Sam Vecenie

He's not an awesome decision maker whenever he gets kind of bogged down in the lane.

And on top of that, I think his handle is not particularly great right now.

And the best example of that, I think, came in both the Texas Tech and Arizona games.

And we saw this actually in even Team USA stuff this summer, actually.

But

Whenever teams play this like very gap heavy coverage where they'll like kind of dig in and try to stop his drives, he just kind of automatically picks up the ball and he's always trying to gather and get to the rim and play with his stride length and play with his explosiveness and everything like that.

And again, I don't want to take that away from him, but the guys that win in the NBA is these big apex wing, you know, scorers and decision makers, right?

You can look at Kawhi Leonard.

You can look at Jason Tatum.

You can look at Jimmy Butler, whoever, right?

They all play with a real degree of poise.

And they all play with a real degree of...

okay, this first thing didn't work.

I keep my handle alive.

I put it between my legs and I stop and I try and figure out a different way to draw defenders and then I make a kick out.

Or in Kawhi's case, he just shoots over the top of everybody because he's like one of the two best shooters on planet Earth with Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry, right?

So those skills are right now lacking from AJ.

And I think the player that it reminds me most of whenever I watch him is kind of Jalen Brown when he came out of Cal.

And if you remember that Cal tape with Jalen Brown, he's playing next to Ivan Rad.

He was playing in a situation that is actually like way worse spaced than the situation that AJ is playing in right now at BYU, where he has multiple 40% three-point shooters next to him and Rob Wright and Richie Saunders.