Josh Green goes into the starting line-up for the Mavericks with DFS and Dinwiddie traded out, and immediately produces. 29 points and six rebounds. +39. 10/17 FG, 3/6 3P and 6/6 FT.

Very impressive game.

The Kyrie trade puts him into a great position.

It's exciting he's got this, his prior form has indicated he's capable of this.

Up until now, with Luka taking 45FGA, Josh was going to be curtailed, albeit having a role in a decent system. Thus when Luka's not on the court and the rock has to be shared, he looks good.

Now if the hypothesis here is he's going to be part of a 3 guard rotation with Luka, Kyrie and himself, and the system being guard heavy, yeah it looks OK.

But it's still a system with Kyrie in it, and Luka wanting 45FGA. There's plenty in there to derail a career.

Where did all those green haters go?, I remember quite a few people last year saying he was no hope to make the boomers team for the WC or paris.

Who said that?

He was in Tokyo Olympics, why wouldn't he be part of the next WC?

Who would be replacing him?

People had Sobey, daniels, travers, Vasiljevic, proctor etc over him.

Who lol

I think a huge part of the front offices decision to trade DFS was their confidence in Josh Green moving into the starting role. Numbers show he plays well off the ball in the 3 spot doing all the little things.

Cmon KET, you didn't have green in your 12 either. You had him as 13th man behind Vasiljevic.



From KET...


We are really persisting with hope of Simmons aren't we.

Bit of a lack of shooting in the future...

PG Giddey/Exum
SG Mills/Daniels/Vasiljevic
SF Ingles/Thybulle
PF Simmons/Kay/Cooks
C Landale/Reath

I’d have Green as 13th man.
DJ is in for shooting.

Is Exum really a PG?

We all make mistakes, I had Baynes originally In my squad.

Boomers looking stacked with Greens performance but Ingles has also been cooking, I'd like to see Patty traded, he’s not getting burn...

I think Green might start for Boomers, Thybulle to play a lot of 4, Ingles mr fix it off the bench and Simmons to not show up!

Green could legit start as the 3 man atm with ingles off the bench.

Simmons wasn't bad at Center imo

4-5 men should be
Kay
Cooks
Simmons
Reath
Landale

Baynes, Motum-no imo
Pinder and maker the only other 2 options atm

"Cmon KET, you didn't have green in your 12 either. You had him as 13th man behind Vasiljevic."

I'm really confused though, how does that equate to this:

“Where did all those green haters go?, I remember quite a few people last year saying he was no hope to make the boomers team for the WC or paris.”

Those two things don’t align, so it’s bizarre to equate it that way.

Also, Simmons won’t nominate to be in the WC in all likelihood, I included Simmons based on a Boomers side where everyone nominates. So the idea of using that to say Green doesn’t have a hope of making WC is weird.

And it’s not a “DJ is better than x” scenario - if you have Simmons and Giddey in the same team, you need an off-the-bench, from-the-cold Goulding style shooter because Mills and Ingles isn’t really enough shooting. Especially since it’s a low minute spot anyway.

In which case you favour DJ and a big for your 11th/12th spots over a third SF (Green) in that hypothetical.

If you looked at my posts that don’t include Simmons in the hypothetical, you see Daniels isn’t in the team and Green is, but then that would go against your apparent selective thinking argument.

Nice try, of the many variations I’ve done, good to see you haven’t bothered to read my other posts which had Green in them and blatantly excludes Simmons!

The green haters were on another thread where they said he would not be an nba player for much longer prior to the season.

I changed my 12 too mate if you look at the thread.
No scenario where you require Vasiljevic, green shooting the 3 ball at 41.9% as an off guard or sf...

If goorj says Simmons wants in, then I'll take the coaches word over speculation on a forum.

You shouldn't have linked me into it then, that was your mistake.

You not wanting to exclude Simmons from a hypothetical is irrelevant so I don’t know why you bothered to say that. My response is cool story - I feel Simmons won’t be there in the WC but if he is that’s great.

Happy to rub it in to you if he doesn’t play on behalf of all speculators out there though.

Ofcourse you want to consider scoring options for the boomers, it’s an obvious future issue and a probable WC focus point.

Green and Giddey NBA shooting percentages wouldn’t necessarily translate to international basketball that well with less space, compared to how effective Mills/Ingles are at both.

I love the Chip coaching decision for Giddey, but I’m not going off half-cocked.

It is straight up the dumbest comment on this thread to say the shooting issue is resolved on the basis of Green.

The scorer issue is still an issue and that Goulding-type role has to be considered. It certainly was important the last two, three, four major events!

That’s not to be critical of them, but it’d be the wrong expectation for both and the wrong way to create a team balance to expect both to provide a sharp shooting punch. You place them on the team based on what they’d provide. Giddey is a lock in there, but Green has a lot of similar players that would make him among a bunch - an irony considering they badly needed an athletic wing in the past.

But yes, Green has always been in my team that I *actually* slated for the WC since Tokyo Olympics.

Has Simmons done anything in the last season and half to warrant selection. Surely you have to have done something substantial to get in. He's out again. It’s not setting a good example for present and future players.
I’m certain the opals have moved on from Cambage.

The 12th spot in Tokyo was between Green and Giddey.

The role was "get no minutes, but breathe the culture".

Green hasn't lost his spot to both Daniels and Vasiljevic.

The obvious change will be Giddey in for Dellavedova, and then whether Delly goes back to the bench pushing Sobey out, or both Delly and Sobey out. If the latter, that may be Daniels gig.

If they go big and 5 front court players, then it MAY be Simmons instead of Daniels.

Vasiljevic will only get a gig if he is replacing Goulding.

Someone is replacing Baynes, probably Cook.

Josh looking very impressive again, against Clippers this time

Great month for Josh Green - 18.3 PPG so far. 60% FG, 43% 3P. Looking to be a legit piece for the Mavs.

According to this board the WC boomers lineup will be as follows -

Bryce Cotton/Bryce Cotton/Bryce Cotton
Bryce Cotton/Bryce Cotton/Bryce Cotton
Bryce Cotton/Greg Hire/Tyrese Proctor
Xavier Cooks/Bryce Cotton/Bryce Cotton
Bryce Cotton/Bryce Cotton/Bryce Cotton

Injury reserve - Dyson Daniels, Josh Green, Rocco

Greg Hire.

That team is completely unrealistic. No Nathan Sobey???

Sobey is poor man's Cotton, too much duplication...

We can’t have all the same skill sets at every position unless it’s Cotton