ThunderHorn :Did Jeff Green take your mother out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again?

I’ll take that snarky remark as a sign of acquiescence. :)

The list of players in the last 20 years to play 3000+ minutes with a PER at or lower than Jeff Green’s this season. Mostly guys that were either over the hill or should not have been playing 3000 minutes in the first place (because they were chuckers, one dimensional, etc.).

Normally, a player like Green doesn’t play the minutes to accumulate totals such as ’15 and 7′. This has been rehased dozens of times, but Green is near the bottom among starting PF’s in rebound rate, scoring efficiency, and his defensive +/- is one of the worst in the last several years.

Anyone who expected Jeff Green to get to 19/9 after last year was just being foolish. There was nothing about him that suggested he was that kind of player. If he sticks around he should be coming off the bench, I agree.

He started off the year shooting poorly and it took him a long time to get out of that funk. Feb-Mar he was shooting much better(over 40% from 3) but he lost it again in April/May. Clearly affected the rest of his game because teams would lay off him daring him to shoot and not much difference between a 3 and a long 2 when you are struggling to shoot.

I think we all expected Green to take another step forward after a very good 2nd season. He averaged just under 17 and 7 in 08-09 and I think we all expected to see him get to 18-19 ppg and 8-9+ rpg but for whatever reason it didn’t happen.

I don’t necessarily think its all on the coaches scheme. Whatever way they use him he’s gotta make shots otherwise defenses will just lay off, I do think playing him a little more in the high post(like a lot of these stretch 4s are used) might help make him more effective as far as passing/creating.