SUMMER LEAGUE: Gm 5 84-95 loss, JH 15 pts, 3 ast, 3 rbd, 7 TO

[Kammrath]

This was my point on draft night.  But I worry that he and the Mav's want him to be a three level scorer who handles the ball a lot and has high usage.  That is what he is against summer league and G-league competition with fairly inefficient results.  

I'm not positive that should be his NBA role to start and the more he tries to be that the more I fear he won't make it.  I'd rather he start as a three point shooter getting wide open looks here who can beat an aggressive closeout.  Let him find some success on something it appears he can learn to do and add the other stuff later.  Unfortunately, that won't happen being the star of our team in Frisco.  He's going to have to do it in NBA games which means spoon feeding him some minutes in his proper early career role rather than letting him develop bad habits in the minors.

I resonate with a lot of this. 

But I have been coming back to how bad JB looked in summer league and early on in his career being a high usage ball handler, struggling to adjust to the speed, athleticism, etc. I think JH looks way more advanced than JB did at the same juncture and he was a full two years older than JH. 

JB was more restrained so he wouldn't keep pushing to produce largely inefficient nights as often but instead would fade when things weren't working. I like that JH doesn't give up and presses on confidently, BUT that can lead to bad habits of inefficiency. 

Frankly, I trust the Mavs staffers to figure out how to best develop JH. Recently they have been earning my trust again.

I bet if RC was here that JH would be relegated to spot up shooting, but JK really seems to give guys the freedom to explore all of their potential strengths.