THE GREEN MACHINE: The Subtle Emergence of Josh Green

[F Gump]

I am done with him and I was one always in his corner. 

You can talk about schemes and other things but a person wanting to score finds ways to score.  There are too many nights where he is too passive on offense.   I am beginning to think it’s a mental thing with him like it is with Ben Simmons. However Ben was only scared to shoot. Josh doesn’t want to score at all. What he brings is not so great that we can get awy with a complete lack of intent on his part when it comes to scoring.

I was thinking the same sort of things about what I saw from Green.

It was very alarming to me to see one particular play - as the ball swung, he took a dive cut to the basket, and the ball zipped to him down the middle of the lane with no one between him and the basket. The closest defender was trailing him. It's a situation where 100 of 100 players continue for the layup or dunk.

Except, make that 99 of 100. Green opted to force a pass to the corner, to a player who was being defended. But to me, the worst part of that play was that he didn't even look at the basket - didn't even try to score - it was almost like he didn't want to score -- turning down a GREAT shot from point blank range for a hard pass to a player who isn't open. That's disturbing to me, and discouraging as to his potential as a player.