Is JALEN JOHNSON the Atlanta HAWKS’ next big star? | No Cap Room | Yahoo Sports

Is JALEN JOHNSON the Atlanta HAWKS’ next big star? | No Cap Room | Yahoo Sports

No one’s been watching the Hawks as they continue to be just average but if you haven’t seen Jaylen Johnson this year when he’s been healthy I don’t know what his ceiling is going to be but the dude at his Peaks this year is giving kind of scary flashes of Blake Griffin with the

Clippers and Ben Simmons and Philly before obviously Ben fell off I was gonna say I think I might need to make the noise from like to yeah but before that before that three-time All-Star multi-time all defensive nod blah blah blah when the trade wins started and dejonte Murray’s name was out there

Atlanta was willing to trade everyone but Trey young and Jaylen Johnson and his path being someone who went to Duke he was supposed to be the next Tatum the next Brandon Ingram a top 10 pick and during the pre-draft time rumors are flying left and right people are

Dragging players names through the mud and it’s just this game where teams were jockeying for positioning hoping certain players fall and agents are withholding information trying to get their guys in certain situations and if you mention Jaylen Johnson’s name they will say oh well there’s all this stuff you know Duke he

Was uncoachable and didn’t listen and didn’t have a motor and blah blah blah when I flew down to Atlanta and I sat down with this kid and I’ve spoken to people from his high school coach to his g-league coach when he first got to Atlanta someone at Duke his parents the

Whole village that has raised this kid into someone who’s now averaging 158 and three and a half you know approaching four assists a game the three-point shot was up at 40% in the beginning of the year I mean the kid has done everything he can to reverse every false narrative

About him in the draft he is grinding after practice he’s always getting work in at the same basket with Quinn Snyder kind of hover and Quinn is looking at this dude like a ball of putty that he can stretch out and roll up and put in different situations at all times he is

Definitely someone that Quinn Snyder is fully fully bullish on will be able to take a leap kind of similar to like Kobe white I think next year in his fourth year like can he be a real All-Star candidate and win is putting him in all these

Types of positions on both sides of the pick and roll as a screener and a ball handler if you really want to see what this dude is fully capable that is where he shines the most when he has the ball on the open floor full head of steam I

Mean the guy is he’s he’s unleashing poster dunks so if this is sounding hyperbolic check out the tape man

Is Jalen Johnson the Atlanta Hawks’ next big star? Yahoo Sports senior NBA writers Jake Fischer and Dan Devine take a closer look at Atlanta Hawks small forward Jalen Johnson. Fischer spent some time recently with Johnson and reveals how the young player is dispelling pre-draft concerns about his personality and why he is Atlanta’s next big star in-waiting.

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