Always better to look at the full season sample than to parse it into smaller buckets. I allowed that his crazy numbers through 300 minutes were likely not anywhere close to real, but also suspected he'd regress into the still-pretty-impressive range he's in now. I gave the trendlines of his rookie year, the reports out of training camp, and his stellar G-league as evidence of a 20-21 year old who was hitting a new baseline after a rough first few months in his rookie season over a year ago.Jordan Poole's last 16 games: .364/.313/.865, 11.8 points, 2.5 assists, 1.7 rebounds in 22.7 mpg.
He had a hot stretch and that hot stretch is over. Yet his stats are still heavily inflated by that hot stretch.
I'd take Herro and Trent all day over Poole without thinking twice.
All three players are wicked young, so could fluctuate pretty wildly over the next couple years, but Trent's lack of game outside of spotting up for threes concerns me a bit. He has shown some defensive chops (probably more than Poole?) so could still settle into a "poor man's Klay" archetype, but I'm more intrigued by the ability to create off the dribble of Herro and Poole.
A couple in the same general age range and archetype who intrigue me: Kevin Porter Jr. and Talen Horton-Tucker. Though if we're docking Herro for character issues, not sure what we do about KPJ....
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