Despite a tough journey into the playoffs, Dream Green clearly isn't focusing all his attention on the court, he's still focused on some things off the court.
The other day, when Bill Simmons (an American sports analyst and founder of The Ringer) discussed his views on the best rookie candidate in his blog, he deliberately compared rocket star Jaylen Green with the Pelican 35 pick Herbert Jones, claiming that he voted for Jones instead of Green (and used the word F beginning) in the rookie lineup, and said that he didn't care if Green scored high points because his Rockets team had a bad record and he liked players who could win.
Before the Nuggets' fifth game began, Dream Green criticized Bill Simmons on his social media about the matter, arguing that people like Bill Simmons should not have the right to vote because they didn't have accurate opinions of the players, and he used the word F to make personal attacks.
Bill Simmons's use of F-starting words is really not high-quality, and his voting choices are really not professional enough, let's take a look at jaylen Green and Herbert Jones who are more qualified to be selected for the rookie lineup. Jaylen Green has played in 67 games this season and averaged 17.3 points, 3.4 boards and 2.6 assists per game, while Herbert Jones played in 78 games for the Pelicans, averaging 9.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.
In terms of personal data, Jaylen Green is undoubtedly not on the same level as Jones, and the reason given by Bill Simmons is that Jones can help the team win, while Green cannot lead the team to win. This reason is actually not valid at all.
First of all, Jones did help the Pelicans get better, and he was born with the 33rd pick and averaged 29.9 minutes of playing time per game for the Pelicans, which is obviously a rare second-round pick player in the first year, but it's all won by his ability on the defensive end.
Especially in the playoffs, facing the league's number one Suns, Herbert Jones was completely out of the court, he even blocked the Suns' three-point shots three times in G4 games, and became the first player in the league to do so in the past two seasons, and Jones in the rookie season can be said to be the most defensive player on the Pelicans, obviously, his future is immeasurable. So there's nothing wrong with Bill Simmons' previous paragraph.
But to say that Green can't lead the team to win is obviously unfounded. Green is in the Rockets, which are already aiming to accumulate enough talent to return to the top by swinging, and winning is obviously not the goal of this team. Therefore, it is obviously too funny to negate Green's role on the court by the record. What's more, the Rockets have hidden a number of powerful players this season in order to improve this group of young players, and Jaylen's teammates are far inferior to Jones's teammates, how can such a team win? What's more, Green also broke through the rookie wall during the season, elevating himself to a higher level. In the last ten games, Green averaged 26.1 points per game, with a plus-minus of +0.9 on the field, and he began to play a positive role for the team, which Simmons could not see.
This time the green green incident makes people sigh, chasing dreams is really a good person who dares to speak out, when the unfair phenomenon occurs, he can stand up no matter how busy he is. At the same time, the NBA must be more rigorous in choosing which media people can have the right to vote, otherwise if there are more voters like Bill Simmons, the authority of NBA awards will be greatly reduced.