Sorry but total misread.
It doesn't matter where you play: New Orleans, Orlando, Sacramento, Timbucktoo. If you can play, you get noticed in this era of streaming and all-access from handheld device.
Of course Tyreke flat-lined. He actually did worse than flat-line. He regressed. He averaged 20/5/5 as a rookie and never approximated those numbers again. The whole league knows what he wants to do. He wants to get to the rim every time. And this worked to a degree when he had his knees under him. But even when he was healthy there was NOT enough diversity to his attack. NO left hand. NO mid range game. And an outside shot that required you to cover the eyes of woman and children.
On the defensive end he is TOO big to get around picks. He gets hung up on picks all the time. So while he has the length and strength to be plus defender, it never translated consistently because a basic pick would often take him out of the play.
Tyreke is unique. It was all downhill after his ROY season. Well actually he shares this career arc with Michael Carter Williams. Two guys with so much promise and so much unfulfilled potential. There is actually an explanation to account for their fortune, or misfortune, as it were....
Both these guys were NEVER as good as their rookie seasons indicated. They were a product of their environment and usage rate commensurate with the lack of talent surrounding them. Had both the 76er and Kings had better supporting casts at the respective time, their numbers would NOT have been as lofty, and their absolute production would not have masked their relatively inefficient production for a "star" level player. In other words, their stats were relatively empty as rookies and the balance of their careers reflected this hollowness.
If Tyreke would have developed a jumper, and in-between game, a left hand, and stayed relatively injury-free, it could have played out differently for him, here or elsewhere. But I soured on Tyreke before the injuries, before he was traded. I think the injury was an inevitability of his uni-dimensionality. There is only so many times you attack full force into the bigs and not pay the consequences physically. Derrick Rose is another example of this. PGs need to diversify their offensive attack or else they are an endangered species list of one.
It doesn't matter where you play: New Orleans, Orlando, Sacramento, Timbucktoo. If you can play, you get noticed in this era of streaming and all-access from handheld device.
Of course Tyreke flat-lined. He actually did worse than flat-line. He regressed. He averaged 20/5/5 as a rookie and never approximated those numbers again. The whole league knows what he wants to do. He wants to get to the rim every time. And this worked to a degree when he had his knees under him. But even when he was healthy there was NOT enough diversity to his attack. NO left hand. NO mid range game. And an outside shot that required you to cover the eyes of woman and children.
On the defensive end he is TOO big to get around picks. He gets hung up on picks all the time. So while he has the length and strength to be plus defender, it never translated consistently because a basic pick would often take him out of the play.
Tyreke is unique. It was all downhill after his ROY season. Well actually he shares this career arc with Michael Carter Williams. Two guys with so much promise and so much unfulfilled potential. There is actually an explanation to account for their fortune, or misfortune, as it were....
Both these guys were NEVER as good as their rookie seasons indicated. They were a product of their environment and usage rate commensurate with the lack of talent surrounding them. Had both the 76er and Kings had better supporting casts at the respective time, their numbers would NOT have been as lofty, and their absolute production would not have masked their relatively inefficient production for a "star" level player. In other words, their stats were relatively empty as rookies and the balance of their careers reflected this hollowness.
If Tyreke would have developed a jumper, and in-between game, a left hand, and stayed relatively injury-free, it could have played out differently for him, here or elsewhere. But I soured on Tyreke before the injuries, before he was traded. I think the injury was an inevitability of his uni-dimensionality. There is only so many times you attack full force into the bigs and not pay the consequences physically. Derrick Rose is another example of this. PGs need to diversify their offensive attack or else they are an endangered species list of one.
