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Taylor Hendricks Hype Thread

fishonjazz said:
I have enjoyed seeing him do more passing, ball handling, floaters, rim runs/dunk so far this season.
Small sample size but comparing his first two season numbers vs this season his field goal percentage is up, 3 point percentage is up, efg is up (by alot), points are up (all those shooting/scoring numbers are career highs), rebounds are up. (career high per 36)

His minutes so far this season are a career low though. Rookie year he averaged 21.4 mpg, second season averaged 25.0 mpg, and this season is currently at 17.5 mpg. If niang comes back and Ace minutes go up and Kyle anderson ever cracks the rotation then he might be in the G league.

Hopefully his minutes increase as his conditioning/injury recovery increases.
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If Hendricks's on-the-court development isn't a huge storyline this year, then I'm going to be pissed. He's easily in the top-3 or top-4 jazz players that matter the most to the longer-term trajectory of this team (over the next 3 to 5 seasons).
 
NAOS_pt2 said:
If Hendricks's on-the-court development isn't a huge storyline this year, then I'm going to be pissed. He's easily in the top-3 or top-4 jazz players that matter the most to the longer-term trajectory of this team (over the next 3 to 5 seasons).
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Hopefully he gets the opportunities.
 
Taylor is a good athlete by NBA standards but he needs to up his mental game on D to be effective. To be fair so does almost everyone on the team.
 
fishonjazz said:
Small sample size but comparing his first two season numbers vs this season his field goal percentage is up, 3 point percentage is up, efg is up (by alot), points are up (all those shooting/scoring numbers are career highs), rebounds are up. (career high per 36)
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That is pure comedy. Taylor attempted 9 shots this season and had 9 rebounds. He took five 3-point shots. It is utterly meaningless to calculate any season averages and percentages before he plays at least 10 games.
 
Or, maybe, we need to celebrate that Keyonte became one of the best passers in the NBA. Currently his APG is ahead of Young, Harden and Doncic.
 
It's so weird some people are buying real estate from Taylor Hendricks island.

I mean I'm happy for the guy – he had a terrible injury and had to work hard to recover – but Hendricks never showed any marketable NBA skills even before he got hurt. The only reason he's playing in actual regular season games right now is because he's in Utah.
 
Hendricks is weird to evaluate in that he's in year 3, but he's still so young and has played so little that hard to set expectations for how he should be playing. It's also the case that Hendricks is a PF and the clear 3rd PF on the roster so that makes it harder for him to find minutes. I don't think I'll be able to say anything about him until the end of the season at best.
 
jazznik said:
That is pure comedy. Taylor attempted 9 shots this season and had 9 rebounds. He took five 3-point shots. It is utterly meaningless to calculate any season averages and percentages before he plays at least 10 games.
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Oh you think I said it's meaningful. I see why you are confused now.
I didn't.
 
jazznik said:
Or, maybe, we need to celebrate that Keyonte became one of the best passers in the NBA. Currently his APG is ahead of Young, Harden and Doncic.
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That would be a weird thing to do.
Would be fine to be happy see some improvement as a passer so far this season though.
 
I watched Tay Henny's twin brother play against Boise State this afternoon. Bro Henny had a relatively modest six points in a 24 point win for Boise State over Utah Valley. I doubt the brother is on any NBA team's radar.
 
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