Noted basketball terrorist Trae Young, often hailed as the worst defender in the NBA has managed to pull his defensive EPM to almost 0.0 (it actually should be once tonight’s game is taken into account). All jokes aside this is pretty impressive stuff as he has managed to improve on defense year after year and is currently top 10 in steals as well. His efficiency is shaky in the new system that Quin installed but stuff like this is nice to see.
||Offensive and Defensive EPM||| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |Player |Offense|Defense||| |Trae Young|3.9|-0.1|||
Look we aren’t trying to say he’s a great defender, but he’s far from “the worst defender in history” now, he’s clearly trying which is more than you can say about some.
All this to say: Two way Trae is here 😤