It's quite remarkable how often the ball ends up in Jaylen's hands when he's near the basket. This comes about through a number of different avenues; offensive rebounding, passes, posting up, dribbling, etc.
Unfortunately, there's generally a crowd of 6'10"+ players either surrounding him or nearby. This is a tough situation to be in. Given their proximity, he's not tall enough to go through the avalanche of long arms. Even if he fakes once or twice they have the height advantage and can wait on him.
To his credit he still scores a fair number of baskets close to the rim. It's a struggle though. My feeling is he's not being creative enough. What I think he might consider, is that instead of mechanically attacking the rim each time, he should be throwing his adversaries off balance. (Tommy reflected on this when he went for a fake or two thrown by either Lowry or DeRozan and ended up committing a foul.)
I'm not a basketball wizard by any means. But, occasionally he should act like a 'Nervous Ned' under the hoop, e.g., faking passes out, throwing his body one way and passing another, fake - then quickly kiss the ball off the backboard forcing the opponent into a goal tending charge.
I purposely used the 'Nervous Ned' analogy because if it looks like he doesn't know what he's going to do, then his opponent won't know how to react. In other words if he's looking down to make a bounce pass and then instead kicks it out. The defense is thrown off balance.
FWIW: Doug Flutie had a remarkable way of confusing defenses because of his unpredictability.
I remember reading an article about how some defensive lineman did not like playing against him because they never knew what he was going to do...yes, I know it's a different sport.)
Basically, what I'm saying he needs to be more creative under the hoop. He should still go to the hoop, but at the same time he shouldn't be totally predicable.
Anyone else have an opinion as to what he should do in these situations?