Trae Young

DrCoach · Post #721 » by **DrCoach** » Mon Feb 5, 2018 8:09 pm

Mulhollanddrive wrote:Who's a player from more than 10 years ago as a comparison?

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

Post #722 » by **Ruzious** » Mon Feb 5, 2018 8:31 pm

DrCoach wrote:
Mulhollanddrive wrote:Who's a player from more than 10 years ago as a comparison?

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

He was somewhat comparable to Chris Jackson.

clyde21 · Post #723 » by **clyde21** » Mon Feb 5, 2018 8:42 pm

Ruzious wrote:
DrCoach wrote:
Mulhollanddrive wrote:Who's a player from more than 10 years ago as a comparison?

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

He was somewhat comparable to Chris Jackson.

Jackson was nothing like Abdul-Rauf. Let's not get crazy here.

DrCoach · Post #724 » by **DrCoach** » Mon Feb 5, 2018 8:42 pm

Ruzious wrote:
DrCoach wrote:
Mulhollanddrive wrote:Who's a player from more than 10 years ago as a comparison?

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

He was somewhat comparable to Chris Jackson.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #725 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 2:06 am

I had both their basketball cards lol.

Trae Young v Jevon Carter is on.

Post #726 » by **VCfor3** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 3:34 am

That defense is stout. It'll be interesting to see if Young gets frustrated and starts taking ill-advised hero shots.

doordoor123 · Post #727 » by **doordoor123** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 3:50 am

He’s having a good game. He learns so much every time he plays, it’s kind of crazy, but you can see how he got so good at such a young age. Truly a prodigy.

Bucks2585 · Post #728 » by **Bucks2585** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 4:02 am

I agree. Don't even care if he has no assists yet. Still playing a great offensive game without the ball hogging you'd expect. I mean, he's dominating the ball, but other players are getting opportunities to do something, They just aren't doing anything with it.

Only concern is the defense, but with him in college it's to be expected with the ridiculous offense load he carries. In the NBA though, I wonder how long it will take him to learn to defend at a decent level. I mean, he's flat out never been asked to play defense. I'm sure he hasn't been asked to play defense most of his life since he can out score anyone. I have no reason to expect he can't defend. But you have to wonder since he's basically never been asked to play defense type thing, how do you get him to play some defense? It probably takes the right coach, like Kyrie in Boston now type thing, or Mark Jackson getting Curry to play defense.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #729 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 4:14 am

Very impressed in a game where there was alot of physical pressure and team scheming against him.

Just needs to work on some of his handling / decision making in traffic to cut down on turnovers.

I think he may even be more suited to NBA than his current college team where he can play 1 on 1 with a spread floor.

UcanUwill · Post #730 » by **UcanUwill** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 7:55 am

so, what was his final statline?

lobosloboslobos · Post #731 » by **lobosloboslobos** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 3:35 pm

I like that he went for the quality pass to the guy under the basket with the game on the line rather than trying to shoot when he was double teamed. i mean, the guy blew it and in the end their best chance was probably Trae Young against two defenders, but still it was the unselfish and smart play.

AJ3 · Post #732 » by **AJ3** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 5:52 pm

lobosloboslobos wrote:I like that he went for the quality pass to the guy under the basket with the game on the line rather than trying to shoot when he was double teamed. i mean, the guy blew it and in the end their best chance was probably Trae Young against two defenders, but still it was the unselfish and smart play.

The best play is to pass if you are double teamed, it's that simple.

lobosloboslobos · Post #733 » by **lobosloboslobos** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 5:58 pm

AJ3 wrote:
lobosloboslobos wrote:I like that he went for the quality pass to the guy under the basket with the game on the line rather than trying to shoot when he was double teamed. i mean, the guy blew it and in the end their best chance was probably Trae Young against two defenders, but still it was the unselfish and smart play.

The best play is to pass if you are double teamed, it's that simple.

Of course, but a lot of guys who can score like that would want to be the hero by shooting not passing, no matter the coverage.

Post #734 » by **VCfor3** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 11:11 pm

Young was also sick that game and still played well.

Michael Lucky · Post #735 » by **Michael Lucky** » Tue Feb 6, 2018 11:37 pm

sick and still managed to score 32 points on 20 shots. The team around him is putrid offensively. Lost count of how many times Manek and others blew it at the rim last night from one of his feeds.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #736 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:16 am

He has cooled down on his shooting.

First 16 games - 3 games below 39% FG
Last 9 games - 6 games below 39% FG

LunchBox21 · Post #737 » by **LunchBox21** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:57 am

In a bit of a slump now. Hopefully the guy from early in the season was his norm and not the opposite end of the spectrum.

He's not 'top 3' interesting if he's not an elite shooter. Not with that shot selection and general risky style (turnovers galore), size, defense.

SportsGuy8 · Post #738 » by **SportsGuy8** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:10 am

He was obviously running hot early in the season, that almost surely wasn't his norm.

However, on the other hand, he's most likely in a slump now, so this isn't his norm either.

As with almost everything, the truth is somewhere in the middle, we're going to have to wait to see where exactly it is.

LunchBox21 · Post #739 » by **LunchBox21** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:34 am

SportsGuy8 wrote:He was obviously running hot early in the season, that almost surely wasn't his norm.

However, on the other hand, he's most likely in a slump now, so this isn't his norm either.

As with almost everything, the truth is somewhere in the middle, we're going to have to wait to see where exactly it is.

He's clearly not 16 straight missed threes bad. He's a shooter, the question is just how good of a shooter is he.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #740 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:22 am

Key flaws in the last 9 games:
29 of 94 from Three (30%)
58 Turnovers (6.4 Per Game)