Jalen Green, novato de los Houston Rockets came to all star dunk contest as one of the great claims of the event for its spectacular nature and its ability to jump. However, the young player of the texan team did not meet expectations and go down in history after signing one of the worst performances of all time.
A performance from which he has had a hard time recovering, but the Rockets rookie seems to have regained wings and flight power as demonstrated against Jakob Poeltl, the Austrian of 2.13 who in his day are for the Students and that has become the subject of posters this season. First it was Ja Morant and now Jalen Green, who signed one of the dunks of the night against the Spurs.
It doesn’t taste the same, but it helps to remove the bad taste in your mouth after his dunk contest in the last All Star in Cleveland, where he went down in history with the worst dunk in memory. Green caught the pass to the board and passed the ball between his legs before trying to crush the basket. Fail. A sequence that was repeated up to eight more times and that it took him to spend more than five minutes on the court trying to complete a first mate that finally came in a much simpler way than the one he had rehearsed and ended up causing boos from the public.
“I need a new opportunity because this year I’ve screwed up,” said Green after his participation in this edition of the dunk contest. “I need to try again next year. We’ll see how. I failed. It’s very simple. I have the height, I have the power, but this time he didn’t want to go in.”
