Paulo Alves

It is absolutely fair to say that.

However, the season as a whole, what people are frustrated by is not just one game in a vacuum because it's an 82-game season.

No, it's about the downturn overall since December.

And what we've seen the last three games, it's simply not representative.

This is a guy in Jabari, just 22 years old, even though he's year four, he's still developing.

He's still very young.

And as recently as a week ago, he was at career highs across the board in terms of his scoring, his shooting efficiency.

Now, that's fallen off a little bit in the past week.

But the point is, there's no reason that one week should dramatically change your opinion of a player that much.

Look at the previous 12 games before these three that we're talking about.

The three-game stretch, the Mavs, the Suns, and the Blazers.

Really only two of them bad, the Mavs and the Blazers, but we'll look at the three in aggregate.

The 12 games before that, Jabari averaged over 17 points and 7 rebounds per game, shot nearly 49% overall, above 40% from 3, scored at least 15 points in 10 of the 12 games.

There's this stat going out multiple seasons when the Rockets have Jabari score 15.

at least 15 points, they have a phenomenal record in part because if you get Jabari as a scorer on top of what he brings you defensively as a connector, all the other aspects of his game, then that's when this team, especially the offensive limited one that they've been at times these past few seasons, is very difficult to beat.

That's literally the 12 games before these past three.

So these past three for Javari, disappointing, absolutely.

He'll be the first to admit it.

And it's definitely taken his season-long numbers down a little bit.

They're not dreadful.