Trae Young might be one of the worst point guards in the league going off ESPN’s “real plus-minus” stat (a stat that is calculated through some combination of Ph.D.-level mathematics, alchemic sorcery, and hard drugs), but he does occasionally have a “good game” where he looks like a legitimate point guard who is legitimately good. Legitimately. I would say that this game is one of those games. His team won, he scored efficiently, he dimed up his teammates, and he hit a clutch three-pointer despite being 1-of-6 on threes before that, meaning he has a “Mamba mentality”.
Really, all Young needs is for his three-ball to come around, and then things will works themselves out. In the meantime, however, he needs to stop jacking up threes whenever he feels like it. You think Steph Curry is setting a bad example for kids by taking all kinds of difficult threes? At least that dude makes them. Young takes all the same difficult threes but makes way fewer of them. If any up-and-coming ballers were watching Hawks games (they probably aren’t), their impressionable minds would be warped by watching Young chuck bad shots he can’t make with seemingly no repercussions.
Maybe this will be my new technique to annoy people at the gym where I play. I’ll just pull up for deep threes and yell “Trae Young!” while doing it, and if anybody wants me to stop doing that, it’s too bad, because I’m the self-appointed ball handler and I get to take the threes that I want.