Rockets extend win streak vs. Thunder: Jalen Green on the rise to superstardom? | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Rockets extend win streak vs. Thunder: Jalen Green on the rise to superstardom? | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Rachel Nicholls joins us now to talk about a league she knows so well the NBA good morning to you and welcome back so the Houston Rockets won again that’s 12 out of 13 last night they won a wild one in overtime at Oklahoma City which did not have Shay gilis Alexander and who’s

Chad hongren fouled out with about eight minutes left in the game which was a shocker but Jaylen green had 37 points and 10 rebounds and S assists and since alpie shenon went down Jaylen green has averaged 32 points a game that’s in eight games so keesan I why don’t you

Start us off here are we seeing the emergence of a star or even a superstar in Houston I mean Superstar is a bit of a stretch but you certainly seeing a young player who’s kind of coming into his own and they eay obviously understands with shanon out that he’s

The next man up the next guy that can give them what they looking for and you said the 32 well in the last 14 games is 29 28.9 them are rounded up I mean that’s that is star status now could he have done that all season long if shung

Wasn’t in I don’t know I don’t know but he certainly is coming into his own I mean this is a a a young team with a couple veteran players on it that they brought in to to Van Fleet Brooks to kind of teach them Jeff Green Jeff Green

To kind of teach them how to play basketball certain way and it’s working I mean they got gold to State looking over their shoulder right now they better be yep I mean look could he have done this with changon in no no he could not have because of the spacing that is

Created on the floor with changon out and that is really the key for this team it’s awesome what’s happening now it’s great for these guys confidence Jaylen green has been a streaky inconsistent player just to see him have those reps have those great nights out night after

Night that’s going to be phenomenal if they can catch the Warriors and get in that playing game that will be ahead of schedule for them and give this young team going into next season something to really stand on all that being said they have got to figure out a way to have

This greatness that they’re seeing right now exist alongside the greatness that they saw from shenon earlier this season because a lot of it’s just physical room right Jaylen green has more room he does to get around the basket athletic things it was only a couple of weeks back I sat

Watching shenon destroy wimy he destroyed him he went for 45 on wimy and a bunch of them were right in wimy face cuz he’s saying I’m just going at the shot blocker I’m going right up into his chest and through him and now you’re suggesting they’re they’re a little

Better with Jaylen green being able to be Jaylen green okay so where does that leave them when their Star Center comes back because he’s got a bad ankle but I assume he’s going to come back just make the adjustment and I think I think e

Smart enough as a coach to be able to make the adjustments like Rachel said maybe jayen green doesn’t average 29 Points maybe he starts to may he comes back it’s 23 you know because shon’s back in the lineup but this isn’t really about it’s not about this year it’s

About next year this is just a building block for them to be able to now look and say okay we can do it we know we could do it and then there’s a piece or two out there that they can go get next year to add to what they’ve already done

This ain’t cuz they not going nowhere this the 10th spot they not going nowhere not this year I have a lot of faith in eem and what he can do here xwi at these guys go forward and the culture change too we we just can’t forget what

A big deal this is remember I mean it was not that long ago it was a year and a half a couple years ago where well I mean even beyond that right after he left and the feeling of like man this team is hopeless and it’s Purgatory if

You get set down there and they don’t know what they’re doing and they don’t know where they’re going and all of a sudden especially with emay coming in because he is such a tone Setter for the organization they have become a young Scrappy team Fred Van v chose to go

There they have a team that feels like they want to be and play in the locker room for each other so the idea that this group now goes into next season as you said whether it’s with a play in behind them or not that they go in

Thinking we are a team where people want to be and you are going to be scared when we come out in the floor that was a laughable sentence just two seasons ago so even approaching that right now is huge all right so back to Jaylen green you guys obviously weren’t on the show

Back when but before his draft we went back and forth and back and forth for a month about Jaylen green or Cade Cunningham and I was all about jayen green because he’s so much more offensively explosive than Cade can be kade’s a more allaround better maybe basketball player although last night

When Oklahoma City started to double jayen Green in the second half and especially in overtime he had to give up the ball he can pass the basketball he has some feel for the game that I didn’t know he had when I watched g-league ignite back in the day so the point is

He is a wildly explosive score and he just off I I start to compare him because it’s the only thing I have it’s to Ant-Man so we have Anthony Edwards and Jaylen green he he’s a little more offensively skilled to me at this point than Anthony is just just naturally

Offensive skilled but Anthony is so much bigger and stronger because Jayla green plays like he’s 67 cuz you don’t talk about jump out of the gym obviously so can Anthony but they only list Jaylen green at 6’4 I thought he was 6 I looked

It up and and he’s 6’4 he he weighs like 185 he still he does not have his man body quite yet Anthony Edwards weighs 225 so that’s like plus 40 pounds so he’s playing with a lot more Force than Jaylen is able to but listen Jaylen can

Just flat out Skywalk and over these eight games without shenon he’s making 48% of his threes is that going to hold is that going to be a constant going forward well he’s highly capable because he’s got natural easy stroke with it so I I think we’re looking at a star for

Sure here he you know when when you get into a rhythm and you shooting threes he’s able to do that now that wasn’t necessarily Cas it not the case it wasn’t the case he would hesitate the offense was going through shenon yeah but if he needs to revert back to that

At least he knows and they know he’s capable of shooting deep if he needs to so I’m not I wouldn’t worry about it it reverting back to what they did with shenon because again I think eay knows hey I got something special here well look here’s what I would say about

Jaylen green what he’s shown us so far is his trajectory is not just like this right it’s going to be like this and what you hope is that it eventually Trends up I would not expect I hope that he’s this hot through the rest of the season because it’s a great story and

It’s great for his conf and he’s a fun player to watch if it doesn’t if toward the end of the season it starts to Peter off I’m not going to be shocked if next season he’s sort of a little bit more like this again I’m not going to be

Shocked either I don’t think this is oh my gosh Jaylen green has made this amazing step forward he’ll never go back I think he is showing himself and the rest of us what he’s capable of and I would expect more of that in the future just maybe not every game from here on

Out for the rest of time so to me the real star of this show is the coach and you know the coach and I have careful watched this coach since he sat at the right hand of God the Father Almighty for all those years in San Antonio and

Look at him now he is such a commanding officer he looks the part he acts the part and he has changed everything about the way they play basketball he he is he’s a guy I would love to play for and are you with me Rachel feedback on what

You’ve seen from eay in charge 100% look we saw it in Boston right I mean we saw what he did in Boston and just what he accomplished in terms of the guys on the court but the way the guys acted toward him in the locker room off the court in

The hallway you could tell the respect they had for him it was obviously controversial when he left to Em’s credit he definitely has talked about hey learning from his experiences just like everybody else and that he is becoming a pillar in that organization in Houston in the way that they hoped

That he would be and again the players have so much respect for him and you know Skip that in this league with this level of talent those guys have to believe and he’s given them a place to go a belief and it is a great example of

With a team that is not all young right but some young a degree young to have a disciplined first coach which he is a defensively oriented coach which he can be and somebody who says great here’s some clarity here is what you are supposed to do here is where you are

Supposed to be and here’s the guy who’s going to be there for you in return that is one of his strengths and we have seen that on the court payout it it all blows down to the respect level I was going to say that Rachel they respect him and the

Fact that they respect him they do for him and they do the right things he puts them in the right situ they trust him when you look at the great coaches in professional sports people trust them all of them across the board even if you went down to Miami they trust him right

You look at you look at tyou they trust him they just trust what they saying what they giv them and you looking at with eay right now right in front of us hey there’s also a little bit of good Fear Factor like you you know he’s he’s

In charge he’s going to have the final say because he’s 66 and and Carries himself it’s he’s not that far removed from being a player and they know that they they they see that and they saw the season in Boston too they they they know

What he could do now I will say Houston does have the 10th strongest uh strength of schedule going forward so it is going to be a little bit rough for them I mean there’s not that much season left um 10 games yeah 10th 10th hardest strength schedule so he got 10 games left

Yeah somewhere around there so for me they become came out they came out but I will I was going to say I I will say it’ll be interesting to see what happens if they make that plan again I think the confidence and the experience we always say particularly in a playoff

Environment you don’t know what it’s like until you’ve been in it so that will give them a little bit of at least a taste of it I would say to you I think Jaylen green has a ways to go before he hits Anthony Edward’s level they’re both

22 years old both 22 and Anthony is just such a dynamic player and has that confidence that Jaylen is still developing but there’s there’s no question that green has been a revelation here in this last tick of the Season cuz he had Lou Dort in his face

Last night he was he was doing work on him he he is something to behold they are fun to watch so fun and I think they’re dangerous man they’re if they slip into the 10 I don’t know if they can catch Golden State Golden State’s starting to play like gold like Steph’s

Starting to say no not on my watch but one game skip not three games one it’s one game I I got it and golden state has been so bad at home they’re sub 500 team at home and I think they see each other in a couple weeks each other yeah yeah I

Don’t know how danger even if the Rockets get in I don’t dangerous they’re going to be once they get there but again every step forward is a big step and I don’t know I feel like the NFL you do see teams come out of nowhere a little bit more often because Personnel

Changes so much in the NFL but the NBA it is very unusual to see a team succeed win in NBA Finals per se you know without having gotten there in the Conference Finals first or not into the Conference Finals until getting into the playoffs well Houston’s much further

Back than that they’re not anywhere near that territory but the same thing applies right is that hey until you get into a playoff environment you don’t know what it’s like so them to get into it be huge three games to get to the Super Bowl and basketball to win a

Championship a long you got to you got to have done it more all right but we keep dismissing Oklahoma City because we said well they haven’t been there and done any of that before but the one thing about Houston is van F knows what that feels like and Dylan Brooks has

Been in high stress playoff situations even though he didn’t really stand up for himself against Lebron after he called him out but last night at Oklahoma City again there’s no Shay Gil just but Dylan Brooks in overtime stepped up and made two huge threes so Dylan the villain he’s he’s found a a

Place where he’s happy he’s he looks much happier his body language is much better with eay well he by the way was undervalued because of some of the off cour because of some of the chattering that kind of thing so when he was available Houston was able to get him

For less than probably they should have for the caliber player that he is because of all the other stuff and if they can keep that stuff in line and again that’s where Oka comes in right you only talk like that if you feel like it’s going to fly in the locker room and

With your head coach and I think eem has made it clear what is and isn’t going to fly in there you think about it skip the other nine 10 teams ahead of them perennial Allstars on their roster everywhere everywhere it’s going to be hard I mean you think about everybody

From the top all the way down perennial Allstars on those teams yeah I’m just saying let’s just say for sake of argument that the Lakers wind up N9 10 so it’s a home game for the Lakers they have to host the Rockets I I would not

Well they they got times this year they beat us a couple times this year they’re not afraid I’m taking LeBron in that scenario at home in a playing game I’m taking I’m going I I got that we trying to get out play though all right Rachel’s going to stick with us here

Because we got to get her take on Draymond thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure to click that subscribe button for all the exclusive content from Undisputed

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