LA Clippers Reserve JaMychal Green Shines in Seeding Games

LA Clippers reserve JaMychal Green played extremely well during his team's seeding games, and that could continue into the postseason.

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00:00Almost every player for the L.A. Clippers is impressed during the team's 8 seeding games,

00:04especially on the offensive side of the floor. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George put some of their

00:08best basketball of the season, while Levitsa Zubac had a career night against Dallas Mavericks.

00:12However, the player that's done the most to improve their reputation since the season

00:16resumed isn't listed above. It's Jermichael Green. The 6'8'' stretch forward has been on

00:22a tear since L.A.'s seeding game slate began on July 30th, scoring 9.3 points per game off the

00:27bench, which doesn't sound like a lot, and connecting on almost 53% of his attempts to

00:31point range. In the absence of Montrezl Harrell and Lou Williams to a degree,

00:35Green was easily the best player coming off the bench every night, and with that patch of

00:39gravity in the lineup, there's an argument made that Green was L.A.'s third best player

00:43during the seeding games. He was consistently in the right place at the right time, whether that

00:48was under the basket to grab a rebound, or moving top of the heat for a wide-open look from deep.

00:52He was great as a screensetter as well, learning to pick and pop to perfection by finishing in

00:57space or drawing a defender with him like George or Leonard, putting them up for possession

01:01isolation. Of course, none of this is new for Green, and his current style of play,

01:05for the most part, matches what he was doing the previous season before it was suspended

01:09back in March. The one thing that's really changed right now is his intensity and his

01:13efficiency from beyond the arc. Before the seeding games began, Green said that he frequently looks

01:18back and watches his film from himself when he showed out against the Golden State Warriors in

01:22the first round of last season, when his numbers in that series were eerily similar to what he's

01:27done in the seeding games here so far. Before that all started, Green said,

01:33quote, I kind of go back on YouTube just to watch it and just see the feel I had for the game. I

01:37played hard and I want to come out strong to help the team in any way I can. Now the Clippers are

01:41back in the playoffs. Green feels he's done what he's had to accomplish so far to, in his own words,

01:47be the glue guy and bring the energy. Once LA returns to full health, look for Green to maintain

01:53his current standing in the rotation, or to even be a few spots higher. He certainly played himself

01:58into a larger role during the seeding games, and it wouldn't come as a surprise because he started

02:02not over Zubaz at some point in the playoffs. Obviously, Green isn't the defensive anchor that

02:07Zoo is, but there's some serious offensive upside there. Playing a fourth-placer in green at the 5,

02:12with Clippers a lineup full of shooters, you're talking Pat Bev, Paul George, Kawhi Leonard,

02:17Marcus Morris, and then Green at the 5, that lineup could punish some teams that rely heavily

02:22on slower, more traditional bigs. I'm not sure if that's Dallas, it could be Denver, it could be the

02:28Lakers as well, but we probably will see that lineup at some point in the postseason. So,

02:33as long as Green has his lineup and three-point range, he'll be a valuable asset to the Clippers

02:37team as they pursue their first ever NBA title.