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Tony Wroten
RoadDawg55
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I saw he scored 30 last night, so I searched for some articles on him. According to one advanced stat, Wroten has been the least efficient player in the league, and his coach said he plays "AAU ball." I agree with the coach. You know the 76ers are tanking (wiw) when they allow Wroten to shoot 2.7 3's per game at 22%!
I still think he has a future in the league. He needs to forget about shooting 3's though. It's never happening. What he can do is get to the hoop better than 90% of the players in the NBA. He's also 6'6", fairly strong, and can jump, but he still isn't a great finisher at the hoop/ If he played less AAU ball and focused on playing defense, passing, getting to the rim and the foul line, hitting 72%+ from the foul line, he can be a very good player. The problem is he is still basically the same frustrating player, and although he is young, it is logical to question if it will ever change.
I still think he has a future in the league. He needs to forget about shooting 3's though. It's never happening. What he can do is get to the hoop better than 90% of the players in the NBA. He's also 6'6", fairly strong, and can jump, but he still isn't a great finisher at the hoop/ If he played less AAU ball and focused on playing defense, passing, getting to the rim and the foul line, hitting 72%+ from the foul line, he can be a very good player. The problem is he is still basically the same frustrating player, and although he is young, it is logical to question if it will ever change.
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Anybody that watching Tony play can see his strengths (great ability to get to the rim, finish with his left hand, body length) and his weaknesses (can't shoot, has very poor fundamentals and attention to detail, no right hand).
The hope (if you are Philly) is that by getting this kind of playing time at the NBA level (which is actually a great situation for Tony if he was using it right) that he'll learn the things he's good at and not so good at, work on some of those things he's not so good at, and avoid trying to be what he isn't. I'm not convinced that he'll be able to do that.
As for another UW product in IT, on one hand he's turned out to be a better pro than what I thought he would be. He's taken a situation where he's gotten an opportunity and ran with it. I still think that his real calling in a career on a good team will be playing 25-30 minutes a game off the bench as a catalyst for the #2 unit. To me it's very telling that Boston thought so much of a package consisting of IT, Ben McLemore, and picks that they turned that down for Rajon Rondo.
Too bad for those people that I know far more about basketball than I do about football.
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