Keyonte George’s Star Ascension

[Jazz4ever]

Updated:

Donovan Mitchell: 24.0 PPG, 4.3 APG, 4.4 RPG, 1.0 SPG, on the 45% - 37% - 86% shooting.
Keyonte (so far): 24.2 PPG, 6.8 APG, 4.2 RPG, 0.9 SPG, on the 45% - 37% - 90% shooting.

Their stats are absolutely identical with one exception: Keyonte has way more assists.

Pretty shocking to be honest, considering his first two years were not close to DMs. I didn't have much hope for him after year 2. He was given the keys for 2 straight years and didn't show enough for me.

 

[Jaymz]

I came out of retirement to find this thread

 

[kcgar]

I'm not here to make friends. Got that dawg in me

Nope, just here to offer painfully bad takes that make Eeyore look like Ted Lasso

 

[squareinthecircle]

I blame Jim Rome.

 

[NAOS_pt2]

I'm not here to make friends. Got that dawg in me

Kristi Noem's dawg, maybe?

 

[NAOS_pt2]

No he wasnt. He was always pretty solid. It wasnt really until the Mavs series that it got awful awful.

I would call him an underwhelming defender, but for a star #1 option he was a solid defender for the most part.

nah, bro.

 

[Jaanipoeg]

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.

 

[tksavis]

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.

 

[rippimpc]

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.

Lauri also took forever to finally get good

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Lauri also took forever to finally get good

The man literally averaged 19/9 in his second NBA season and had a 17 PER. Not quite All Star level perhaps, but way, way better than Keyonte last year.

 

[rippimpc]

The man literally averaged 19/9 in his second NBA season and had a 17 PER. Not quite All Star level perhaps, but way, way better than Keyonte last year.

Best part of my day.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

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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.

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