Whether Trae Young is a copy of Curry or not depends on what angle you analyze. If it's a shooter, say it's an influence on shooting three-pointers, Trae Young is not as good as Curry, but it can be discussed in one place. And if the positioning between the two, the impact on the team, and the way they play, then Trae Young is certainly not Curry's type of character. Or Rather, Trae Young could not have been measured in terms of Curry's framework. Because of the problems reported by the scouting, many people feel that Trae Young's draft template is Curry, and now the Eagles have given such a large space for development, and Trae Young will definitely follow this template in the future.
This is a very wrong idea, because from the existing samples, two people are completely different styles. What is Curry's style of play? Under Cole's tutelage, Curry's play style is biased towards a combination of ball and non-ball. More precisely, Curry is more like a player who is mainly without the ball, but if he encounters difficulties, he can also switch to a player with the ball. The advantage of this style of play is that the system with Curry as the core is more varied and more diverse. Thanks to this, Curry can be so terrifying a threat on the pitch. Trae Young is not, and his playing style is more based on holding the ball. In the Hawks' tactical system, there is no other player who can hold the ball and let Trae Young play without the ball. So now Trae Young is a bit like the big core of the ball holding like James and Doncic.
In the 20th season, Trae Young's ball-holding offense accounted for 53% of his total offense, and he was the league's favorite player to hold the ball. If combined with other means of possession such as switching offenses, Trae Young's total possession offense can account for 78% of the total offense. This ratio is the first in the league. In other words, under the premise of ensuring production and efficiency, no one prefers to solve problems with ball holding than Trae Young.
Seeing here, some people may say, is it that Curry can't become a big core with the ball, so it is said that Trae Young is not like Curry? Not really! It's not that Curry can't appear as a big core of ball-holding, but this style of play will not play the full value of Curry. It would be too wasteful for a player with no ball ability to limit himself to the frame of holding the ball. And Trae Young is in the Hawks' system, holding the ball can play its full effect. So, that's the biggest difference between the two players. Almost all of the players in the league who can use similar playing styles to help the team win are very paranoid cornerstone players, such as James and Doncic that we mentioned earlier.
To be honest, if Trae Young is allowed to play without the ball, can the team win? It's about swapping between Curry and Trae Young. For this piece, I personally feel that the problem is not big. Trae Young's ability to not have the ball is actually outstanding, and his sense of no ball is very good, willing to make sacrifices for the rest of the team. That's the main reason we've always said that Trae Young can be a qualified leader. Suffice it to say that the Hawks are now able to give assists to a pitifully small number of players. There was no way, Trae Young could only continue to do so. Maybe one day the team has a good ball holder, Trae Young can play at a different level, which is possible.
Having said that, we need to talk about Trae Young's efficiency. The comparison between Curry and Trae Young is not involved here, because both are very good scorers. Entering the league's second year, Trae Young's three basic stats were 29.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 9.3 assists, the standard image of an organizational scorer. Although Trae Young's three-point shooting rate is not as high as Curry's players, the actual effect of Trae Young is still good in the support of production and basic data. At least for now, no team dares to directly empty Trae Young, otherwise it will face his anger three points.
Some people say that Trae Young's efficiency of switching offense seems to be average, why is there no direct criticism here? This statement also makes sense. Because Trae Young's conversion offense only scored 1.08 points per round, it can only be regarded as an average level. But everyone must also understand that Trae Young is now the offensive arrow of the Eagles, and his offensive range is so large, how can the opponent allow him to attack freely? So from a very early stage, the opponent will already arrange to assist the defense to deal with Trae Young's conversion attack. Under enormous defensive pressure, it's reasonable that Trae Young can't play a more efficient conversion round.
In terms of situation, Trae Young is a player with the ball as the main core and is characterized by a uniform distribution of magic balls. You can also understand that Trae Young is not very extreme or very unbalanced in the offensive area. In the middle distance area, Trae Young has the fewest shots, accounting for less than 10%. In the paint area, Trae Young shot 45%, and in the three-point line area, shot 45%. Compared to Harden's extreme magic ball player, Ret young's performance is more like a qualified magic ball leader.
Moreover, Trae Young's shooting rate in various areas is actually not low, especially in the paint area, the skinny Trae Young's shooting rate exceeds 53%, which is also a first-line level in the point guard. Therefore, many people think that Trae Young will only use three points to solve the game, and the stereotype of being weak in confrontation is actually a big mistake. Trae Young's offensive choice also shows a truth, he is not for the so-called high efficiency of the choice of magic ball, is to see where the team needs him to make up, he strengthened the attack of some place. This is a tinkering type of player, not a dictator who only thinks about scoring and only thinking about performing alone.
Is there anything Trae Young needs to continue to improve? Yes! As a defender, Trae Young lacks the kind of key ability to hammer the nail on the head. Basically, the players who can decide the winner or loser in the finals are small forward types. Trae Young is a defender and his voice at key moments is weaker. Without a suitable team as a support, it will be difficult for Trae Young to win the championship on his own. This phenomenon has also appeared in Curry, and everyone knows that Curry's offensive level is very high, but no one will say that Curry's key ball ability is very strong. If you look at it from the identity point of view, Curry is a defender, his physical condition, he is still unable to directly kill the game when he finally faces the opponent's terrifying defense. This also works for Trae Young. Maybe only if the Eagles pair him with a better team, or if he practices an unparalleled killing move, can all this be solved.