Its time to discuss trading Jalen Green while he's still worth a damn

What? Who said he's averaging 17 fta?

Either that person is insane or you need remedial reading and lit classes

Seeing as you have a habit of misrepresenting others takes I assume it's a reading issue.

 

I really hope one day Jalen Green actually turns into a halfway decent player so that his hilarious apologists won't have to work so hard attempting to spin his dogshit performance anymore.

 

At this point, you're just saying the same things over and over. And no, neither Brewer nor Lin flashed like Green has. The most points Lin ever scored in his career is 38, and Green has already had four 40 points games. Corey Brewer never averaged more than 13 ppg. They are absurd comparisons, and I think you know it, which illustrates just how desperately you're grasping at straws for your strawman.

 

If JG still sucks by the end of rookie contract I'll star being concerned. Not until then.

 

by the time you start being concerned alperen sengun will be 4 years behind in his development
THIS IS WHY TANKING NEVER WORKS

rockets worship of trash players and top picks ie their low bb iq makes them the worst team in this decade...

 

JOFs are delusional!

 

If there's a good (different) coach for the remainder of his contract I'm 100% onboard with this. All this statistical analysis has questionable validity if a coaching variable comes into play. People are vastly underestimating coaching and culture impact. I'm not saying a great coach/GM will fix all of Green's issues but then again it's not just Green that's underperforming.

 

Fultz has had a couple of good games. I wonder when the would you rather have fultz or green thread will be up.

 

I gave you the benefit of the doubt you weren't projecting a player's worth based on a single game.

You presented the data as something typical of him when it was an outlier.

Learn to take criticism.

 

But but 17 free throws!

Why are we counting 40 point games?

Why not 45?

Why not 35?

How about we only count games over 25 points with 50% shooting? And only games that were wins...

Is there some other way I can contort the data to fit for you?

 

Linsanity dwarfed anything Jalen Green has done, and frankly, it's not remotely close.

You shouldn't even have entertained the comparison in the first place. At his peak, Lin was a scoring playmaker which isn't really comparable to a player like Jalen Green whose primary job is to score.

 

The Linsanity season he literally averaged 14ppg 6ass and 3 rebounds. Even during the Linsanity stretch, he averaged 22ppg and 8.7ass. He didn't eclipse ****. His highest scoring linsanity game was 38 points. Jalen's exceeded that figure 3 times this season. And Lin was doing that with one of the greatest offensive coaches around (you might have heard of him, he was in big with the Beard and Morey,) not Silas's weak as **** piss poor attempt at coaching.

 

No you just can't follow basic discussion. I specifically commented you talking about how Green had an equally bad game as Jabari against the Sixers. My comment was in reference to a single game because your comment was in reference to a single game and my point is Jabari can never have a productive offensive game with bad shooting nights unlike Green who can and has had in the past because of his ability to beat people off the dribble and draw contact at the paint.


Now chose one. You either are a dumbass who can't follow basic conversations through text or a troll.

 

He also was like 4 years older than Green when Linsantiy happened. God I really hope in 4 years the level of production of Lin during Linsanity will just be a slightly below average stretch for Green or else he severely derailed his trajectory.

 

I was replying to you and you were referencing a single game. How is that basic concept not getting through to you?

 

And during Linsanity, Lin had double digit assists 5 times. How many times has Jalen Green accomplished that?

Lin led his team to a 7 game win streak. Has Jalen Green even led the Rockets to a 3 game win streak?

 

We have 1 year after this to make a decision.....then it is do you tie up max money with him, or do you make him a RFA (hurts relationships)?

No, in fact the team's record is significantly better without Green than it is with him.

DD

 

Player A (2nd season):
Age 20
MPG: 35.0
FG%: .423
PPG: 22.1
FTA: 5.7
RPG: 3.2
APG: 3.4
SPG: 0.9
BPG: 0.3
TO: 3.1
Team Record: 24-58

Player B (2nd season):
Age 20
MPG: 34.3
FG%: .411
PPG: 21.9
FTA: 5.9
RPG: 4.0
APG: 3.6
SPG: 0.8
BPG: 0.2
TO: 2.9
Team Record: 13-44

Player A is Devin Booker and Player B is Jalen Green (of course). Those two sets of stat lines look remarkably similar to my eye, and I bring this up just to serve as a reminder of the way we sometimes fall into similar traps with how young players on crappy teams are talked about.

Check out these quotes from Zach Lowe in Booker's THIRD season (https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21339847/zach-lowe-phoenix-suns-eric-bledsoe-devin-booker-nba):

"Booker probably tops out as an average defender (or a little worse) in [his] prime."

"But Booker can become an offensive superstar, and he will look better someday on a good team, when he doesn't have to carry so much of the ball handling load."

:But prime Booker profiles more as Bradley Beal, or a more dribbly Klay Thompson who isn't as good on defense, than James Harden -- an All-Star, but not a foundational player."

All this sounds like you could copy and paste it to a piece on Green in 2023. Stay patient Rockets fans.

 

Jalen also "exceeded" 10 points or less 3 times this season.

12 games 15 or less cancels out the 10 games 30 or more.

The problem with Jalen is lack of consistency. Most future stars don't have the wild swings he does.

Repeating his 3 or 5 or 10 good games doesn't make the bad ones go away.

 

And Devin Booker is no longer with the team that drafted him......for a good reason.

DD