Why Tre Johnson to Wizards was my FAVORITE pick in 2025 NBA Draft

Why Tre Johnson to Wizards was my FAVORITE pick in 2025 NBA Draft

what’s up guys Thanks as always for supporting the show It would mean a lot to me if you would take a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button so you don’t miss any more of our videos Also make sure you follow us all over social media so you don’t miss any of our content or show announcements Trey was my favorite player that I watched uh when I was prepping for this draft class To me he represents the modern NBA score an extremely gifted movement shooter that can shoot both off the dribble and off of action sprinting off of offball screens by going both left and right at full speed with every dribble combination every piece of footwork in the book an awesome work ethic and attitude and yet still a lot of room for improvement Some real upside there He made 126 jump shots this year high volume in the college game with how uh dedicated the defensive game planning is and how hard people play on every single possession It’s extremely difficult to do to make 126 jump shots out of almost 4,000 players in college hoops last year That ranked 30th Really impressive stuff in terms of high volume shot creation He shot 52% as the shooter coming off of offball screens By the way that’s field goals not weighted for threes So he made more than half of his shots in offball action He shot 42% on guarded catch and shoots routinely was hitting tough contested shots on the move coming out of action I think he is going to be have a an awesome situation going into in Washington in the sense that they kind of have this weird team that has all these interesting young defensive players but they also have these older veteran wings And I can’t think of better guys for him to work with directly in terms of slowing the game down and learning how to use physicality and change of pace and to set his man up for screens and to actually get more open Then CJ McCollum and Chris Middleton those are excellent examples of guys that weren’t you know top tier athletes that learned how to use savvy body movements and physical leverage and timing and change of pace to get open off of screening action And so I I think they’re just awesome guys to put with Trey for him to learn how to do a better job of that because like if we look at his areas of opportunity there’s playmaking which we’ll talk about in a minute He obviously needs to improve as a defensive player But a big one for me that I noticed on tape is like he’s still pretty raw in terms of like actually learning how to get himself open which is insane considering how many jump shots he made last year in the college game I still think he has a sizable room for improvement there And we did see in the Xavier game in particular Shawn Miller basically denied him the basketball most of the game by locking and trailing him and and denying him whatever he could and kept his shot attempts down and and and really influenced him And so those are the kinds of things you’re going to run into in the NBA He’s a really good lock and trail defender So how do you do a better job of finding openings within the offense when you’re being guarded that way Well good NBA like you know you don’t think CJ McCollum and Chris Middleton can talk to uh Trey about how screening is a great way to get himself open like hey in these sets if you set really good screens your man has no choice but to help that will give you an opening to get more separation coming off of offball screen Uh little physical details like little like fundamental details like walking your man down before running into an offball screen all of these like little tiny details that will help him get open more frequently in the NBA And then the playmaking piece of it this is where being more of like a traditional I shouldn’t even say traditional the modern NBA scorer actually presents really basic reads as you’re coming off of action right Like oh he shows at the level I’m going to throw the pocket pass I come off and they help at the nail I’m going to throw the swing pass Like they help at the level and they’re packing the paint It’s the skip pass to the opposite corner Like there’s all these like basic reads that you have in these situations And I think CJ and Chris will be able to help a lot with that as well I’m super excited to watch Trey this year in his first NBA campaign

Jason reacts to the 2025 NBA Draft, diving into why Tre Johnson was his favorite prospect to watch when doing prep for the event and why the Washington Wizards are a great fit for him to grow into an elite scorer.

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