Ben Taylor
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4,322 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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In a pretty young, I think he was like age twenty season in Memphis.
Then he comes off the bench in Memphis.
Then he goes to Houston, he comes off the bench, then he starts in Houston, then he goes to Toronto, then he starts in Toronto.
Finally in 2014, he has a year where uh that's his eighth season, by the way, if you're keeping track.
Things start to click, and then in his ninth season, he makes his first all-star team uh and makes a bunch of all-star teams.
teams until after the pandemic in twenty twenty one, two years post title.
Like, that is the kind of um sort of development arc that I just
How do you you can't see it on the court is what I guess I'm saying.
You could probably see it behind the scenes, but we don't have to your point about data, we used to not have film, now we have film, we used to not have numbers, now we have numbers, we don't have any of the access to the behind the scenes stuff where you're really trying to understand what makes a player churn.
in their growth process in those critical like first three to five years, two two to four years.
The crazy thing to add one more layer to the Lowry piece, which which I think gets into these development touch points you're talking about and maybe can swing us back around to some other twenty twenty six examples in your head.
He was on a really good college team in Villanova.
He was not the first Villanova guard picked in that draft.
even even though if you watch the team at the college level, much like with Brunson, you might come away feeling like Lowry's the star of the team.
Lowry's the key money like money time end of game big moment player on the team.
But Randy Foy was taken seventh.
in that draft.
So you have other guards that were taken in front of him, including his own teammate, who has more of this sort of quote unquote upside, which I think has everything to do with the physical pop.
What we talked about, Lowry's shorter, doesn't move quite as fast, et cetera, et cetera.
So I that to me is just endlessly fascinating when I look at like a fresh crop of players coming in.
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