I've said the same things. To me, the difference during his Hot Streak and the struggles he was having was he had his shooting elbow too far out, instead of it being near his body, locked in. When its too far out, he shot was wavering. Its a simple fix! But also, he was working with John Lucas.
Too me, it is all in the form for him. He changed it up before his rookie year to take out the pause at the top of his shot, but hasn’t really changed anything fundamental since then. Moving his elbow in like you said would force his setup to more balanced - which is a big part of his problem. He draws the ball from his left hip - which puts his elbow out and makes his follow through inconsistent.
The game has changed, you are right that teams would not give Tmac or Kobe 100 pct green light to chuck it up without consequence in these times. On good teams Green is merely a homeless man's young Carmelo or Trae Young. Both good but not winningest players. Teams are stressing D over Offense now.
If you want to say "discount" whatever then chose someone like Kobe I guess. Whitmore would be more of a discount Melo as they are even more one dimensional type of players. Melo averaged more turnovers than assists in his first few years. He was a pure scorer black hole. Let me help you have better insults for Jalen.
I mean it's a nice diversion, but it doesn't change the fact that if Green's been disappointing compared to everybody else (the claim of the person I was actually responding to) then people should re-evaluate their benchmarks, because he scores better than nearly the entire rest of the top 10 draft picks in his class combined. Care to address that or would you like to continue arguing points I never made to distract from the fact you can't actually address a point directly?
Does it matter? He's a better scorer than the other top 10 people in his draft class, sounds like a win to me. **** knows what you're talking about, it doesn't fly though.
What he's talking about is that scoring a lot without efficiency to go with it is a minus to the team, not a plus.
I liked Westbrook's spark and fire and Green only showed one 20th of that passion for the game, he showed more passion at humping.
That's true, plus Westbrook was a much more talented passer and defender when he decided to do either of those things. I think Green is somewhere between a poor man's Lou Williams and a Jordan Crawford that was given the Green light to chuck as many shots as he wants.
It's about the years and if teams are smart to add a team option instead of a player option. Especially with a player that can follow one good season with a bad one very quickly.
So you'd chose Reggie Miller over Michael Jordan, and that's why I can't take any of you seriously. One had way better efficiency, the other simply scored more points on much lower percentages.
Westbrook in his first three years was a better playmaker but a way worse scorer. Worse efficiency especially surprisingly inside the restricted area. Westbrook bricked so many lay ups.... Jalen his first three years has a 66% fg% inside the restricted area and Westbrook was 54%. And obviously Jalen was a better shooter from outside also.
I think if teams are stressing Defense over Offense like I thought, the Rockets would have chosen Clingan over Sheppard but who know what teams want.
