It's preplexing to me. Give him run each game and if he is playing poorly pull him like Ime does with every other young prospect on this roster. At least with consistent burn, the Rockets can develop Cam. There has to be more to the story outside of Cam not getting playing time (before the injuries) due to his defensive lapses and tunnel vision. All of the young guys áre guilty of making mistakes on both ends of the floor and have glaring weaknesses that affect this team's ability to win games yet Cam is the only one who gets yanked from the rotation. Like reported before, it must be related to his attitude, which would makes sense to punish via DNP-CDs. I think Cam is a better prospect than Jalen ever was, so hopefully Cam can be profesional and Ime can live with Cam's growing pains.
Even if we accept this absurd premise, that Cam is ONLY a SF and can't play SG.... because it would ruin your narrative.... we just had a game with no Amen or Tari, with a Dillon Brooks who said after the game that Sengun wanted him to cut more but he was just too tired to do it.... even then Ime had Cam sitting out entire quarters. Now if we address your false narrative, Jalen Green can't do a single thing that Cam can't do. Cam is just a younger, stronger version of kraken that can actually shoot a basketball. The ONLY reason you'd say Cam can't play SG is because you don't want Jalen to lose minutes.
Ime is fairly hard headed to a fault but he has us 3rd in the West. Im not sure what other coach would've done that with this group of players. His rotations give me whiplash but he's far down the list of things I'm worried about. There are clearly things he looks for on the defensive end and if you don't do them, you don't play. It's why Jalen plays and Cam/Reed don't. FVV does them consistently and doesn't turn the ball over. But ultimately Ime has to have a breaking point with our backcourt. He has to know that they're not going to get it done at this point but thanks to Stone we can't trade Green until this offseason. I'd be shocked if there wasn't or isn't some icyness between Ime and Stone right now.
The goal isn't being 3rd in the West in January, it's winning a championship... or at least a playoff series. Without Cam absolutely going off last night, the Rockets lose to an injured Mavs team which would have made 3 in a row. This team will not win any playoff series unless Ime gets better
I think we saw what I've been seeing for a while now, FVV is not the answer. Put Jalen ON BALL, play Cam OFF BALL. Rockets will play faster, get more opportunity baskets and play better defensively. I can't believe that lineup is not implemented more. And when Amen gets back, a lineup of Jalen, Cam, Amen, Dillon and Jabari will be unstoppable! You have both scoring and defense.
Jalen really isn't a competent ball handler, run things through Sengun with Green cutting and Cam spacing the floor.
cams nonsense is selfish play jalens nonsense is cams nonsense plus bad shooting and being a panzy on and off court
If he does, then Ime deserves some heat. I'm with Cam on this. He has every right to be pissed. Yes, he had a bad start to the year, but he was relegated to garbage time mostly. He wouldn't even have seen any minutes last year had Tari not gotten injured. And the same situation has played out this season. Ime has to find a way to get him on the floor for 15-20 minutes a night. I get that Amen is ahead of him in the rotation and deservedly so. And Dillon is having a great year. But with Tari's bum leg jeopardizing another season, Jalen alternating between good and bad games, and Fred shooting horribly most nights, there's no reason Cam can't be a regular in the lineup.
He's a wing scorer, he is supposed to score. He's not a primary ball handler. So long as he maintains a high TS% and doesn't turn the ball over, he's doing his job as a wing on offense.
Exactly. Ime definitely needs work too. We haven't seen any development put of Reed which is disappointing.. I hope the G League serves him better because he's terrified to shoot. Thing that bothers me about Cam is he tries to act like a superstar. I love the confidence but he needs to tone it it down. We want Jason Terry not Harold Miner. Very well said. We're closer than I thought we'd be. Good thing is the league is wide open. Gotta take advantage of the opportunity. OKC is going to be a problem going forward
So you dislike Green but support how Cam plays? Help me understand that perspective. Cam isn't doing his job. He's a selfish "me first" player. He's a losing player as it stands. Toss him in a trade and nobody misses him
selfish scorers are ok as long as their offensive rebounding and steals and charges drawn outweigh their turnovers and their TS is at or above 60%
We're ahead of schedule and still analyzing the pups. They need to know what they have to take the next step and Ime is weeding the weak ones out. We'll see if Cam survives. As of right now I don't think anyone not named Amen Thompson is a lock to be on this team in 5 years with Jabari a distant second.
There would be nothing wrong with how Jalen plays if he could shoot a basketball. Scoring efficiently is what a wing is supposed to do. Cam had an absurd TS% in the 90's last night... Jalen's was in the 40's. Do you understand why is like one over the other? Let's make it a baseball example. You have 2 power hitters that strike out a lot.... but one manages an .850 OPS while the other.... who is the starter, has a Maldonado type OPS in the 400's They are both the same type of hitter, but one is actually good at it.
And Cam has a terrible TS% this season. So we have a ballhog low efficiency chucker that doesn't pass...and has attitude problems. Gee Ime is incompetent for not playing him You act like Cam has played so well to force himself playing time, he hasn't outside of a couple games all year.
