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Keyonte George’s Star Ascension

Jaanipoeg said:
This year for Keyonte kind of reminds me of Lauri's first season here. Through the 10 or so games I remember he was averaging like 20 PPG on good efficiency and I was super excited, but kept waiting for the reversion which never came that season. And instead he just kept getting better.

Same situation with Keyonte so far this season.
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Lauri also took forever to finally get good
 
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tksavis said:
Listening to Hoop Collective and the Zach Lowe podcast and their talk about the weak trade market for Trae Young, and the really low likelihood of Trae being able to get anything like max money on his next contract, I think there are implications for Keyonte’s extension with the Jazz. There’s just a limit to how much you invest in an offensive engine that plays zero defense. Maybe Key sees that and commits to work harder in defense in the future. Otherwise it seems like the Jazz will have a good argument that one way player key is maybe $30 mil type money but nothing close to a max player. Trae Young ends up being a pretty powerful cautionary tale.
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If Trae was a consistent high 30s volume 3pt shooter he'd have a lot more value, but he's too inconsistent from 3 for his lack of defense
 
tksavis said:
Listening to Hoop Collective and the Zach Lowe podcast and their talk about the weak trade market for Trae Young, and the really low likelihood of Trae being able to get anything like max money on his next contract, I think there are implications for Keyonte’s extension with the Jazz. There’s just a limit to how much you invest in an offensive engine that plays zero defense. Maybe Key sees that and commits to work harder in defense in the future. Otherwise it seems like the Jazz will have a good argument that one way player key is maybe $30 mil type money but nothing close to a max player. Trae Young ends up being a pretty powerful cautionary tale.
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Trae is also much much smaller than Keyonte, and plays less well off the ball. The rookie scale max is also different than vet maxes. If Keyonte hasn't improved his defense at all a few years from now it'll be a problem, but I don't really think it's likely he makes no progress at all on that side. Effort level looks better this year to me.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
what did lauri do in his third year? and fourth?
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The infamous Jim Boylen (Bulls HC at the time) told him to bulk up, which almost destroyed his career. He became a lumbering meat mountain and lost most of the mobility that makes him so special for a 7 footer. (Morgan Freeman voice: "And that was the last anyone heard of Jim Boylen.")

On the Cavs he was mostly back to his old self, but they had a lot of mouths to feed so he got lost in the shuffle.
 
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