People are on autopilot complaining about the guy. I thought it was a disservice to leave him out of the 2nd half like that, he played well last night. He's got to tighten up the ball security and I'd like to see him come back from the offseason noticeably stronger but good grief. 15/5/5 and competent defense in 20ish minutes? What else is the guy supposed to do?
He also had 3 turnovers in those 20 mins. I don’t think he had a disastrous night and I don’t think he needs to be traded for a pack of peanuts, but Ime definitely needs to manage his rotation much like he did last night. Whatever is working that night without any preconceived ideas of who should be in the rotation at what time. Why gift JG minutes when the team was performing better with Amen, Cam, and FVV?
Amen was our hero again, what a smart and likeable player. He just plays to win, all the flash is out of necessity. Surprised we were able to win, especially with Jalen and Sengun playing like pansies and Brooks a non-factor. Don’t care for the injury narrative, when you play, you should be able to go.
Green played fine. Amen played better and that’s where most of his minutes went. Green probably should have had Brooks minutes.
Let's see. I doubt bol bol will score like he did against other team. Rockets have a tendency of allowing benchwarmers beat them.
Bol has decent Per 36 Minutes numbers. With Orlando 15 and 10, and now it is 19 and 12.......obviously he would never play those minutes.... He is probably one of the Scrubs that has at least some potential.
Woof, Cam was credited with 4 turnovers in 20 minutes. Not here to gas up Jalen, he wasn't perfect. He had that shaqtin stretch in the 2nd but he played well overall and was absolutely the one on the floor during the 2nd/3rd quarter pushes to stay ahead of the Suns. Not Cam. What you've done here is autopilot complain about Jalen based on preconceived notions. I respect your opinions on here but this one just isn't rooted in reality. Cam was good. Jalen was better. Amen was heroic. If you want to pan one of these guys, let it be Dillon Brooks. He was awful, stupid fouls, complaining, bricks, fouled out and talk about not just robotically playing rotations why was he closing the game (until he fouled out)? He's becoming the black hole on offense we didn't want. Amen is the best defender on the team. Y'all want a change to the starting 5, let's try FVV-Jalen-Amen-Jabari-Alpe.
I think you are making me out as a Jalen hater. I’m just being realistic. He and Cam can share minutes or even be on the court at the same time depending on the situation. I’m just saying Ime did a good job with the rotations and you get butt hurt.
Dillon is what he is--as a veteran on the first year of a sizable four-year contract, he's not going to get benched the rest of the season unless he consistently turns in nothing performances like last night, game after game. Every player has bad games. I will say though, his defense has dropped off--as we discussed, he's probably playing through injury right now. But I think the most you can expect is for his minutes to go down a bit. He'll keep his starting role and keep playing at least in the high 20s for minutes per game. I would consider trading Dillon during the offseason though. Seems like a drastic step after just one year, but I think a lot of contenders would value him highly since his 3P% got so much better and contending teams always need another defensive stopper. (Provided they can be convinced that his defensive decline was indeed due to an injury.) With Amen, Tari, and Cam all needing minutes at the 3 next season, I think Dillon is a bit expendable.
When Brooks was signed, I thought it would squeeze Tari's minutes. Well, Tari has not been playing a lot due to injuries. But the emergence of Amen and Cam makes the wing spots more crowded anyway.
I think Amen reads plays better too on offense, so he is in the right place at the right time most of the time.
Cam plays at the 2, Amen is the backup pg and Tari is always injured. Dillon isn't going anywhere IMO.
I still see Cam as more of a 3, since he is such a play finisher type and really struggles as a secondary ballhandler/playmaker. Whether Tari is going to be injury-prone or is just having a bad year is TBD; this is the first time he's really shown issues like this. I hope it isn't a sign of long-term problems with his legs. Another thing to keep in mind--there seems to be a consensus forming that the top talents in this upcoming draft class are, in no particular order: Zaccharie Risacher (F) Reed Shephard (G) Cody Williams (F) Alex Sarr (F/C) Rob Dillingham (G) Nikola Topic (G/F) Mattas Buzelis (F) Ron Holland (F) So if we keep the Brooklyn draft pick we're likely to have even more depth at the 1-3 spots, which puts even more pressure to free up minutes. (Unless we end up with Sarr or the pick ends up worse than we're currently thinking.)
Last 2 minute report gave the Suns the moral victory. Apparently Durant didn't foul Sengun when he clearly didn't allow him freedom of movement and Fred should have been called for running Booger over. Feels weird being on the other side for once but the Durant bump on Alpe was 100% a foul. Not sure why they're claiming it wasn't
No, I'm not doing anything you speak for yourself. You replied to my post, but you are literally not being realistic. Jalen was a +6 and was actually playing decent defense. Cam was a -2. Cam had more turnovers and less assists. Noticed how you didn't bother answering my question about why Dillon Brooks was playing in the 4th if earning those minutes is the way it works. Let's go ahead and extend it to Cam so you don't have to avoid it.
