« Reply #30 on: November 02, 2012, 01:15:18 PM »
The downside with Green on this team is he may have a hard time getting a lot of shots - not many to go around with Terry and Barbosa also coming off the bench and guys like Lee, Sully and Bass absorbing some shots.
There have allusions to this already (Rondo saying they need him to be the stopper, Green calling attention to his defensive aggression), but he's going to have to make his impact on D and the boards.
It's going to be hard for him to average the kind of offensive stats people want to see for $9 mil per.
If he just loses that deer in headlights look in any pressure situation it would be a start. The problem is that Green's main talent is scoring. He's just not an above average defender, rebounder, or passer.
That's what I think the team is hoping to get out of him this year though. They want him to use his size and athleticism to make a difference in the other areas of the game.
That's where most of his untapped potential is: defense. He's got the size and length to be an above average defender at the 3 and a plus rebounder too, but he hasn't put them together to make much of an impact yet.
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