Imon wrote:Fans, understandably, lack patience when it comes to the players.
I think Trae has the potential to be an all-star player - especially in the East. IMO Trae has overtaken Ayton on the rookie ladder. Hilariously, Trae might be ruining the tank for the Hawks right now. We don't know for sure but I have a sneaking suspicion the Suns are holding Ayton out longer than they need to add insurance for their tank.
He passed him in PPG on the rookie ladder but he is still well behind Ayton overall especially having only played 4 less games.
Young is still averaging 41% from the field and 30% from 3 whilst being close to the worst defensive PG in the league.
He is 483rd out of 484 players in the league in DRPM, the only guy worse than him in the whole entire competition is Colin Sexton. Yeah DRPM has to be taken into context but that is horrific, -4.08 DRPM is one of the lowest recorded since the stat came out.
17/3/7/1 on 41/30/80 with a PER of 14.1, TS of 52.2%, OWS of 0.1, DWS of 0.4, OBPM -0.2 of and DBPM of -3.0 and VORP of -0.5 with a 27% usage.
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16/11/2/1/1 on 59/0/77 with a PER of 21.5, TS of 62%, OWS of 3.3, DWS of 1.1, OBPM of 0.8, DBPM of 0.6 and VORP of 1.3 with a 21% usage.
It’s pretty clear with Ayton killing Young in every raw and advanced stat whilst being much less of a liability defensively and doing it all with less touches and without a PG that Young is still way behind.
It could be argued he’s been better in the last 5 or so games but on the season as a whole he is nowhere near surpassing Ayton on the overall ladder.
