Great compilation of stats about Jalen Green and Houston Rockets.
1/ Last season, I wrote about RJ Barrett limiting the Knicks. The Knicks are 11-2 since OG’s first game post RJ trade
This season’s RJ is Jalen Green
I’ll cover:
Jalen vs. his fellow Rockets
Jalen vs. the league
How the Rockets play w/o Jalen
Regressinghttps://t.co/tUIrl3dxhw pic.twitter.com/tllhASfEby— NBA Stats (@sports_mediocre) January 26, 2024
by bestanealtcizgi
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Oh my goodness. This is depressing.
You kinda realize that at the beginning of every game we are going out of our way to include him, but HOLY CRAP I didn’t realize it was that bad.
Where are the stats?
I was told by people that don’t understand stats that he’s on track to be Booker.
i think he should be relegated to the bench atp tbh. idk im a big jalen believer but this is solid proof that jalen is just not it rn
Maybe i’m getting downvoted but i still have hope dude is getting used to the new system we should give him time, we can draw conclusions at the end of the season but i still think he can be him.
thankful sengun and jabari are panning out so far
2/ Jalen Green vs. his fellow Rockets: 9 Rockets have played 400+ minutes. Among them, Jalen ranks: Last in: eFG% TS% WS/48 +/- on-off Bottom 3 in: ORB% STL% BLK% BPM VORP Above average in: AST% (3rd) TOV% (4th) Are his teammates just great? Let’s compare to the league…
3/ Jalen Green vs. the league: There are 145 players with more than 1K minutes. Jalen Green ranks: Bottom 10% in… WS/48 ORB% On-off eFG% TS% Bottom 30% in… BPM VORP STL% BLK% +/- Bottom 60% in… AST% TOV% Top 40% in… Nothing And it gets worse
4/ Rockets w/o Jalen Green: Net rating of Rockets w/o Jalen vs. past 5 champs: +6.6: Rockets w/o Jalen +3.4: ’23 DEN +5.6: ’22 GSW +5.7: ’21 MIL +5.7: ’20 LAL +6.0: ’19 TOR The Rockets played better w/o Jalen than any of the last 5 NBA champs But is it just because of Jalen?
5/ Rockets starters/Jalen Green (JG) net ratings: JG + FVV: -2.3 JG – FVV: -6.9 FVV – JG: +14.3📷 JG + Alpy: -2.2 JG – Alpy: -8.9 Alpy – JG: +10.1📷 JG + Brooks: -4.7 JG – Brooks: -1.4 Brooks – JG: +11.5📷 JG + JSJ: -2 JG – JSJ: -6.2 JSJ – JG: +3.4📷
6/ Most played rotation players: JG + Tate: -3.6 JG – Tate: -3.2 Tate – JG: +14.1📷 JG + Aaron: -5.7 JG – Aaron: -2.8 Aaron – JG: +8.5📷 JG + Jeff: -9 JG – Jeff: -1.5 Jeff – JG: +4📷 JG + Tari: -3.1 JG – Tari: -3.4 Tari – JG: +21📷 Starters and rotation player w/o Jalen = 📷
7/ Of the 8 other Rockets with the most minutes… ALL 8 have a +/- per 100 of at least +3 while playing without Jalen 5/8 are better than +10(!) without Jalen This team thrives with ANYONE but Jalen Green It’s him, hi, he’s the problem, it’s him
8/ Jalen Green hasn’t missed a game this season, so we can’t see what the team is like without him for full games. BUT… In his last 2 seasons, he missed 21 games In: 32-111 (22% wins) Out: 10-11 (48% wins)
9/ Regressing Jalen Green is hurting the Rockets, but maybe you believe it’s worth it to continue to develop him It’s not And that’s because he’s not getting better. If anything, he’s getting worse…
10/ Jalen Green career worsts this season: 2P% 3P% eFG% TS% ORB% STL% TOV% Career bests: BLK% (by 0.1) Jalen Green, like most rookies, started out pretty bad. But uniquely, he’s not only not improving, he’s regressing
11/ Bonus: my favorite Jalen Green stat 190 players played 1500+ min in ‘23 177 players played 1500+ min in ‘22 Jalen Green was dead last in box outs both seasons In his first 2 seasons, he had 5 total boxouts in 4,700+ minutes He doesn’t do the big things or the little things
12/ Summary: Jalen < all his teammates Jalen < other players with starter minutes The Rockets play at a championship level when he’s on the bench The Rockets were far better in games he missed in his career He’s not getting better. He’s getting worse Please. Bench. Jalen. Green
I don’t want to bench Green, especially for Cam because he needs to keep grinding as to not be the next Green and we might as well let Green play this out unless we make a big trade soon.
When banging 38 YO Instathots he don’t miss.
This is objectively terrible. I wasn’t high on Jalen as this season went on, and was thinking it was time to bench him – but seeing this makes me want to trade him. I’d rather Amen and even Cam take his minutes.
The fact that the conclusion of this thread suggests that benching Jalen will make Rockets a championship caliber team tells me all I need to know. 😂
Great stats. They back up what many of us have been saying the past two years.
Does anyone know of a good fundamentals summer camp we can send Jalen to.
He might be the worst starter in the nba
Jalen has 36-9-4 on 12-20 through the 3rd quarter after this tweet dropped