[/quote]Roy Tarpley wrote:jayu70 wrote:Roy Tarpley wrote:
Sorry for not being clear.
I think the Hawks should be focused on identifying and nurturing elite talent because it’s elite talent that contend for championships (not just good or great, but superstar elite). If you don’t make the correct assessments of talent, you consign yourself to treadmill team status, always making the playoffs but never good enough to get beyond the 2nd round. This was a problem for the Horford/Millsap/Teague teams. Players get called “superstars” whether it’s for marketing reasons, or due to physical gifts, or volume stats, or draft position. John Wall, Kemba Walker, Demarr DeRozan, KA Towns, Blake Griffin, D’Angelo Russell, etc.
I think one of the best ways to assess for elite talent is through efficiency numbers, specifically shooting percentages (FG, 3PT, FT), as well as other counting stats.
Some players have poor efficiency stats but good counting stats, like Wall or Westbrook. They amaze you highlight dunks and triple doubles, but they make baskets inefficiently.
But the championship players have good counting stats AND efficiency stats, like Curry, Durant, Lebron, etc.
Trae is already at risk of being more like Wall than Curry. If this happens, and the Hawks don’t act on it, they’re at risk of being like the Wizards. Sometimes, management realizes these things but don't act on it due to immediate pressures to win or fill seats.
6 games
You do understand that the Hawks haven't been in the lottery for the past 10 years right. Schlenk so far has done a good job in his first draft. How do you nurture elite talent without them playing the games.
6 games
You can only make those assessments based on a large enough sample set of games played over time. 6 games into his professional career is not a large enough sample to determine what his efficiency will or won't be. Add to that, better talent around him where there isn't a need for him to take ill advised shots since nobody else can or is willing.
The games have to be played. All I'm expecting is improvement over the course of the season as he grows into his role. His decision making in setting up plays for his teammates is already on point. He needs to balance that with learning what's a decent shot, time and circumstance of when to let it fly etc. - all this comes with experience.
While doing all this, we expect him to delight us with his potential shooting outbursts and passing.
6 GAMES!!!
Yeah, point taken about it just being 6 games. But based on my look at Trae's college stats, see below, Trae already had a red flag on him coming into the season.
Trae Young XX/XX/XX --- XX/XX/XX --- 42/36
6 games!!!
If you'll already made up your mind about what he'll become then there is no point in furthering this discussion today.
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