re: Zach Lowe & Kevin Pelton can't imagine a world where Trey isn't starting next year

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He plays too slow. He doesn't pressure the rim

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This is the big issue.

When BI gets a head of steam, just like Zion, he's incredibly hard to stop. I wish he'd attack the paint more like that instead of trying to methodically keep his defender on his hip or side and then shoot a fadeaway.
BI's Eurostep has been really good this year, and we need to see more of it. He's honestly one of the closests players to Giannis in these regards. Yes Giannis is obviously a lot better, but who gets to the rim and uses their long stride and arms to easily get buckets over people like BI does?
The fact that BI is only taking 14% of his total shots at the rim over the last 4 years is a bigger problem than the lack of 3's if you ask me.
I listed all those guys. SGA doesn't take the 3's, but he gets to the rim a lot more than BI does, and the other guys that shoot as many mid range shots as BI might not get to the rim as much either, but they shoot a lot more 3's.
It's not that BI doesn't take enough 3's, or doesn't get to the rim enough. It's that he doesn't take enough 3's AND he doesn't get to the rim enough. If he simply did one of those a bit more it would help tremendously.

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He's an average defender and rebounder.

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And that's not a bad thing. The bad thing is CJ is a really bad defender, and the two of them don't make for a good backcourt.

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People aren't necessarily anti-BI, but rather just recognize that a different set of skills would better maximize a core of Zion/Herb/Trey.

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I do'nt disagree. But i also recognize his mid range creation skill is still needed in todays game, we just all wish he'd not shoot so many of those during the first 3 quarters of the game.