I'm curious to hear your thoughts after his second superb performance in a row against the best SF in the world, possibly ever.
Going by that logic, if he can perform so well against the best SF and player in the NBA, why isn't he absolutely destroying every other SF?
The only way you can defend that is by saying he gets up for games against LeBron, which, while nice, is yet another sign that Green is incredibly inconsistent.
He really isn't. Since Rondo's injury his stats have been great and up-to-contract. He's being judged on his past, which is slightly unfair. Looking at how he's playing NOW, he's playing just like we want him to.
Strongly disagree.
Can I acknowledge that Green has been playing better in the past two-and-a-half months? Sure. Great job, Jeff.
It cannot be forgotten, however, that Green played pretty poorly during the first two-and-a-half months of the season. Don't try the "Well, he just had heart surgery" argument with me because if that's really the case, Green shouldn't have been playing in November and December if that's what was hindering him.
When evaluating a player, it's necessary to look at their full body of work, whether that's their seasonal performance or career performance. You can pinpoint any purple patches they have, but in the end, their performance on the whole cannot be left out.
Sure, but it's a known fact that Green always takes time to get into a season. For example, he started pretty poorly in 2009-10 (OKC days), but finished his last 44 games with 43 double-digit games (including 30 with 15+ points). I'm sure that's enoguh to prove a point of consistency.
Well, except for the fact that (a) the example you cite happened three years ago, and (b) there is a season and a half of Green's career between that period and the current period. What you're saying proves exactly nothing.
If you're responding to someone accusing you of cherry-picking, you can't just go back and cherry-pick something else and ignore the rest.
I do happen to believe, for what it's worth, that Green has proved himself to be an incredibly consistent player over the entire course of his career. But as we've discussed OVER and OVER, he has been very consistent at a pretty mediocre level.
Even this year, overall his numbers are just mildly better than his career averages, and pretty indistinguishable from his numbers in any other year. I've posted this link before but I'll post it again. Look at the per-36 averages.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/greenje02.htmlI will be as happy as anyone if Green sustains this level of performance, but it's gotta happen for at least a full half season, and more plausibly a full season, before we start talking about whether Green has truly improved.
In other threads - or maybe this one, it's like some sort of zombie that re-animates after every good game by Green and goes into hibernation when he stinks - I've pointed out two-month periods from earlier in his career when his numbers were just as good as they've been recently. He's always regressed to the mean.