Chapter 9: Jalen "Call Me Daddy" Green

Like I said in a post in another thread, we shouldn't expect Green to suddenly play well almost every night, at least not yet. He'll have ups and downs because he's young and still figuring things out. But I do expect the downs will start becoming less frequent, and in another year or two they'll be pretty rare. I'll take a Jalen Green who does this 7 games out of 10; that's All-Star level.

 

I really want to make a post with graphs and pie charts, partly because it's the most intuitive (to me) way to demonstrate my point, and partly to make @Verbal Christ eyes roll so hard that they fall out of his head. But I don't quite think we're there yet. I do, think we have a new Jalen, though

 

I’m just not sure why so many people are surprised that a 22-year-old player continues to get better?

We are acting like he’s 26 or 27 and even then players continued to improve.

if he marginally improves his efficiency over the length of his 3.5 year contract. It still probably bodes well for us.

I don’t go Off of the stats as much as some people do I just watch every game. He has gotten significantly better from four years ago to today.

personally I think he is one of the better perimeter defenders in league as well, especially with smaller guards.


he is one of the fastest players I have ever seen with the ball and he is beginning to finish so much better than he did in his career.

 

We all know the Hatfield's and the McCoy's are

I like your new avatar!!! The old one gave me the creeps...

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It is so sad knowing there are people who don't want to post here today because they gave up on this kid prematurely. It's so easy to just admit you're wrong and enjoy the wins as they roll in. Oh well.

 

They're not posting because they're busy practicing typing, "Hey, I was right at the time!"

 

I was talking to my brother about our team earlier in the season. I told him that I really liked our chances of improving and becoming a lower level playoff team. Never in my wildest did I envision this squad as a top 1-3 team in the loaded West. I did mention how much I liked Alpi but I felt like this team would be consistent winners if Jalen really took that leap towards at least being consistent on a nightly basis. I wasn't, and am still not, expecting him to go for 30+ per game but I do like that this team is finding ways to win collectively.

All-in-all I do feel like this team is unbeatable if we find ways to play through Jalen and get everyone else (especially Alpi) involved offensively. There have been nights were he's popped off for a huge triple double yet we still lose.

I really hope he keeps it up, because we really knew he had it in him!

 

I think the sentiment of almost giving up on Jalen was caused by the fact that there seemed to be no visible progress in the past 3 seasons. That with the earlier surge in this season only to crash back down after about 5 monster games. It's the pattern of up and down without a general upward trajectory that made people lose faith. Young players who become great usually breakout before their 4th season.

It's interesting that Mobley also took a big leap this season. It's better late than never. If what we are seeing is the real Jalen, then as I have said elsewhere, we don't need a big trade. This group of young core is good enough to go to war.

 

"All right Jalen is playing pretty well lately he appears to be turning corners and figuring it out at the same time while the fanbase finds common ground to move forward and heal some broken dopamine receptors"

Jaters: "the math aint mathin"