How beautiful it was once, how desolate it is now.
Four years ago, when Zion Williamson announced his joining Duke University, the Blue Devils instantly became the most watched team in the entire NCAA, because they gathered the top 3 high school students in the 18th class, the other 2 were RJ Barrett and Cam Redish, which was the first team to include the first, second, and third high school students in the United States since the emergence of rookie comprehensive indicator data in 1998, and Mike Shashevsky was once again crowned as a god in the history of American college basketball. The most outstanding recruiting experts.
Unfortunately, despite Duke's talent in the NCAA, in the crazy March, they still lost to Michigan, stopped in the quarterfinals, although they failed to win the cup, but in the draft a few months later, they were still the most watched rookies in the whole field, and in the end, Zion was elected, RJ Butler was elected tanhua, and Reddish, he was also successfully selected in the 10th place.
Now, 3 years later, what about the development of these three brothers?
Zion Williamson
At present, Zion is the most potential of the three masters, but also the most superstar image, the first season to hand over an average of 22.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists a list of achievements, shooting 58%, three-point shooting rate of 43%, last season, he averaged 27 points per game, shooting rate of more than 60%, although only 21 years old, it is no exaggeration to say that Zion has become the most threatening inside killer in this league.
Unfortunately, Zion's body is too fragile, so far in his career, he has not even played 100 games, and since his injury in May last year, he has not yet had a clear comeback time, and it is no wonder that some fans and the media regard him as the next Greg Oden.
RJ-Barrett
Compared to Zion, Barrett's health is still relatively healthy, but on the field, his talent has not been fully transformed into combat strength, as the 19th Tanhua, even the best rookie lineup did not go in, last season, Barrett although let New York see a glimmer of hope, not only personal efficiency improvement, especially outside the three-point line, shooting rate of nearly 40%, under his and Randall's leadership, the Knicks this fish belly player, miraculously hit the 4th place in the East.
However, just as New York fans were looking forward to Barrett being able to lead them to win more games, the "sniper" was turned off again, and this season, his true shooting rate fell to only 51.3%, and inefficiency once again became a problem hindering Barrett's growth.
Cam Redish
Don't look at Reddish as just the No. 10 show, but his talent is not inferior to Zion and Barrett, and the reason why the draft is not good is mainly because at Duke University, Reddish did not get enough ball rights and tactical status.
I thought that after entering the NBA, Reddish would be taken seriously, but now it seems that his treatment is almost the same as that of the Duke era, and unfortunately, last season, Reddish also missed most of the season due to injury, missing the best period of growth, which also buried the foreshadowing for his next trade.
The reason is simple, the Hawks have tasted the Taste of the Eastern Conference Finals last year, and in the next few years, they will not waste time cultivating new people, and Redish, his current ability, is obviously not suitable for a team with a playoff goal, or even a higher goal, so even if he is sent to the Knicks, the latter still intends to continue to trade him, as of now, Reddish's average playing time in New York is only a pitiful 11.5 minutes, where is the future?