If Jalen just keeps playing well, the sponsorships, the deals, the fanfare--it'll come for sure. His game is so aesthetically pleasing when he's "on". He's also a good looking fella, I'm sure he's popular with the female demographic as well!
He should have touched the Rock at the end. IDC what anyone says. He is our best option by far to get a clean look that we can live with.
Amen is the best one out of the 3 jump out of the arena guys the others being Jalen and Cam. He also will take voters from Jalen and Cam in the future where a change of scenery would be beneficial. His motor and skillset other than shooting is on a level we haven't seen since Sengoon. Jalen is showing he is better at shooting because he is not a better rebounder than Sengun, not a better thief and decisionmaker than Amen. Gun to the head, of course, it's the religious name guy. The potential is going to be All NBA level very soon.
Yea, everyone get out of the way while he loses the ball. There’s no way he was getting a shot up over Wells. There’s a reason why Ime goes to Sengun at the end of games. The tight games we’ve been winning have been Sengun and Amen down the stretch.
You know, Udoka started telling us a year ago that he believes in Jalen, he's taking the right shots and he's improving. Just needs to keep working on his game. At that very same time, there were people saying Jalen is what he is, Udoka is being courteous, doesn't truly believe it and he doesn't deserve to start. Today, Udoka is validated 80% easily. The player is coachable, improving and he's leading us to more wins than ever before. He's rebuilt a player who was a negative when he arrived, further drowned in bad habits for 2 years. It's not a given you can rescue that situation. He more than rescued Jalen and we're on track with where he should be midway through season 4. On his way to by far the best season of his career if he just plays a little better in the second half of the season. He's already improved like Udoka said he would. Slowly but surely. Some people however are STILL on that "he'll never be" bullshit and are never going to change. They are what they are. They can maintain this ruse forever by just comparing Jalen to a different archetype (more muscular, taller). This allows them to compare apples to oranges. Which their ego understands: they are subconsciously avoiding taking responsibility for their prediction, cause you can say your guy is better until the other guy wins and you say it's apples and oranges. That's the circle jerk. Frankly all the remaining Jaters are people who don't feel or exude masculinity without expressing toughness outwardly towards people they perceive as internally weaker. "It's the hair, nails, not enough protein" bros. It's so odd but interesting how they share this characteristic. Haters gonna hate on their bad days. The thing they hate may change but they won't. The exact feeling that fuels their victimhood is "My lifetime of acting tough is not meaningless". That's what's not improving - you still think you're playing that game and you might even think everyone or the most successful people are playing it. Jalen triggers the F out of that feeling. They will never be capable of championing Jalen's rockets success or reach the height of celebration that the rest of the board will through the progressing realization of his potential with Udoka. Oh and I want to say this: yes, it is hating beyond just expressing a differing opinion. It's not just disagreeing. Jalen fans and Jalen critics disagree without Jatin' or stanning all the time with no issues - you can see it just before or just after your posts, no need to go far. I'm talking about Jaters. Someone who in 2025 is acting like nothing has changed in 2 years and nothing can ever change. That's a hopeless case that loves being the first to call others hopeless. Anyway, just my opinion about what they are and will never be. Sad to see how much Jatin' or Jalenphobia still going on.
Jalen has his flaws but has improved significantly this season and is a really fun player to watch despite the occasional mistake. I think we lost this game because we were missing Alpi and Jabari. We couldn't stop them at the rim. They had 72 points in the paint. That's a shocking number. Steven Adams is a decent backup and rebounds well but doesn't provide much rim protection. We were just too small in the paint against a big Grizzlies team. I also think our lack or spacing hurt us at the end of the game. We had too many guys out there who are below-average 3-point shooters. A high-efficiency 3-point shooter would help us at the end of games. More than anything, the Grizzlies are one of the league's best teams. Sometimes you lose games on the road against the league's best teams.
5-10 from 3 not including being fouled on 1 3 tonight and the 2-6 guy ends up taking the last 2 3s to finish 2-8 I don’t get what Ime be thinking sometimes
Stone at some point has to start sending tapes to the league, a player doesn’t go from making 8-10 layups one game to 3-10 the next game when they finishing at 73% from 0-3ft He has to get stronger so when they hack his arms he doesn’t lose the ball, then again if he was SGA he would be on the line 15-21 times a game
Jalen isn't really that popular to people in the Philippines. He could use his family history to milk that market more sure, but your average Filipino fan cares way more about Steph/LeBron than Jordan Clarkson even if he actually played for the national team.
majority of filipinos probably think Clarkson hurts the national team they rather have true team players
That's cause he does hurt the team. Brownlee is more celebrated as an import even though he never actually made the NBA. They're not gonna like a bad player over there just cause of his ethnicity.
This is like the dude that came up with the masculinity and red pill talk.... At the end nobody should give a fork and live their life how they see fit. Spinning that toughness shet back on posters is also not the right way to go about it. The decent approach is to separate basketball players and one's private life from the start.
