Jalen Green Drops 42 Points on Wizards, Has He Finally Taken the LEAP!?

Jalen Green Drops 42 Points on Wizards, Has He Finally Taken the LEAP!?

In this video I’m going to break down jayen Green 42 points versus the Wizards tap in right now Enjoy the Rockets Chop Shop is your One-Stop shop for all your basketball needs for highlights analysis podcast we do it all here at the Rockets Chop Shop make sure you hit the like button on the videos that you watch if you enjoy them hit the Subscribe button to get

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Where coach adoka has taken this team from the first game where we saw them struggling against the uh Orlando Magic I think that was our first game but I just want you guys to peep this bro peep these actions and Peep how it engages The Defenders now I’m going to preface

This by saying the Wizards are a terrible defense but nonetheless even running this against air for our team is a hugee huge upgrade from where we were offensively and I think Kadoka does deserve some credit the first thing you’re going to see here is um they’re

At the bottom Jaylen and uh Jabari are going to run a little action where Jaylen rubs uh jabari’s man off to get him free uh to Fred right all of this is a dummy action look at the Washington Defender so they’re focus on the dummy action which is going to be what the

Rockets like to run a lot which is uh pick and roll um which Jabari shangu whoever it is and you’re going to get for Jabari it’s probably a pop he’s going to pop out for a three Jabari comes up to set the screen and instantly ghost the screen right ghosting it is

Like a slip but he ghost it into a pop so what that does for uh number 13 I don’t even know the numbers of some of these guys on I think that’s Jordan pool I’m not sure um but that keeps him in no man’s land he’s in la la land right here

Right now jabari’s probably open for the shot that’s an option but that’s really not what the play is about let’s go back to where Jaylen and a man are you can see here’s a real action once he sees Fred heading toward the corner he’s at am mana’s going to cut and that cut

Turns into a down screen or a pin down for Jaylen green and the man does a great job taking up two creates a shooting pocket for Jaylen into a nice that’s called the pocket right there that little circle gets him a nice great way to start the game great play design

Getting Jaylen initiated early getting him involved early um just a great way to start the game and get your your guy going one of of the things that Oka I’ve seen from him in in on the Celtics is that his offense is really made on capitalizing off a mismatches the issue

With the Rockets uh for a lot of our players they have not been good enough to capitalize on taking advantage of mismatches um Jaylen green earlier in the year a guy a setup like this he likely would have just attempted to just try to turn the corner on this and run

Into the teeth of the defense where you can see the patience develop here gets the ball out gets to really slow the pace down and I like this because if he was playing a big in a drop that should be a shot right because the guy is

Sitting in the paint but you get a guy that looks unathletic um is going to come up and guard you so what you need to do is let your spacers get to where they’re going to get and go ahead and cook so this is a guy that’s terrified

Of jaylen’s uh attack you can see he overselling to the back pedal all off balance Jaylen used that to his Advantage gives him a nice step into a step back pull up three that’s a great shot great shot maker league right you could miss those shots make those shots

It’s not really about the you know whether he’s efficient it’s about the process of getting um you know getting your shots off type of shot selections and everything else transition um you know getting into your offense fast is a thing they’re doing now the Rockets have

Been top 10 in Pace since the All-Star break and it really helps um you know helps our guys out because they don’t have to face the set defense makes it a lot easier to be able to attack once again Corey kissper was cooked in this game attacked he’s on a back pedal all

Out of positions you know doesn’t really know what he wants to do so jaylen’s just toying with him at this point able to get to the rim for and one once again hunting mismatches coach adoka is calling card Cory kissir is going to be the guy they’re going to hunt here for

The next couple of plays oneon-one with Jaylen team just clears out everybody just space and the guys knew the assignment the team knew the assignment shout out to Fred Dylan Jabari and a man just knowing the assignment of knowing and being disciplined enough to let your mismatches happen once again using their

Momentum against them pull up threes the only difference between this game and a game from like two months ago is as far as offensively as the shots are going in and he’s taking advantage of the type of plays he’s supposed to make whether it’s a slower footed guy guarding you you

Attack them downhill whether it’s a guy that going to play you off you shoot and it’s just simple like that basketball is a real easy game here you’re going to get uh Fred uh about he’s going to fake like he’s they’re going to do a little

Guard on guard action here but Fred just ghost that once again you get two-on-one with Jaylen um and they’re indecisive now I don’t know if the Wizards were supposed to trap this but they didn’t terrible defense by them um but you get a slower guy in front of you able to hit

The corner the help comes um and you pivot out and get into your mid-range shot which he’s been hitting at a high clip good bucket once again get the screen they had kispert um really just hunting him once again he he was being hunted terribly get the isolation on

Kisper don’t even let him get set use the speed speed get to the get to the uh to the cup easy easy bucket now you got a men as a screener which is a look I really really enjoy uh a man is you just so versatile he’s like a unicorn uh of a

Basketball player just a unique player you can use him everywhere on defense and on offense here is setting a screen for Jaylen ghes to screen and he’s able to roll to the basket and get a nice contested layup off and one um Amanda’s a screener is something I’m going to

Keep an eye on going forward and we’ll see what that that because he doesn’t have enough data on those plays to really make anything of it but we got to keep an eye on that when I say basketball is easy once again it’s not really about the shots made or anything

Like that it’s really about the process of it because that stuff scales up on this play here you’re going to see you’re going to get a high you know High screen with jock landelle at the three-point line you get a big in a drop if you guys watch my videos what should

Jaylen do if he sees a big in a drop I’ll let give you a couple seconds it’s like one of those PBS shows yes that’s right if you guess that he shoot shoot shoot it um if a big is given that much space then you are exactly correct and

That’s exactly what he does um this is a very shallow drop coverage so it’s it’s right at almost damn near at the screen does a great job using that jab step to get the big off of him and just creates a lot of space look at that space and

That’s that’s buckets so you get here um a screen Jack landelle again Holmes is still in a drop um and this is um after he’s been shut out for a while right he had that hot uh first quarter he went through a stretch of only scoring about

Three points they were trapping him in a half court and uh then they kind of got undisciplined now they’re playing him back in a drop again and this time he’s able to kind of bit them into a fake drive and then pull back into a three

Now I don’t like this shot but when he’s hot like you can take a couple of these you can take a couple of these um if he’s going to hit that at a higher clip I expect that but I don’t like that shot but when you’re hot you can take a

Couple of those another screen here they’re going to start trapping again but he rejects the screen he doesn’t want the Trap he wants to go score right so this is a terrible trap right but he rejects it nice you know onew dribble outside attacks the outside foot of the

Defender look at all that green grass in front of him right just like a running back that’s broken through the line of scrimmage you get downhill you get ready to put bro on the poster but check this out that is sick sickness I don’t know which one’s more

Impressive this layup or the one he did where he went uh scoop under Up and Under but this is one of the more impressive Jaylen green finishes Dam near one of the best finishes of this year um in the NBA look at Dylan Brooks my God it’s one of those nights quick

Action I want you guys to notice a lot of these screens a lot of these actions are coming off of made buckets um this is the pace they’ve been playing with since the All-Star break it doesn’t uh you know it doesn’t really allow the the the defense of the opponents to get set

Right they can’t get set and a lot of times if they try to execute a game plan like trapping it Causes Chaos that’s why it’s always good to play with Pace um which is what people confuse with transition transition is good you get that off of defensive stops but pace is

What you want to play with especially with a young team because um it gets your guys into advantageous positions now a lot of people blame coacha for how slow we were and them being methodical my theory is that he wanted to teach him the right know their plays and then from there on

You can learn to go faster you don’t want to do the wrong thing really fast so once again they’re going to trap him a terrible trap and just leave uh jack landale on a island just floating out there by himself um Jaylen could have probably attacked Champ’s outside um uh

Arm right there and just got to the basket if he wanted but look at this pass putting a little flare on it the spin I love that I love when I see players do a little razzled Dazzle uh just not in the clutch moments like Shang Guna and Harden used uh usually do

Um but great pass right there for an assist here’s a transition play they get out and run this is really really good stuff right here able to share the rock with a man Thompson who’s a demon got to do a different video for a man fairly soon one of these breakdowns once again

Talk about Tempo and Pace they’re getting the screen damn near at half court you know why you do this because you give your guy more Runway to be able to attack that trap right when they’re trapping you if you let them trap you at the three-point line it really makes the

Defense is job easier if you can get Jaylen green downhill um at half court and we’ve seen this with James Harden a lot um you can get him attacking um that big that’s unathletic and shouldn’t be on the court trying to guard him a lot of times you’re going to get him fake

Outside cross back inside and attack that inside foot and try to get middle on him uh let’s see if he does the guy goes way inside so he goes outside you get uh uh Jeff there getting another screen for him and now he gets to isolation with Jordan P who I wouldn’t

Trust to um my bike if I parked it Unchained at Walmart so um non-contested three hand down man down as they say once again Tempo get into your almost a drag screen off of a made bucket with a landale right there Jaylen green this is

Not a big in a drop but it’s hands down mans down get into your bag once you’re feeling like this to turn around my God my God and this was the icing on the cake to get us um the 42 point just feeling it downhill and one and

Won what a stretch of games by Jaylen green this 42 points capping off a a historic stretch for him I think this is probably the best basketball he’s played in his life I’m going to say life because it’s not just scoring um it’s on the defensive end as well um the

Rebounding is is really really good I mean a damn near Elite for a guard right now um you think about the last time he’s been this efficient multiple games in a row you’re going back to his rookie year when he was having that uh five game streak of scoring 30 or more points

Uh challenging an island Iverson record right and these are the glimpses that you see um when you think about you know why he he was drafted and regarded so highly as a prospect uh coming out of the G League ignite and also out of high school um and some of the prep schools

That he went to um but like you know like I said in the breakdown a lot of the things that he’s doing are things that have been there um he’s just making the right plays right now and for the offensive wise um that’s making the

Right reads attacking a big in a drop if you have a slow Defender attack them knowing your mismatches knowing when to give the ball up I think he did a great job doing that staying patient when they were trapping him and knowing when to

Pick his spots um and and if you can do that the shots may or may not fall and one thing I’m G to establish with Jaylen this is on brand for me since day one I don’t care about his his efficiency I don’t care about his efficiency for me

When I watch Jaylen green what I want to see is aggression are you attacking the rim are you playing defense are you focused are you locked in are you rebounding because the scoring is is just going to be there y’all know My Philosophy when you score in a vacuum

Without doing any of those other things it’s one of the most meaningless U things that you could do from a player that’s going to be like a starter level right those are the six men but when you’re scoring and you’re defending and you’re rebounding that changes the game right

That’s that’s a game Game Changer right that’s a game changer my thing about um about two guards especially right two guard is one of the hardest position for guys to become Superstars out of the way a two guard can be a superstar you look at the archetypes of the past the Kobe

Jordans uh DWS I count as a superstar you have your modern types the Devon Bookers and whatnot of the world is one of two ways one either you’re going to be an efficient scorer that’s a playmaker or two you’re going to be an efficient scorer that is a two-way

Player that can guard and clamp they don’t build a lot of two-way two guards anymore uh so what I’m seeing from Jaylen right now is something that’s very very unique I’m going to go back to one of the things I said uh when he first came into the Rockets which is

That um the thing that makes him theoretically now I’m not saying because y’all don’t dunk me when he has a bad game um that’s why I don’t use his efficiency as a marker um I’m going to just use stuff I see like from him doing aggression Etc I’m not saying that he

Has to shoot this well this is not that’s why I never equate his shooting with good games right he doesn’t have to shoot this well to have a good game um but when he can shoot like this and if he can do this over a consistent period

The the the scary part about what he can be this is all theoretical what he can be is that you have the ability to shoot off of screens and the athleticism to drive down downhill that’s a combination of two skill sets that usually not mixed

Up in the same player um so the upside there is is really really crazy um what I like about the jayen green that I’m seeing right now obviously the scoring the amazing plays is all all great what I like about it is the intensity and the

Focus that he’s showing um and that that moves me if you’re going to move me that’s what’s going to do it because that mental aspect of basketball to me is more important than the physicals um as you know we’ve talked about all year a lot of this stuff is in his head and

He just needs to find out what it is that motivates him and he said it after the game his daughter bro or his kid I don’t know if it’s having a girl I’m just assuming it’s a girl cuz I’m a girl dad I got a son but my my daughter is

Like everything to me so as a man I understand when he said postgame uh what he said to Vanessa since Allstar break you have been explosive what is motivating you um my family my family um my baby so yeah you’re the best Jaylen thank you thank you I understand that

Because you know when you’re growing up and I said this about Kevin Porter Jr um as you mature as a man there’s certain things that happen in your life that help your brain kind of develop as well right a 21 year old 22 year old 23 you still think you know you’re Invincible

You can do all these things um usually dudes don’t really get smart so ladies if you’re listening you’re if you got a a d a boyfriend or a husband that’s below 25 his brain is still developing uh you don’t get smart till a 25 then you realize like oh man life is really

Serious uh so for him having a kid has accelerated that process for him uh this version of any of the players we have right now is not who they’re going to be when they’re 24 25 26 years old um that’s why you want to give them a lot

Of Runway to be able to to develop uh my recipe for a success for Jaylen is still the same I’m not going to change lock yourself up in a gym this summer right here that he has coming up this summer he has coming up is going to be the most

Important summer of his career because that this summer is going to decide whether he’s going to be a star player or he’s going to be a a starter or a role player or is he going to be in Houston is going to be playing somewhere else all of that like maybe the Houston

Rockets don’t trade him or anything like that obviously you guys know my stance on that um to me you got to give him another year uh but like this summer is really going to dictate it because this version of the guy we’re seeing right here and I’m not even going to give him

This like he has to do this drop 42 just the guy that can hit his shots the guy that can play defense the guy that’s rebounding you copy and paste that player to um October 20 whatever the first game of the season was this team

That we have right now is the six seed in the west my motto I’ve said this all year we are a jayen green leap away is the leap here I don’t know I hope so I hope so but there are some things that I’m seeing that to me he can’t go back

To right the rebounding is there it’s been consistent damn near a month now the defense has been consistent damn near 15 15 games now so he can do it and he can do it for stretches to me the last thing that’s going to drop for him is well two things number one the

Shooting efficiency and to me that’s dictated by his shot selection and when he makes the right plays like he’s been doing and it seems like something has clicked in his mind about making those right plays the world is his right and then when you compound that with Alin

Shenon amen Thompson Jabari Smith Atari E when he comes back cam Whitmore the team gets real interesting real interesting about attacking teams and what you want to do the way we’re playing right now is is not complete this is a um you know obviously the

Competition is what it is is but this is not something you can sustain for 82 games um they’re going to have to find a way to take the greatness of multiple players and mend them together that’s on email DOA to do and that’s how you build

Dynasties right I said the dword when on the last pod with roou saying that I think we’re cooking a dynasty the reason I’m saying that is I’m seeing things bro I’m seeing uh you got a big now you got a guard that’s waking up basketball is

Is a game that’s his oldest time the the combination of the big man and the and the perimeter player is as old as time you can’t do it alone if you’re a perimeter player you need a big to dance with you if you’re a big man you need a

Guy on the on the wings or the perimeter to dance with you can these kids dance with each other that’s what we got to see that’s what we got to see that’s what email DOA got a cook up I think they were cooking up and then shenon got

Hurt uh Jack landelle is a poor man’s version of what we could be doing because I want you guys to think about one thing as you’re watching these highlights from Jaylen green how can you trap jayen and half court with Shang gun in the short rle leaving either because

You’re probably trapping with a with a small no no you’re going to be trapping actually you’re going to be trapping with your big man so you’re going to leave shenon attacking downhill which is one of the most devastating things in the NBA attacking your defense downhill

On a on a weak side helper which is likely a small forward you know what I call that Hakuna Matata those are the type of things you want to put teams on that is what I call a bind when you can put teams in a bind what did they do do

I trap Jaylen do I let him cook my guy 101 do I let him pull up for three no I’m going to trap him I can’t let him pull up for three guess what now you’re doing you got a big man that’s Elite passer and Elite downhill

Driver those are called problems if they want to try to overplay that I got Shooters in the corner I got a man cutting off the corner which he look great doing today I got Jabari waiting to to pull up on you if we get a movement shooter that adds more more

Pressure you can start seeing how you can mix a match the different types of um lineups that the Rockets could use and and be able to like like play with teams and just destroy them from multiple angles um it it is a beautiful thing to watch develop um shout out to

Coach Oka I mean he is to me right now I I would give him clearly the coach of the year I can’t because of what Orlando is doing because they’re they’re really cooking it up right now OKC deserves a shout out for that uh there dnot over

There as well but I think Oka has done such a marvelous job I’ve doubted him I still doubt his offense a little bit I’m a little worried about the offense but at the end of the day man to me if you have said that the Rockets would come

Into this season um be a top 10 defense finish out with 40 wins because I think we’re going to get to 40 um then I would have said that was a successful season so I think they’re going to get to 40 wins I’m pretty sure we’re going to

Finish out as the top 10 defense and I’m going to say that this season is trending towards successful now we got some games coming up Chicago uh I don’t know somebody told me they’ve been good I haven’t watched Chicago in like months I’m not going to lie so really haven’t

Watched film on them um we got a Utah a couple games then it gets serious in April I think April is going to be the stress that decides whether we make the play in or not uh we have that Warriors game on April 4th that’s going to be a

Playoff game outright that’s a playoff game that’s a playoff game like I can’t wait bro that’s going to be a popcorn get your popcorn get your soda that’s going to be a movie and how poetic would it be if we were the ones to knock off the Warriors from their playoff push and

Blow up that dynasty after all the pain they’ve caused us as Rockets fans but you know exciting times for the Houston Rockets I cannot wait to see how the season ends I cannot wait for next season because I feel like I personally feel like some of the stuff jaylen’s

Doing even if he shot bad if he just took better shots with the defense the rebounding and stuff like that it’s it’s going to be a positive because you know how I know after the All-Star break he’s been a positive in fact he’s been the highest positive on the team even when

His shot wasn’t falling at the start of the post break so that to me changes everything uh for their starting five um you still have tar een coming back I mean there’s so many exciting developments uh I want to get all these guys healthy so we can make a real push

But while we’re locked in right now I do want us to make the play in because I’d love to see our guys get a chance in the play in because I think it would do wonders for their development so you guys let me know man what do you think

About Jaylen do you think the leap has arrived are you still skeptical um do you think that he can sustain this for next season let me know in the chat let me know in the comments if you’re new to the channel hit the Subscribe button if

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