Says the guy who never had credibility. We aren’t going to gloss over your denigrating one of the best young pillars in the league. You don’t get a pass
Yeah, some of these Jabari "bad attitude" incidents are just subjective perception or hearsay. The widely circulated him yelling about Sengun "Get his ass out of here" thing was only from one random tweet with unclear sound. And last night's "not happy" was also debunked by clear video evidence. People who don't like Jabari take these misinformation and run with it, just like all the misinformation about everything on social media. A lot of it is agenda-driven.
Even cameramans were hyped up in the 4th yesterday night, lol. Jabari had no bad attitude whatsoever yesterday, maybe he was a little frustrated he didn't contribute as much as he'd like to but he was pretty hyped up and in good spiritis on those game winning plays.
@AuburnRocket is right. Jabari is literally a rookie man. Whatever he did in last season and summer league just shut it down. he’s starting over. Just do you
Let’s keep in mind how this started - ATW said that Jabari has to understand that his role right now is like Robert Horry’s. That produced an avalanche of posters screaming that the “Sengunatics” want Jabari to fail. Nobody wants Jabari to fail, but at this point, what he’s actually produced on the floor is one great defensive game against Giannis and a two game winning shots (one of which was a summer league game). That’s nice, but it’s far short of the reliable sniper and perimeter stopper he was advertised to be, and unfortunately, he hasn’t surprised us with any skills/talents that were omitted from his draft profile. As of today, his ability and contributions on the court are role player at best, and thus Robert Horry is a perfectly logical and fair comparison. If his shooting and defense rise to the level of draft day expectations, and if he develops other skills, then a different comparison will be warranted. In the meantime, we (and Udoka for that matter) aren’t going to advocate him getting more touches or plays run for him than his current productivity level merits. - especially if he continues to start.
This so called pecking order is based on performance, not on preference. Whoever plays better will get more opportunities to shine in my opinion. Ime Udoka is in charge. Stone and TF/ PF can't boss him around.
Jabari does best when he doesn’t have to think. Catch and shoot. Catch and drive. Rebound and put back.
Disagree - they’re pretty much non existent when playing outside of summer league and against starting lineup-level talent:
You're a mouthy little scamp aren't you, lol. Talking loud, saying nothing. You had your chance to back up your rhetoric. It's gone now kiddo. You and I know why you couldn't post a single quote to back up your bullshit. I thought you'd at least have the integrity to be honest about it but I guess I forgot about the alternate reality you Sengunatics live in. My bad. Your lying only makes any further exchange pointless. So I'm gonna leave you to it junior.
His at rim percentage is .75, much better than his college numbers. And he has increased at rim shots from last year's 15% to 20% of all his shots. His 3p% this season so far is 38%, TS% from 51% to 57%. The best season in Horry's career was 12 pt 6 reb on 36% 3pt shooting. And the context was about expectation, not comparing the current Smith to Horry. ATW said that he would be happy if Smith would be like Horry. It's kind of like saying you'll be happy if Jalen Green turns out to be like Cuttino Mobley.
Here you go, since he is lying about having been anti-Sengun, I spent 5 minutes looking up some of his posts. Not only was @34to11 a major Silas nuthugger, he also thought Wood was the future of the franchise, not Sengun. He thought Sengun was just a ball stopper with major physical limitations. LMAO Generally, this @34to11 is quite an unpleasant person. Whenever he had an opportunity, he would hate on Sengun. We can see this even now, when he selectively picks and posts the plus/minus of the only game where Sengun doesn't have the best +/- on the team, but when challenged to look at the whole season +/- (where Sengun is way ahead) - crickets. Basically, most of this guy's post history is about promoting a negative narrative about Sengun, and trying to provoke those who saw Sengun's talent when he did not. He was a big Silassss defender. No wonder, he thought Silas was the architect of a "historically efficient NBA offense" LMAO. He was also a big Royce White fan...no surprise there. Pushing a narrative about Royce White "having game" while blabbering about Sengun's "deficiencies". He also thought Zach Collins (who is one of Alpi's favourite victims) had a great track record against Sengun. He also likes to push a narrative that Sengun doesn't box out, when in reality, Sengun is one of the league leaders in box outs. Anyway, there's a lot more but I got tired of looking at this kid's posts. You can just see from the posts that the individual is an unpleasant, acidic, bitter person. Not worth arguing with.
Literally the guy that bumped this thread said he wants him to fail lol. YOU as well only pop up, among others, when he doesn't have his best of games. That's what gets me about this. If Jabari had a good game, this thread is on the 2nd or 3rd page. For people that constantly claim they wish for him to be at his best and all that you guys go really quiet when he actually does have good games. Also this whole talk of Ime being down on him is nonsense rubbish. This is the only game he didn't finish lol. You guys keep bringing up this "Ime doesn't let him finish games" narrative as if it is an every game thing when it was this ONE game he took him out and Ime explained why.
I tried to find that post, can you link me to it? I cannot find any post of anyone saying they "want him to fail". I saw that @Dredd made a few quite critical ones, but not saying he wants him to fail.
I honestly don't get it either. A lot of it is based on that one random tweet about him shouting at Sengun because I have no idea what Jabari has done to get a rap around here as being a bad teammate or person. If you watch his body language through the games its always nice, he selfishly passes up shots (if anything too much especially on nights when he's shooting well) and always fists pumps or cheers on teammates. I've seen him call for the ball, get looked away, then first pump if it results in a good play. By all acounts he's a complete team player. Yet I've seen one poster last year actually tell me he just couldn't root for Jabari because he's a bad guy. I'm just confused as to what he did for this treatment and it really is only here lol. Like on Rockets reddit or twitter people might feel like Jabari could play better but there isn't this "Bad teammate, bad guy" narrative that floats around here.
