Jalen Green may not be an All NBA defender but he is still a plus defender. His defense has really improved this year due to him getting much stronger compared to his previous seasons. Also there's a difference to his offensive success recently in the way he plays. He's not forcing his shots like before and is much more patient in taking advantages in mismatch. Another thing that really opened things up for him is him passing out to open teammates when driving into a collapsed defense, which makes defenses more hesitant in collapsing in on him on drives now
i think plus defender is a stretch. He is more like treading water. Ime coming in has certainly changed his mentality on that end, but he still lacks versatility, and still struggles with screens. Also doesn’t seem like he gets many deflections or forced turnovers(have not checked pbp to bolster claim) If you are not going to be absolutely elite at the POA, you need to have versatility and/or some sort of paint presence to be a positive defender as a small guard.
That is a very good point, The rockets does not need breakout games from time to time, they need consistent production. I would rather have Jalen score 20 ppg if they would have a winning season and even playoff contention. He needs to pick his spots and shots and keep himself healthy and available all the time.
@@roy_calcifersantos1002 yeah and you perfectly summed it up, I understand all guys have slumps but for the majority of the season it's good to start with that momentum
@@chuancey0389he has had stretches like this every year if his career (usually right around this time) Absolutely not convinced until he strings it together for a full season, and of course this is only regular season basketball.
i dont think jalen was bad at all this season, his shot just wasnt falling this season, happens to all the greats, hope thats the case for him, hes become more overall this season tho
My friend, I watched every single Rockets game this season so i can assure you that he was terrible. He was one of the least efficent scorers and he made tons of turnovers in so many matches.
It's good for JG that he has a proper coach now that demands him to make the next step and play the game the right way. Otherwise he would have been the next inefficient volume shooter in the league. Lets hope he stays with both feet on the ground and keep working on his game.
If the Rockets can find the right fit with Amen, Jalen and VanVleet with them all being guard type players, even Brookes to some extent. The Rockets have a great future with great young players like Sengun. Man Sengun is a beast. Not to mention the 19 YEAR OLD CAM WHITMORE!!!! Like that kid is special. This whole roster really is. I see a few conference finals appearances starting in the next 4-5 years.
you’ve got to pay all of those guys is the issue. If they all break out at the same time frame, they won’t be able to retain them all without being in absolute luxury tax hell
the Rockets really got their work cut out for them for everybody to see... and thats to keep Jabari Sengun & Green around & let them work it out under Ime...Amen & Cam aint goin nowhere anytime soon, so... just lock'em up & roll wit it.... i see Jabari getting a lil quicker too at his size on his way to possibly be a legit 3 at the end of the day, a position that is still the premium for the ultimate success imo.... unless you got Jokic of course... speaking of, he could still become the face of the Rockets, or "just" be the Nuggets Aaron Gordon at the least.... cause if Sengun & Green can halfway copy what Jokic & Murray are puttn up, rockets are playoff locks with what they got on the roster... and i saw them two working on it just b4 Sengun got hurt as they were in their own ways too many times in their 2 man game when they went to it earlier this season....... the Space is the limit for these Rockets is what im tryna say lol
Two of these breakout games are against the Wizards which don't play any D. A WNBA player could light up the Wizards. He needs to keep this up till the season is over for me to be a believer.
Very disingenuous to think any team in the wnba could light up the wizards.. the worst nba team is still beating the best wnba team and it’s not close..
Sengun competition at center is putrid, hes ony shown 2-3 months of good play this season, Jalen has shown for 3 years in a row that hes a strong 2nd half of season player. He just needs to put it together for majority of the year to stop all te casuals hate and prove hes one of the next generation superstars the nba officials believe him to be.
That first half must be absolutely horrible if his second half surge brings his averages to 42% FG for the season. It's easier to find a scoring guard than a skilled big man in todays NBA too.
Sengun has literally been more consistent than Jalen all three years in the league, so thinking this breakout season is a fluke is like you're smoking a Crack pipe
@@borntokilldiazhow was sengun consistent his 1st 2 yrs? He did not play defense and ave. About 12 - 13 pts😂 had lots of turnovers cuz of his fancy passing.
@betfonte3366 his per 30 minutes was insane? Just cause they played bums over him like Christian Wood, Daniel Theis and Bruno Fernando doesn't mean he didn't go off in his minutes. Yeah his defense was bad but he always consistently had offense and passing
@@borntokilldiaz check the stats dude. 1st 2 years he was mediocre. If he was playing well and not a turnover machine did u think franco will get playing time? Silas was mad at sengun cuz he keeps doing his between the legs pass that causes turnovers. He did that 2x in the crucial part of a game and it caused them the game. He is very good right now, but if u ever watched the rockets in the past some of their losses was caused by alpi being fancy in his passing and not defending.
Get rid of sengun defense been a lot better honestly and they are playing at a better pace package him up with Tate with the nets pick and trade up to get sarr
You can play fast paced basketball against Wizard and spurs. They are horrendeous perimeter defense teams. Lets talk about Being better without sengun after we face teams that can run too and force us to half court basketball. Then you will pray for jalen's step back pull up 3s to hit.
I think Jalen Green is probably going to have a long career, but I see him more of a Jamal Crawford type. He'll have flashes of brilliance and make for some great highlights. I don't know if the production is sustainable when the winning streak has been against 5 bad defensive teams and even the Cleveland game was without Mobley + an awful Donovan Mitchell game.
1. The Cavs have been a top 5 defensive without Mobley and have played almost half the season without Mobley 2. Mitchell played poorly in part due to Jalen’s defense
This is such crap and do you know the cavs were the second best east team without garland and mobley? Please don't discount that win. We are without sengun, tari and cam.
I’m sorry but every player has cooked the Wizards this season. He was going against Johnny Davis and Richaun Holmes. Prove he can do it against real comp and we can talk about breaking out 😂
Even if he hadn't started breaking out fully yet moving on from a 21 year old this obviously talented just because his shooting splits aren't good enough yet is a pretty wild idea. I don't think the rockets were as ready to move on from him as you think.
I feel like my input might be meaningful since I'm a lifelong rockets fan, but I believe the reason they were supposedly willing to move on from him is because if he's not scoring the ball efficiently then he doesn't really contribute anywhere else.
U compared josh Jackson averaging 15 point compared to jalen being the leading scorer on a team making a push for a playin spot averaging 26 over his last 10 lmaoooooo what are u even saying
Your acting like he was the worst player in the NBA his first 2 years lmfaooo 😂he was literally first team all rookie and had a decent-good rookie yr showed a lot of scoring flashes than was a first option on a bad team averaging 22 4 and 4 on 54ts for a 20/21 yr old sg that isn’t no where near as bad as your making it out to be he’s literally still 22 lol to act like he was just so bad his first 2 years is hilarious also has 35 30 point games he’s shown a lot more flashes than players that have became stars in year 4/5 or even later in their career
i get still thinking he could become a more consistent player, potentially a great 6th man. but i think the idea he is going to be some perennial star is far fetched. And you didn’t explicitly state that, but i see so much JG copium that he will still be a top 10 level player within a few years. Guys that are top end stars are usually already playing around a top 50 level by their 3rd/4th season, which he clearly is not at that level. I also just never saw the path for that level. Dame and Steph are the only two players around his size that have been in that convo the last few years, and those guys are all time level offensive players.
@@whiterose8601 why are we so cynical and mean spirited about everything? My goodness. Every little thing people accuse strangers of being disingenuous or flat out lying or exaggerating. He can jump really high and was projected to be a star player, he was the #2 pick in the draft. My saying “I knew” he’d be good isn’t a stretch or a reach. Michael Porter Jr. if that’s his name was a ball hog and they played my turn your turn, they fired the coach, he had adversity, his 3pt percentage wasn’t good, his shot selection was questionable, they have a lot of young talented players (before this year) all looking to make a name for themselves. His rookie year I thought he was the next Great NBA player, that the league was in trouble, I thought he’d be what Anthony Edwards’s has solidified himself as over the past 2 seasons, he’s not that obviously, doesn’t play Defense like Anthony or have the well rounded game or leadership ability, however I was super high on him from the beginning and was being proved wrong by his lackluster inconsistent play and now I’m being proven right it seems. But man, we gatta chill thinking everybody’s an NPC or a troll or just saying stuff. It’s gotten out of hand. This isn’t an artificial space, I’m a real genuine human being with authentic opinions and ideas, we have to return to where we give strangers the benefit of the doubt unless they’re just being ridiculous, but even then sometimes ideas that aren’t our own or opinions that aren’t ours seem to be ridiculous, we have to be aware of our own propensity for bias.
Please don't compare JG second half to Josh Jackson... we have seen JG do this every season, but not this effective, and he's doing more than just scoring the ball, and the most important thing is that he is winning games. The game has slowed down for him, and he is learning to use his speed, and he is the most confident that he has ever been. And I disagree the second half of the season is harder bc teams are trying to make the play off push and fight for seeding. But teams that are eliminated are playing younger guys and guys who didn't get the opportunity, but that doesn't mean it's weaker than the first half of the season.
Jalen has always played his best post all star break. Was like that last season and the year before. Glad you pointed that out because I was slightly worried about this being just that. This time it does feel different though
This is true, but look at the Cavs game from a couple days ago or the two Suns games before that. 26/11/4, 34/9/4 and 34/5/2 just in those 3... small sample size, but he's been doing this against all sorts of teams all month.
Worst idea. Sengun-Wembenyama-Chet are next generation super centers after Jokic-Embiid-Ad. Without sengun, Rockets is just a team that wins important games time to time and throws tons of games against averadge teams.
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Jalen Green may not be an All NBA defender but he is still a plus defender. His defense has really improved this year due to him getting much stronger compared to his previous seasons. Also there's a difference to his offensive success recently in the way he plays. He's not forcing his shots like before and is much more patient in taking advantages in mismatch. Another thing that really opened things up for him is him passing out to open teammates when driving into a collapsed defense, which makes defenses more hesitant in collapsing in on him on drives now
i think plus defender is a stretch. He is more like treading water. Ime coming in has certainly changed his mentality on that end, but he still lacks versatility, and still struggles with screens. Also doesn’t seem like he gets many deflections or forced turnovers(have not checked pbp to bolster claim) If you are not going to be absolutely elite at the POA, you need to have versatility and/or some sort of paint presence to be a positive defender as a small guard.
Bro is good but I'm still not convinced, like we need a 3/4 of a season sample size but it's good to see bro get his stuff together
That is a very good point, The rockets does not need breakout games from time to time, they need consistent production. I would rather have Jalen score 20 ppg if they would have a winning season and even playoff contention. He needs to pick his spots and shots and keep himself healthy and available all the time.
@@roy_calcifersantos1002 yeah and you perfectly summed it up, I understand all guys have slumps but for the majority of the season it's good to start with that momentum
Yeah I don’t like people jumping the gun on a 10 game stretch he might just be on a hot streak right now
@@chuancey0389he has had stretches like this every year if his career (usually right around this time) Absolutely not convinced until he strings it together for a full season, and of course this is only regular season basketball.
I mean without sengun the rockets are 8-2 and are in striking distance of the play in. 2 games back@@roy_calcifersantos1002
i dont think jalen was bad at all this season, his shot just wasnt falling this season, happens to all the greats, hope thats the case for him, hes become more overall this season tho
My friend, I watched every single Rockets game this season so i can assure you that he was terrible. He was one of the least efficent scorers and he made tons of turnovers in so many matches.
Bro was mad about being a second option
But he's going to he from now on and it will benefit the rockets a lot if he stays at that
@@shaazandrade5069 no rockets should trade green to let him flourish as the no1 he doesnt fulfill his potential with alperen
Nah his head was messed up by the same thing that messes up young men .... women and their trifling crazyness
@@joskaizer9521rockets should trade sengun joe Jaren Jackson
@@joskaizer9521if jalen goes to spurs, its over nba😊
It's good for JG that he has a proper coach now that demands him to make the next step and play the game the right way. Otherwise he would have been the next inefficient volume shooter in the league. Lets hope he stays with both feet on the ground and keep working on his game.
Even my mom would have a breakout game against the Wizzard
Jalen Green needs to be our number one scoring option while Sengin just keeps doing what he's doing if Houston is going to succeed
houston needs a superstar if they want to truly be a top end contender, and i just don’t see that from either of them.
If the Rockets can find the right fit with Amen, Jalen and VanVleet with them all being guard type players, even Brookes to some extent. The Rockets have a great future with great young players like Sengun. Man Sengun is a beast. Not to mention the 19 YEAR OLD CAM WHITMORE!!!! Like that kid is special. This whole roster really is. I see a few conference finals appearances starting in the next 4-5 years.
Cam and Tari are beasts. I honestly think with Tari the rockets wouldve been 8th-9th seed right now.
you’ve got to pay all of those guys is the issue. If they all break out at the same time frame, they won’t be able to retain them all without being in absolute luxury tax hell
yeah you right.
He so sharp pure basket
its against the wizards... chill bro
it's not just the wizards game. he's been very good against all different types of teams lately.
the Rockets really got their work cut out for them for everybody to see... and thats to keep Jabari Sengun & Green around & let them work it out under Ime...Amen & Cam aint goin nowhere anytime soon, so... just lock'em up & roll wit it.... i see Jabari getting a lil quicker too at his size on his way to possibly be a legit 3 at the end of the day, a position that is still the premium for the ultimate success imo.... unless you got Jokic of course... speaking of, he could still become the face of the Rockets, or "just" be the Nuggets Aaron Gordon at the least.... cause if Sengun & Green can halfway copy what Jokic & Murray are puttn up, rockets are playoff locks with what they got on the roster... and i saw them two working on it just b4 Sengun got hurt as they were in their own ways too many times in their 2 man game when they went to it earlier this season....... the Space is the limit for these Rockets is what im tryna say lol
Dude's been a lock for me when it comes to props on FD 25+ points or PRA HE GOT A FAMILY NOW 🤣🤣
42 points i wouldnt call that a breakout game... especially only shooting 3s pretty much. In a soft defenseless leauge.
You should break down the clips not just show them in the background
Two of these breakout games are against the Wizards which don't play any D. A WNBA player could light up the Wizards. He needs to keep this up till the season is over for me to be a believer.
Very disingenuous to think any team in the wnba could light up the wizards.. the worst nba team is still beating the best wnba team and it’s not close..
Sean Marks is punching the air right now
Rockets were not gonna trade JG…no source coming from the rockets said he was available, only rival GM’s speculating on our roster
Sengun competition at center is putrid, hes ony shown 2-3 months of good play this season, Jalen has shown for 3 years in a row that hes a strong 2nd half of season player. He just needs to put it together for majority of the year to stop all te casuals hate and prove hes one of the next generation superstars the nba officials believe him to be.
That first half must be absolutely horrible if his second half surge brings his averages to 42% FG for the season.
It's easier to find a scoring guard than a skilled big man in todays NBA too.
Sengun has literally been more consistent than Jalen all three years in the league, so thinking this breakout season is a fluke is like you're smoking a Crack pipe
@@borntokilldiazhow was sengun consistent his 1st 2 yrs? He did not play defense and ave. About 12 - 13 pts😂 had lots of turnovers cuz of his fancy passing.
@betfonte3366 his per 30 minutes was insane? Just cause they played bums over him like Christian Wood, Daniel Theis and Bruno Fernando doesn't mean he didn't go off in his minutes. Yeah his defense was bad but he always consistently had offense and passing
@@borntokilldiaz check the stats dude. 1st 2 years he was mediocre. If he was playing well and not a turnover machine did u think franco will get playing time? Silas was mad at sengun cuz he keeps doing his between the legs pass that causes turnovers. He did that 2x in the crucial part of a game and it caused them the game. He is very good right now, but if u ever watched the rockets in the past some of their losses was caused by alpi being fancy in his passing and not defending.
I sadly think it’s a fluke cuz wizards defense is a joke
Get rid of sengun defense been a lot better honestly and they are playing at a better pace package him up with Tate with the nets pick and trade up to get sarr
NBA, ranked 100 has players like Hartenstein and CP3 above him lol
He’s gonna be the rockets Anthony Edward’s
They are honestly better without Sengun. They are way better defensively and the other players play better without Sengun.
You can play fast paced basketball against Wizard and spurs. They are horrendeous perimeter defense teams. Lets talk about Being better without sengun after we face teams that can run too and force us to half court basketball. Then you will pray for jalen's step back pull up 3s to hit.
Jalen Green to Miami Heat
He still not consistent
You weird
I think Jalen Green is probably going to have a long career, but I see him more of a Jamal Crawford type. He'll have flashes of brilliance and make for some great highlights.
I don't know if the production is sustainable when the winning streak has been against 5 bad defensive teams and even the Cleveland game was without Mobley + an awful Donovan Mitchell game.
Does jamal crawford a starter and no. 1 Scorer of the team?
@@markiemack8383Jamal Crawford was the best 6th man ever
1. The Cavs have been a top 5 defensive without Mobley and have played almost half the season without Mobley 2. Mitchell played poorly in part due to Jalen’s defense
This is such crap and do you know the cavs were the second best east team without garland and mobley? Please don't discount that win. We are without sengun, tari and cam.
@@jadynhasstupid2275Manu ginobli!?!
I’m sorry but every player has cooked the Wizards this season. He was going against Johnny Davis and Richaun Holmes. Prove he can do it against real comp and we can talk about breaking out 😂
He didn't do it against the cavs?
@@PhuongNguyen-oc1lw He has been pooping all over the court for entire season xD. I know you want him to be great but he has so much to prove.
Even if he hadn't started breaking out fully yet moving on from a 21 year old this obviously talented just because his shooting splits aren't good enough yet is a pretty wild idea. I don't think the rockets were as ready to move on from him as you think.
I feel like my input might be meaningful since I'm a lifelong rockets fan, but I believe the reason they were supposedly willing to move on from him is because if he's not scoring the ball efficiently then he doesn't really contribute anywhere else.
This is the dad buff
U compared josh Jackson averaging 15 point compared to jalen being the leading scorer on a team making a push for a playin spot averaging 26 over his last 10 lmaoooooo what are u even saying
Jalen Green Father Time got him cooking 😭
He had 5 or 6 forty plus point games already it's not his first 40 piece
Your acting like he was the worst player in the NBA his first 2 years lmfaooo 😂he was literally first team all rookie and had a decent-good rookie yr showed a lot of scoring flashes than was a first option on a bad team averaging 22 4 and 4 on 54ts for a 20/21 yr old sg that isn’t no where near as bad as your making it out to be he’s literally still 22 lol to act like he was just so bad his first 2 years is hilarious also has 35 30 point games he’s shown a lot more flashes than players that have became stars in year 4/5 or even later in their career
Well what has his career achieve so far? Not to sink your boat, but what has the rockets achieve with him on the line up?
@@roy_calcifersantos1002We’re they still not rebuilding?
@roy_calcifersantos1002 you expecting a rookie to take a trash roster to the finals or something???? Get real
i get still thinking he could become a more consistent player, potentially a great 6th man. but i think the idea he is going to be some perennial star is far fetched. And you didn’t explicitly state that, but i see so much JG copium that he will still be a top 10 level player within a few years. Guys that are top end stars are usually already playing around a top 50 level by their 3rd/4th season, which he clearly is not at that level. I also just never saw the path for that level. Dame and Steph are the only two players around his size that have been in that convo the last few years, and those guys are all time level offensive players.
@@roy_calcifersantos1002bro not all players are like Luka getting all nba first team off the boat give the man some time
I knew this would happen
Sure you did
@@whiterose8601he’s been having a done year is it that hard to expect him to eventually get better
@@whiterose8601no way somebody could’ve predicted something that has happened the past couple years
@@whiterose8601 why are we so cynical and mean spirited about everything? My goodness. Every little thing people accuse strangers of being disingenuous or flat out lying or exaggerating. He can jump really high and was projected to be a star player, he was the #2 pick in the draft. My saying “I knew” he’d be good isn’t a stretch or a reach. Michael Porter Jr. if that’s his name was a ball hog and they played my turn your turn, they fired the coach, he had adversity, his 3pt percentage wasn’t good, his shot selection was questionable, they have a lot of young talented players (before this year) all looking to make a name for themselves. His rookie year I thought he was the next Great NBA player, that the league was in trouble, I thought he’d be what Anthony Edwards’s has solidified himself as over the past 2 seasons, he’s not that obviously, doesn’t play Defense like Anthony or have the well rounded game or leadership ability, however I was super high on him from the beginning and was being proved wrong by his lackluster inconsistent play and now I’m being proven right it seems. But man, we gatta chill thinking everybody’s an NPC or a troll or just saying stuff. It’s gotten out of hand. This isn’t an artificial space, I’m a real genuine human being with authentic opinions and ideas, we have to return to where we give strangers the benefit of the doubt unless they’re just being ridiculous, but even then sometimes ideas that aren’t our own or opinions that aren’t ours seem to be ridiculous, we have to be aware of our own propensity for bias.
Yea. Against Jorden poole's lock-down defense :D
jalen green was never that bad lmao. it’s only year three
Please don't compare JG second half to Josh Jackson... we have seen JG do this every season, but not this effective, and he's doing more than just scoring the ball, and the most important thing is that he is winning games. The game has slowed down for him, and he is learning to use his speed, and he is the most confident that he has ever been.
And I disagree the second half of the season is harder bc teams are trying to make the play off push and fight for seeding. But teams that are eliminated are playing younger guys and guys who didn't get the opportunity, but that doesn't mean it's weaker than the first half of the season.
Jalen has always played his best post all star break. Was like that last season and the year before. Glad you pointed that out because I was slightly worried about this being just that. This time it does feel different though
Wizards are also absolute garbage this aint no breakout
He already had this stat line in his rookie year
Stats mean nothing if you are not efficent.
Father green is a different man
I hope he'll take the lip and keep it up for next season
I believe in him🤘
If Thompson comes back next season shooting 33-35%from 3 idk.
If Thompson ever shoots that well, then he is an MVP candidate.
Jalen my NBA Goat
Bro it’s the wizards chill
Are all his breakout games against the wizards? Cuz I think that says more about the wizards than him lol
naw he started on this tear cooking the suns back to back
He played well against suns, kings and cavaliers😂
green is having his babydad strength
IMO, he looked amazing next to the wizards, who are trash compares to other teams. He’s a player to watch but has to prove he can cook good teams too.
This is true, but look at the Cavs game from a couple days ago or the two Suns games before that. 26/11/4, 34/9/4 and 34/5/2 just in those 3... small sample size, but he's been doing this against all sorts of teams all month.
@@Resaixo also very true, its gonna be a slow climb but i think he can become an absolute problem for other teams.
He also had good games against Clippers and Kings
@@TheMaggots 100%
What do yall think of trading Sengun to improve spacing
Are you dumb or stupid? Coz Sengun is arguebly one of your most reliable pieces and has been better than green😂
No
Worst idea. Sengun-Wembenyama-Chet are next generation super centers after Jokic-Embiid-Ad. Without sengun, Rockets is just a team that wins important games time to time and throws tons of games against averadge teams.