is going to be good. At first I had a great deal of doubt, because he was so young. Now he just needs coaching. He's already learning to defend, he can shoot, and his hops are a sickness. His ballhandling will need work, but that comes with time, and with Delonte at point, we hope the ball just gets to Green He threw down a dunk tonight that immediately reminded me of McGrady. You'll have to see it to believe it. I'm excited. We have so much young talent. I'm looking forward to the next few weeks, just so I can watch Green and Allen play.
He needs playing time more than anyhting, he can be a very special player if he gets the experience. In my mind he was the best High Schooler in this years draft class even over Webster or Bynum.
That dunk was too sick. Floatin in the air lookin at the rim and the cock back and all. Though it got the fans up, seems a bit unclassy; wonder what Doc is gonna say. Green has a ton a potential, he just needs to get solid PT and be comfortable so he can be a solid impact player. Then he can build off that by become the star player many expect him to become. Kid's got mad talent.
http://rapidshare.de/files/16189817/greendunk.avi.html Gerald Green is a high school rookie that barely sees the floor. You can't blame him for not thinking about the circumstances before he went up for that dunk.
http://rapidshare.de/files/16189817/greendunk.avi.html Gerald Green is a high school rookie that barely sees the floor. You can't blame him for not thinking about the circumstances before he went up for that dunk.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting 44Thrilla:</div><div class="quote_post">http://rapidshare.de/files/16189817/greendunk.avi.html Gerald Green is a high school rookie that barely sees the floor. You can't blame him for not thinking about the circumstances before he went up for that dunk.</div> thanks for the link.... lol, I found it pretty funny how Chuck Swirsky (the play-by-play guy) pulled a Dr Jekyl Mr. Hyde when he went from loving the dunk, then after a 2 second pause he goes on an all out bashing of Green for being unclassy.....
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting 44Thrilla:</div><div class="quote_post">http://rapidshare.de/files/16189817/greendunk.avi.html Gerald Green is a high school rookie that barely sees the floor. You can't blame him for not thinking about the circumstances before he went up for that dunk.</div> I downloaded it and I hear the sound from the game but there is no picture.
You gotta be kidding. <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Fever:</div><div class="quote_post">Kid's got potential, but that last play was pure unclass.</div> That was a garbage time play at the end of a game, by a guy that hasn't played much at all. And he didn't set the play up, Tony Allen did. A nasty feed like that, what's he gonna do, lay it up? Put on the show when you can.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting NbaBaller:</div><div class="quote_post">I downloaded it and I hear the sound from the game but there is no picture.</div>Try this... http://broadband.nba.com/cc/playa.php?cont...true&siteid=rss
Tha dunk was so sick, but what remind me more of Tracy his jumper over Joey Graham. Just like Tracy, his long arms and uncanny leaping ability allow him to shoot over the top of almost anyone. I want to see Gerald and Dwayne Jones get some more playing time in these last few months of regular season ball.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">WALTHAM, Mass. -- He still may look like he's more likely to be a high school All-Stater than a "SportsCenter" highlight-grabber, but Gerald Green isn't the young man he was when Danny Ainge made him the Celtics' first-round draft pick last June. "Oh, man, I've grown so much. I feel like I was a little boy, and now I feel like a man," Green said yesterday after practice. When the Houston prep star went to Boston with the 18th pick, the feeling was that he'd turn out to be the steal of the draft -- someday. But that day initially seemed far away to Celts coach Doc Rivers. "At the beginning of the year, I thought we were a couple of years away before we even saw him on the floor," said Rivers. "(But) he works hard. He's become a great listener, he's learning how to focus. "I think his time will keep increasing throughout this year, and next year he'll be on the floor. I couldn't have told you that at the beginning of the year." At the beginning of the year, all anyone knew about the 6-foot-7 beanpole was that he could jump. High. At the McDonald's All-American game dunk contest, he pulled off a video-game move -- literally -- when he threw the ball off the 24-second clock over the backboard, pulled the ball down and slammed it home. He got the move off the "NBA Live" video game. Then, during summer-league play, he had another stunner: Getting the ball at the 3-point line, he spun off his man, curled toward the basket and leaped over a forward for a dunk. A clip of the move was all over the Internet. And on Wednesday night, he apparently touched off an international incident. On the floor for the closing seconds of Boston's win over Toronto, Tony Allen and Green were on a breakaway. Allen lobbed the ball off the backboard, and Green had to reach back fully for the one-handed jam. It was No. 1 on the "SportsCenter" top 10 plays of the day, but the Raptors' broadcast team didn't take too kindly to it, feeling that it was rubbing it in. But though he said yesterday he'd be more than happy to take part in the NBA dunk contest if given the chance, Green knows that's not what's going to get him minutes. He acknowledged yesterday that the most important thing for him to work on is his defense, and the rotations on both offense and defense. But he's learned enough thus far that he went from being on the inactive list for the first 47 games of the season to averaging about 4 1/2 minutes per game over the last 22. In Phoenix on Feb. 22, he played a career-high 23 minutes, going 5-for-8 from the field for 13 points; he also had 9 assists. "He's becoming safer to play, I think is the way to word it," Rivers said before Wednesday night's game. "He really is becoming a guard now that you can put on the floor and you don't think that he's going to hurt you, where earlier in the year you honestly felt like he was going to hurt you when you put him on the floor. "But (his development is) all Gerald; that's nothing the coaches have done. Gerald's done all that work himself. He's really grown up, and I'm so proud of him for that, and obviously I'm happy for us because we can play him now." Even when he wasn't suiting up, which wasn't easy, Green said he never regretted the decision not to go to college. He also never blamed anyone else for his lack of playing time, which didn't escape Rivers. "In my experience so far with young players, when that happens, they tend to go in a slump, not listen any more and blame. 'It's not my fault, it's the coaches,' or 'It's the other players.' Gerald never did that," said Rivers. He just said, 'What do I have to do to play?' I love that."</div> Green is growing into role with Celts The last time the Celtics drafted a player who slipped to them and now plays with a chip on his shoulder, turned out pretty well. Paul Pierce is the ideal mentor for Gerald Green and I'm sure he reminds him daily about all the teams who passed him up on draft day.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting postpoint:</div><div class="quote_post">That was a garbage time play at the end of a game, by a guy that hasn't played much at all. And he didn't set the play up, Tony Allen did. A nasty feed like that, what's he gonna do, lay it up? Put on the show when you can.</div> Yes I agree with you postpoint. Allen just threw it up for him. I think more important then that dunk was his jumper that he took to the defender. We all know he can dunk, he needs to shoot well and play defense to make it in this league. I still loved the dunk and it would be in my avatar but I guess we can't have moving clips.
