Just what the title says. If he has the ability to do it, we’ll see it within the first third or half of the season. He will lead the team to wins and consistently put up good performances for long stretches. Honestly if I don’t see a stretch of 10-15 consistently good games from him that translates to roughly .500 ball in the first half of the season then I might be ready to move on. That means scoring efficiently with at least average defense and some playmaking that leads the team to a decently long stretch of around .500 basketball.
Obviously this is going to come across as an overreaction given his performance last night. But if he remains inconsistent with a scoring burst every three or four games, then I just don’t see him taking the step he needs to keep pace with other young stars who will be competing for championships in their prime.
Devin booker averaged 25.9 points and the suns were 21-61 in his third year.
19-63 in his 4th year, he averaged almost 27
In fact it took it wasn’t until his 5th year that they started winning. He wasn’t that consistent, had issues with his 3 point shot creation, off ball movement, defense and turn overs. Look where he is now.
The though my that if Jalen doesn’t single handed my win us 15 games of the first 30 it’s time to move on is asinine.
You have a brand new coach that is implementing a lot of new concepts on both sides of the ball as well as new big name green agents joining. This was always going to take time to get them rolling.
I did not say he’d lead us to 15 wins in the first 30 games. I said he should lead us through a 10-15 game stretch of .500 ball in the first half of the season.
Booker was consistently scoring 25 a game. Let’s see if Jalen can do that
Their stats were identical year 2. He needs that same 3rd year jump
Right exactly, year three booker took a big jump, which if you look historically especially in this decade year three is the key year for guys to blossom into stars. If they cant make that leap then its most likely they are who they are and you cant expect any more giant leaps. Will note that year three booker also dealt with injury mid and late in year three and in all likelihood would of been even better if he got to his 70 game mark.
Personally I hate that greens game to game variance has such a low floor, and he hasn’t shown a game to game variance ceiling as high as booker had in his first three years, but we do have to give JG more time.
Another thing to note is bookers talent around him was way less than what JG has rn. We’re talking josh jackson, drafan bender, bledsoe, Marquese Chriss, and rockets legend danuel house. Booker was able to work with it
Yes, let’s put an unrealistic time limit on development. What if he shows it on the 31st game? Doesn’t count?
This season ?
People comparing him to devin booker are delusional. Third year Booker would have been a lot more efficient than he is was than and more than Jalen green is now.
Truth is, the superstars in todays league have broken out by year 3. If we’re still seeing year 2 Jalen than I think it’s fair to be making moves to move him to a significantly lesser role