[2022 NBA Draft/1-29] TyTy Washington Jr., PG, Kentucky

For anyone interested, here's the recent RGV Vipers highlights.

Washington made a few good assists and a nice defensive stop.
I like how quickly he comes to the right decision and makes crisp passes. He seems to have good PG instincts.

But besides the Harden impression, nothing too fancy or athletic from Washington.

 

20 points for 16 shots is a lot closer to good than inefficient like you said. You were wrong.

 

its inefficient. there's nothing wrong about it. trying to spin it into closer to good means nothing. its a classic cf mental hoops attempt. it's still not good and for the g-league that much worse.

 

G-league defense is so bad. Nobody cares about winning. Everybody tries to get good numbers to jump to the big league.

 

My boy TyTy...the PG we need.

 

TyTy be hooping but it looks like he is paying in mud. He is going so slow and everyone is just falling around him. lol

I've seen enough. TyTy deserves all Twix minutes

 

Get Cassius Stanley up here. I just want to see him have a dunk-off with Jalen. lol.

 

Two great games. I know it's not a great league, but you want your guy to easily do well in the G League. It's better than them not dominating down there.

Really good for getting in better game shape too. Must be getting some good coaching on being an NBA PG and running our offense.

I can see him being a really stabilizing PG off the bench. Remains underrated in my eyes. Could be a top 10 player from his draft class.

 

That opposing team was pretty bad. As the commentator said, "Any time you're making as many three's as the other team is attempting, you're in pretty good shape." LOL.

But man, Washington looks really good. Even after a few games, he's already looking faster and more fluid, and he's showing off a variety of offensive moves.

The reports were that his ankle injury at the beginning of the year was hampering him, but he's looking like he's pretty much over it.

If he keeps this up, he might be another steal of the draft for the Rockets.

 

Once KPJ is gone or moved to the 2 spot, this guy will be taking over as our future PG.

 

Was listening to Tyty, but looking at the reporter...

Spoiler

 

TyTy has really looked good during his Vipers stint. I get that the org doesn’t think it needs to rush TyTy into the rockets rotation, and I’m sure the G-league has been good for him - he’ll have more confidence coming off of his g-league success. But I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do running the floor for the rockets. We need to take this tank year to see what we have with TyTy. So hopefully they don’t wait too long to insert him into the rotation.

 

When evaluating g-league numbers, neither raw nor advanced stats mean much. The only key thing is whether a player is working on the skillsets that the organization asked them to work on, or whether a g-league player is working on skills that make them useful to an NBA team.

As an example, Nix put up significantly better numbers than Alex Caruso in the g-league, but Alex Caruso is the one that gets consistent playing time on winning teams. In fact, Nix also put up significantly better numbers than Capela did in the g-league, but Capela is the one that made himself immediately useful after a year in the g-league. Both Caruso and Capela worked on tools that make them useful to the stars on the team, like hustling, defense and positioning (something that Nix clearly lacks unfortunately).

As long as Tyty is working on things that the organization asks him to work on, I have no doubt he'll be on this roster before long.

 

I’ll be interested to see if he is still on the vipers on:

Jan 20, 2023
8:30 PM ET

 

We need to bring up tyty halfway into the season to see what he's got.

If we whiff on wemby and tyty shows his talent as a pg, do we need to draft scoot?

I want us to do due diligence, bc we really need a point guard.

 

Play tyty, he’s 10x better than Nix

 

Scoot Henderson could very well end up being a better player than both Green & Jabari so yeauh you def draft him even if TyTy shows up and shows out.

 

Hmm didn't think of it that way. Didn't know scoot Henderson had that much potential, to b even better than both Smith and Green, that's scary.