This game against the Lakers, after experiencing overtime, the Rockets successfully won the game, it can be said that this game belongs to the Rockets' eye show Jaylen Green's night, in this game Green played 38 minutes to blast 32 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, including 13 of 21 shots, 4 of 7 three points, not only set a new scoring career high, but also the only rookie among all rookies to twice bomb 30+.
In fact, this season Green's performance is quite questionable, in the third game of the rookie season, he shot 30 points in a single game, making everyone think that he is a natural son, and a higher starting point also allows fans to have higher expectations for him, but as the season deepens, Green's performance is not as expected, and in addition to the stage of changing the shooting posture, there are more and more voices for Green, many people think that he will be a parallel goods list, but from February, Green has completely evolved to another level. Take the game against the Lakers, Green is obviously a lot more comfortable with the game, there is a ball without the ball can be switched at will, by reading the game to deal with different defenses, in their own offense or passing the ball to teammates can grasp the timing well.
More critical is that Green is more and more leadership temperament, the fourth quarter of the previous game Green is no sense of existence on the court, in this game against the Lakers, Green took over the game at a critical time, the fourth quarter green successively stood up to score to help the team bite the score, in the overtime stage, Green came up to take the lead, continuous hits to establish a lead, overtime one person scored 10 points. In an interview after the game, he said that overtime was against Anthony, and it was clear that he had a success, scoring points under Anthony's defense in several consecutive rounds. In addition, on the defensive end, Green is also more focused, his progress is reflected in the game, in the fourth quarter of the game with 5 minutes and 54 seconds left, the two sides 109 draw, in James once attacked the basket when Green gave a big hat, in the single defense of the ball holder will also try to give the ball pressure.
Green's progress is obvious to the naked eye, but he still has a major shortcoming that cannot be ignored, that is, his ability to create fouls, it can be seen that Green has only averaged 3.4 free throws per game this season, and 2 of 2 free throws against the Lakers. Going to the free throw line is a necessary scoring tool for a scorer, but for Green that number is too small. Green's free throws are rarely for two reasons, the first is because he is a rookie player, the newcomer in the NBA league is very undervalued, even if it is sometimes ignored by the foul referee, when there are 34 seconds left in the fourth quarter of the game against the Lakers, Green broke through to the basket and was blocked by James, obviously Wei Shao defensive pusher, but the referee did not whistle, if the ball blows foul may not have overtime.
In addition, it is Green's own reasons, his body is too thin, the ability to resist is poor, which is what he urgently needs to improve, if the strength is trained, then there will be a greater advantage in the confrontation. Then the ability to make free throws will naturally improve, when he has 8-10 times per game to stand on the free throw line, you can imagine how many points he can get per game, of course, this improvement will be a topic for him in the offseason.