Its time to discuss trading Jalen Green while he's still worth a damn

I can understand that. Dame is young enough that he might have 4-5 more seasons left in his prime and if it is a straight up trade you still have Sengun, Bari, KPJ, Eason, KMJ, and whoever we draft, plus a crap ton of cap space too.

So I won't say Green is untouchable. Depends on the deal. If Luka after this season say he wants out after some Kyrie drama, sure, if Ja sure, if Dame, sure. I mean it depends. It needs to be a bonafide all-star with half a decade left of their prime at least. Other than that, nope.

 

Green is untouchable….next?

 

I'm completely not sold on Dame at his age and on his contract. He is definitely a star player, but he just feels like a Durant style star. Where as, he isn't going to be the guy to lead the team to a title. But he could be a perfect addition to a team who needs to break through, because he can fit lots of teams and can be very efficient offensively.

Plus the other players on the Rockets are roster are no where near ready to contend in the next few years, which is what you need to maximize Dame's career.

Luka and Morant make a more sense given their age. But if Luka was already frustrated enough by Dallas not building a team for that many years, why would he want to go to another team that would be in same condition as the Dallas team he is leaving? Plus Dallas would try to bankrupt Houston in trading that level player to an in-state rival.

 

DD Has spoken.

Jalen super star ceiling confirmed.

Thx DD.

 

LOL.

DRUGS.

THEY ARE BAD.

GET HELP

 

Folks btch about how we can't win with Harden, and we have folks wanting to trade for Dame a guy who showed up even less than the beard in playoffs.

I can b convinced or persuaded into trading green for a superstar like luka or zion, but if we aren't doing that there's really no point in doing a trade just for gettin rid of green for the sake of slotting kpj back into his natural position.

 

There are only a few players houston got right now worth to invest.
1)Sengun ( best player right now in team since he drafted. Jokic light version, all star in few jears. He will improve in defense and 3 Point shooting)
2) kj 2nd best player ( not a chucker like kpj and green dont need much ball touch or attemts to be important. Best cutter in team and a lot room for improvment
3) smith ( in a few jears he will be a good 3&d a light version of kay thompson)
4) tari( not highest bbiq but he will be a good defense player with rebounding. He got a tunnel vision need to improve when to attack the rim and when better pass. Right now he akways attack the rim and fail to much)
5) tyty he can be a good back up point guard need playtime and work on his defense

Everyone else not worth invest better trade for better player or picks to improve the team.

I hope rockets get a good coach next season so they can start really play like a nba team and not like kindergarden with no offense and defense plan just hero ball iso from chucker kpj and green

 

Bunch of casuals....pffttt....can't see the Forest through the trees.



DD

 

Cam Thomas straight up I'd do right now...

 

The problem is he has 4 out of 5 games where it's justified...

 

I wonder how long the Rockets will have patience for this Jekyll and Hyde act of scoring 30+ and then being a complete liability. Great NBA have great games, good games, and quiet games and very occasionally horrible games. Green has Great games, and horrible games. He needs to learn to have quiet games.

 

3, yeah he will be a version of anyone but Klay, this old version of a Klay.

 

He's 20 and midway thru his 2nd year lol all you want to see are flashes right now. It's sad but Jalen is unlikely to be a generational talent like an MJ, Kobe etc but he can still reach a multi all star ceiling like a Brandon Ingram, Zach Lavine, Booker etc Multi Allstar guys generally start breaking out at age 22-25 which you can see if you watched James Harden and co.

 

Exactly. Not trading him just because of it, but if superstar is available… i am Green stan but they just lied to me about his height and work ethic. It settles debate if he can become Kobe. I already been down this road with far more talented player in TMac

 

He really doesn't though, that's the problem. All you guys slamming Green have absolutely no idea how he actually performs. I'll break it down for you. These are Green's scoring performances this season alone:

30-45pt games = 10 games
25-29pt = 9 games
20-24pt= 11 games
15-19pt = 12 games
10-14pt = 8 games
0-9 pt = 2 games

In what universe is that 4 out of 5 games where he sucks? It's literally the exact opposite of what you're trying to portray. But sure, trust your "eye test." In fact, I'd suggest getting your eyes tested.

 

Nice joke lije dallas would take green for luka. Even if u make an offer green, jabari, kj, kpj and 8 first rounder dallas woumd say no. Fir a generation player future hall of famer every jear mvp conversatiin player like luka dallas would get an offer tatum, brown and 5 first rounder and not less. Or zion, ingramm and 8 first rounder. Player like mj, lebron and luka comes every 50 jears maybe

 

Trading green for anybody less is just stupid especially if he's only in his second year. Like realistically who r u proposing we even trading green for that won't make folks laugh at u for suggesting something so stupid.

 

I looked at his numbers that matter and you are wrong. Based on his shooting (2pt fg, 3pt fg, efg%) he's awesome 1 in 5 games, so-so 1 in 5 games, and putrid 3 in 5 games.

You can download the data out of basketball reference game logs. I just did that about 10 days ago.

A lot of those 20-29 pt games he took a lot of shots to get there.

 

Just keeping things simple, over half his games he has shot 35% or worse.

Even if those are all 3s it's mediocre.

40% overall gets you kicked out of the league unless it's majority 3s...

 

So he's filling up the scoreboard whilst playing inconsistently, and you think the right thing to do is to trade him rather than coaching him to play consistently? Put down the crackpipe. The smart play is to coach him to tighten up his game and then watch him become one of the elite scorers in the league with ease.