bwgood77 wrote:lilfishi22 wrote:
It's kind of crazy that while I've never been super high on Young, it's during the worst stretch of his college career have I become more of a fan. Not getting much help from his team mates and having no one else that can score on their own just means teams are building their defense around containing him. That might be fine in college but in the NBA where most players can make lay ups, shoot and move the ball without you, he's going to have less defensive pressure and signficantly more spacing with a longer 3PT line.
I'm still concerned about his defensive abilities and I've pretty much given up on projecting him to be anymore than being mediocre on that end of the court but his offense far outweighs his weakness on defense in a similar way to great offensive PG's like Curry and Nash.
Yeah, I think he can be somewhat like those guys. I think he's a great shooter and passer - little doubt in my mind he can be very good at both in the NBA. HIs turnovers are probably his biggest drawback right now, but his teammates are bad, so I am not sure how many of those are because of that....I know some of them are because of the constant defensive pressure. Have you watched one of their games?
You know how at the end of games when a team is down and they are trying to force a turnover and two guys bottle up a guy? It's kind of like that for him the whole game.
I've watched only a handful full games that's on Youtube and they aren't good to watch just because the rest of the team is kinda trash outside of Young. I agree his turnovers are bad but that's the function of having the ball in your hand so much and trying to put people in positions to score. He's forced passes that weren't there and he's gotten trapped a few times not reading the defense fast enough but again, that's a function of being the go-to guy for anything offense. I anticipate when he has less pressure defensively by having better, more offensively capable team mates, those turnovers will drop. I also expect he'll have a horrid start to his NBA career because of his size and also the level of NBA defense but once he figures it out, he'll see that there's a lot more spacing available and he'll be able to operate at that high level we saw in the first half of his college season.
