Is KPJ consciously envious of Green's 30-point streak?

No. That’s not the issue.

 

It could be that Porter is playing out of position, or its just MY imagination

 

I really wish people would stop chasing ghosts trying to find smoke so they can cry fire.

 

KPJ played great tonight. He managed to score pretty big buckets out of nothing when our players would throw him the ball with no time left on the shot clock.

I would rather he look to score rather than hesitate to hunt for assists.

 

I think this thread is reading too much into things that aren't there. KPJ is just not a natural point guard, or a particularly gifted distributor. Jealousy? Envy? All that stuff we have no clue about, and there hasn't been any evidence of KPJ and Jalen not getting along.

KPJ isn't doing anything maliciously, he's just playing out of position.

 

KPJ is not jealous of Jalen Green, IMO.

KPJ just doesn't have the awareness to move defenses consistently without scoring.

KPJ doesn't think the EASY pass is the best play.

 

I would rather him not iso, iso, iso.

 

it's not about hunting for assists with me. It's about passing to the open guy right beside you and that being enough for that possession.

people acting like his critics dont like KPJ, we dont like that he doesn't see the easy play in front of him.

 

Yeah that's the part of KPJ's game that I absolutely hate watching. It's not like he's a harden level isolation scorer (or even JCrawford yet) and it almost always ends up in a contested step-back or a grenade to someone else at the last moment. KPJ is much better when he's decisive and/or going downhill. He can actually make some pretty good passes off the drive and kick, it's just that he can't run an offense well at all, in my opinion.

 

He was problematic in the 1st half (15 shots, didn't convert at a higher rate), but significantly better in the 2nd half (11 shots, converting most of them).

That being said, I'm still not sure why Silas insists on gluing both of them together. In the 2 minutes that Green played without KPJ (beginning of the 2nd), Green scored 7 points going 3-4.

Both players need their minutes staggered, the lineups tonight without KPJ and Green looked disastrous.

 

Sometimes it feels like Silas is purposely destroying our player's rhythm with his rotations. It makes no sense to sit Green when he had just scored 7 straight, even if he's over the usual amount of minutes. It makes no sense to play Mathews, Christopher, KJ, Nix and Garuba together. I am just bamboozled by some of the lineups being shoved out there.

Maybe it's because we're not trying to win. Maybe it's because Silas just doesn't know what he's doing. I can see how much Green has improved, so I guess he's doing something right, but right now I don't think his coaching is particularly good.

 

This has been the case all year

 

I just watched an interview the other day where KPJ did mention that when Jalen does something good it hypes him up and he wants to do something good too. Said they feed off each other’s energy. Now you can take that a few ways. He definitely meant it in a positive way and it’s not that he sees Jalen as his competition, but for some reason in his mind he feels he needs to score too so that Jalen doesn’t have to carry the load on his own.

 

Nah, I think he was more caught up trying to prove himself against Kyrie and KD. As annoying as it was tonight, he has to find a balance BUT I love that KPJ and Green have that extra gear or it factor for the big games. They’ve shown multiple times this year. It’s rare to have that one dude on your team but I believe we have two of them and that could be special if it works all out.

 

Kpj gives off a lot of vibes. I don’t think jealousy is one. He and green seem close.

 

Threads like these is y boobythegreat enjoys calling any folks that like green, a cultist.

Kpj just sucks at being a point guard, finding ez shots for his teammates.

Man could shoot but has a hard time helping his teammates.

It's not that hard of a concept. He ain't jealous.

 

He tried to step up against Kyrie, the same way he went at Steph and other top tier guards this season.

Y’all don’t have to turn everything into a negative lol.

 

Maybe the staff wants him to put up another 50-point game to justify some past and future decisions, lol.