His balance on outside shots is noticeably worse than it was to start the season. He’s drifting too much, disappointing to see him revert back.
This. His jumper (from anywhere) is good when compact, straight up and down and realsed at the same height/jump.
He needs to shoot with his body vertical. He needs to stop the leaning 60 degrees back with no defender on him. That's that KPJ flashy bs.
It seems like that's what he worked on all summer. Maybe it's a lack of discipline that's he's reverting back. Someone needs to reel him back in, this type of chucking should not continue. But then again our guard mentor is a even bigger chucker
Agreed. Even with his poor shooting, I still feel more comfortable with him running the offense than FVV. He did a good job closing today with the ball in his hands and made good decisions. But the efficiency is just not good enough.
"He needs to drive to the rim" How? They are stone walling the paint lmao. Some people just watch box scores and look at %s. His form and balance has started to slip from the beginning of the season when he was looking great. I think thats mostly the reason for his poor shooting, as it always has been. I wish it was as easy as just "get to the rim".
Don't agree with this at all. When sengun checked back in the offense should been to post him up on Reed. Sengun had the advantage when Stewart was out and we never went inside. Utterly stupid. Instead we had Jalen force up ill advised shots and get bailed out by offensive rebounds. Makes no sense when you are shooting as badly as he was today.
The worse he shoots, the harder it is for him to get to the rim. Defense can just sag off to stop the drive and dare him to shoot from outside.
Defensive teams have found ways to at least slow him down......and he is not the hardest player to game plan against when his outside shot is off. And he is also not the strongest of players.
Is it still Jalen Green's team right now? Unfortunately, I have lost hope for Jabari. Note that Jabari is getting slightly more time on the floor than Alpi. Why, Ime?
I don't even think that dunk was that nice Wide open lane to the rim etc 99% of NBA players convert a dunk or and-1 there
The dunk was sexy AF, but Green is the same player. Not better, not worse, just the exact same guy he's been since the middle of his rookie season. There's never any noteworthy improvement offensively. His numbers have been remarkably consistent from year to year. He still can't navigate screens, or get to an open spot in the defense with any consistency.
It is hard for him when his shot isn't falling. He doesn't have the physicality to get to the rim when he's struggling from outside. Big contrast in seeing how Cade could get to the rim against really good defenders, while Jalen was getting turned back by Tim Hardaway Jr. As others stated above, Jalen's form today was looking like its bad old self. He keeps jumping at different angles to create greater separation when that separation is not needed, and he took a few horrible, low IQ jumpers tonight too. That said, it was a day game, and these games are dumpster fires 95% of the time, so him sucking ass in a day game won't stress me out.
Maybe that great Green breakout we've been waiting for will finally happen at some point, but it still hasn't. Not even a slight movement in that direction. Every star in NBA history showed significant improvement in their first 4 seasons, there has been virtually none for him. At this point his trajectory would be an extreme outlier to flatline for 3 plus seasons.. then get great
You lost hope 10 games into the season, when he's won 3 games with his play and brought us back in another? Maybe you didn't have hope from the start
