San Francisco – If Houston Rockets star Jalen Green looks comfortable to play against the Warriors at the Chase Center on Saturday evening in match 3 of the first round team series, that should not be a surprise with the 1-1 equality series.
The 22 -year -old, who scored 38 against the Warriors in a Victory of Match 2, has a lot of experience by playing matches full of pressure in the bay region.
As a junior at San Joaquin Memorial in Fresno, his season ended at the Oakland’s Laney College against Mgr O’Dowd in a defeat of 66-61 in 2019.
Lou Richie, longtime coach of O’Dowd, made Green, then the high -level prospect of high school in California and a feeling of social media, the only objective of his defensive match plan.
His athletics was breathtaking.
“He has definitely had a sixth equipment, and you could say that he had this fast contract, where most people can jump so high, but he could go even higher,” Richie recently told this press organization. “You were not going to exceed it.”
Green scored a 19 -point summit while being invaded by the defenders, Richie remembered that her team played “Old O’Dowd Basketball” where the defense was the first, the second and the third priority.
“We were just trying to keep the ball out of his hands as much as possible,” O’Dowd Monty Bowser told Bay Area News Group after the match.
The Dragons of Richie were not the only team in the bay region who did not want to be put on the highlights of a green adolescent.
In three years at San Joaquin Memorial, Green broke the school’s score record with 2,291 career points, passing NBA players such as Lopez Twins and the longtime NBA Wincy Poindexter.
He led SJM to consecutive section titles in 2018-2019 and qualified for the Norcal Regionals.
Along the way, Green dominated the powers of the bay region such as the room, Moreau Catholic and Dublin despite simply scraping the surface of its prodigious talents.
“With some children, you can watch them and go:” This guy will improve “, and that was the case with him,” said Mark Tennis, a California Preps historian with Cal-Hi Sports, at Bay Area News Group. “Super fast, super fast, big scorer, Dynamic Dunker and all that, but when you were around him, you saw that he was still just a child.”
Against Dublin, Green scored 39 points and made shots so improbable that the longtime coach of Gaels, Tom Costello, was left by shaking his head during the interview.
“When the child strikes the 30 feet back with one hand in his face, you somehow give your ceiling,” said Costello. “What are you going to do?”
Green was appointed the second year student of the Cal-Hi sports of the year and missed the junior of the year to the current star of Cavs Evan Mobley.
Green spent his last year from high school to Prolific Prep Prep, based in Napa, a program that plays outside the California Interscholastic Federation which governs state secondary sports.
As a senior in 2019-2020, Green collected an average of 31.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists while leading prolific to a record of 31-3 the championship of the Grind session.
He left the program as a record record for a season after having tabled 1,008 points in his only season in North Bay.
But even after a year of the central valley, Green has not forgotten his roots, returning to his school diploma with his friends.
“It is a community in northern California that will not be rooted for the Warriors because they love Jalen Green,” said Tennis.
From there, Green jumped the university and played a season with the Gague Ignite team, now missing, who also featured the current warrior Jonathan Kuminga.
Green was then drafted No. 2 in total by the Houston Rockets, where he became an integral part of the reconstruction of the cellar team at the head No. 2 of the Western Conference.
After missing the playoffs for the first three years of his career, Green’s growth coincided with the ascent of the Rockets in the classification of the Western Conference.
Combining with the antagonist of the warriors Alperen Sengun and the native of San Leandro, Amen Thompson, the juvenile trio gave Houston a physical, athletic and grainy character.
Unlike many other highly publicized preparation superstars, Green provides an example that Richie says that more high school students could learn.
It was a state of mind that led him to be a key actor in what was a very competitive series against Golden State.
“When you have 14, 15, 16, everyone tells you, you are a pro, but how many children we know who don’t do it,” said Richie. “Whether because of attitude, injuries or life, you have so many reasons that it does not happen.”
“When you find this rare of a talent that can listen and absorb something that is taught, for us as trainers, this is how we want all our players to happen,” said Richie. “It is extraordinarily athletic and talented, and it’s nice to see the children grow up and make.”
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