen. Regardless of what you want to call it they have been to 6 finals. Winning 4 and one of the coming just last season. Breaking the all time wins record. To me that is certainly a dynasty.
Fair enough, I would call them dangerous but they are no favorites to me. We could argue how much Durant meant to them but I am not going to stall time there. The Rockets have some players that have their shooting modeled after Splash bros and I get that it would be sweet to beat them but it's by far not the same rivalry when Harden and CP3 left.
Is this a Jalen Green thread? If not, oh well. Dude is on track to be the great SG. He has been so insanely good, and I feel like it is taken for granted.
People really need perspective on how difficult it is to score on high volume as a 20 year old in the NBA. https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/which-nba-player-has-the-most-ppg-at-age-20 What the kid is doing at his age just doesn't happen often.
Yeah but it's going to happen more and more often due to lifting of draft age limits and just more scoring overall which is why there's so many guys from the last 5 drafts on that list. Green once again in one of his slumps. Still to erratic to really say for certain what he is at this point. Devin Booker would be great. But Tyreke Evans is also sadly a possibility.
I don't know why you are being excessively negative. At this point of what Green has done, it is more rare for Green to fall off like Tyreke. Tyreke is a go to example because he is one of the few who excelled this early and flattened out. Booker is a reasonable expectation.
He's becoming a more well rounded player. Playmaking for others, finding ways to score when jumpers aren't falling, and improving on defense. Last nights game was hard to watch because the Rockets played with little or no energy. Looked like they were ready to leave Denver before the first quarter was over. Know priority isn't winning right now but it would sure be nice if the Rockets offense had a counter to teams zoning or packing the paint on us. Cause on nights when the shots aren't falling they're almost unwatchable.
I thought it was a very key moment last night when KPJ (74%) took the technical free throw over JG (79%). You never see this on any other team. KPJ is the "big bro" to JG's "lil bro". Pretty sure this is a bad thing
Both of them shooting in 70s is also a big problem lol…. Green to me in his second year is already better than 4th year RJ Barrett - and on same tier as Anthony Edwards. Jalen really needs to shoot that baseline pull-up jumper of his more, it’s been money from both sides and usually helps his 3ball
Think that probably had more to do with Jalen missing both of his free throws earlier but agree with you in principle. Jalen (and the rest of the team for that matter) differ to KPJ and that is an issue for me as well. The pecking order on this team is off. Feel like it should be Jalen, Sengun, with KPJ as more of a facilitator. Jabari will eventually move up in the pecking order but right now is still getting acclimated to the NBA.
Right now Jalen is averaging almost exactly the same numbers as Anthony Edwards was in his second season. He's about to blow past Anthony Edwards' current season with the remaining schedule and never look back after that. But I hear he's as likely to be Tyreke Evans haha!
It just shows you being the best rookies in the draft class does not always mean turning out to be the best players. We have seen many examples before. You don't judge a player until after at least 2 seasons, maybe 3.
Tyreke Evans was thought to be a future star too. Doesn't mean Jalen Green is him it just means extrapolation of future success on limited data is not advisable, though i get it's your whole deal He has 2-3 game slumps nearly every week - in fact he's in one right now. Projecting his trajectory as if it's line goes up sure thing like most NFTs is silly
Could we forget about Tyreke Evans, I am no Mathloom but even I do not want to talk about him no more.
Damn, I forgot how good Gordon was as a 20 year old. 40% 3s on volume. No wonder we wanted him so bad.
remember how bad he was last fall? let's just appreciate the growth. maybe Spring Green will become a thing.
