Houston's top pick is still finding his touch on offense but has let defense carry him as...
In the first 16 of Jabari Smith’s NBA career, he is shooting 33.3 percent from the field and 30.2 percent from deep.Rockets coach Stephen Silas used a document called the “blueprint,” created during his early tutelage of future superstars including Stephen Curry and Luka Dončić,But even though Silas has spent plenty of one-on-one time with Jabari Smith Jr.
“There's the process,” Silas said. “There's the structure of being a worker and what it takes to go from year one to year two. So it's less about what the individual's things are. It's like, no, there's goal setting, and then there's goal achievement, or lack of goal achievement, and that sort of thing.
Smith didn’t need a blueprint to know that his early growing pains are typical of struggles that most players experience at some point in their careers, especially as rookies. “Just the attention to detail and how your individual skill set is kind of catered to what the team is trying to do, and how you can build confidence through just seeing the floor,” Curry said. “We spent a lot of time doing a lot of film study on pick and roll, creating good shots, trying to make the right decision defensively, trying to be in the right spot. Even though I feel bad for Coach Silas. He didn't have much to work with me on the defensive end back then.
Smith and fellow rookies Tari Eason and TyTy Washington regularly receive counsel from other Rockets players, in particular Green, the No. 2 pick of last year’s draft who in his own rookie season overcame a rocky start and rounded into form in the second half.
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