recently placed<\/a>\u00a0Jalen Green, who the Suns acquired as part of the return for Kevin Durant from the Houston Rockets, on his NBA all-overpaid team, which consisted of two backcourt players and three frontcourt players.<\/p>\nGreen, who is entering the first season of a three-year, $105.3 million rookie extension that was given to him by Houston, joined Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier in the backcourt.<\/p>\n
Favale wrote of Green:<\/p>\n
“Jalen Green edges out other backcourt candidates like Jrue Holiday and Zach LaVine because his best skills are neither above-average nor guaranteed to scale into different situations. You know Holiday will defend his butt off even when shots aren’t falling. For all LaVine’s flaws, his offense is extremely plug-and-play.<\/p>\n
“Green’s scoring ability is not in that wheelhouse. Both his on- and off-ball offense come with lackluster efficiency. He has posted a better-than-league-average clip on unassisted shot attempts just once, according to BBall Index. His shooting percentage on spot-ups has peaked in the 60th percentile\u2014and placed in the 0th percentile this past year.<\/p>\n
“The 23-year-old has yet to pop as a passer or floor-raiser to boot. His assist-to-usage ratio has never ascended past the 27th percentile, and the Houston Rockets posted a better net rating during his on-court time only once.<\/p>\n
“Youth warrants benefit of the doubt. Green will have plenty of opportunities to rewrite the narrative on the Phoenix Suns. At the same time, transitioning to a team without as much talent around him could make things worse.”<\/p>\n
The Suns will hope their investment in Green ends up paying off, especially after they had to deal with being the highest-spending team in the NBA last season.<\/p>\n
Phoenix is no longer facing the second-apron restrictions it had to deal with the past couple years, but does not want to get stuck with another bad contract like it had to with Beal.<\/p>\n
Green will look to reverse this narrative of his contract and improve his reputation in a new situation with the Suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — It appears the Phoenix Suns could once again be dealing with one of the worst contracts…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-216076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115181247904029820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}