Captain Obvious :
Evans has a variety of nice moves to the right (fake left-dribble right or dribble left-reverse spin back to the right…but his moves to the left need work. Still, he’s a great young player in the league — probably ROY.
It seems to me that a defender just needs to give space (respecting Evans’ quickness) and force left. Why can’t defenders just be disciplined and do this? Heck, even when Evans goes left, most of the time he’ll come back to the right to take the shot. For pick-and-roll situations, I’d just fight through the down-side of the pick and give up the jumpshot. His offensive game is good but seems pretty one-dimensional to me.

I always hear announcers and such say stuff like this and it always confuses me (with Ginobili usually). If you force Tyreke left, he’s going to drive lift, and either get an easy lay up or draw foul. You don’t score 20 ppg in the NBA if you can’t effectively go to your left. He might prefer to go right but he can easily go left if you force him that way. Same thing with Ginobili going right. Just odd that you guys think stopping an elite NBA player is so easy. Have you seen all the tricks Tyreke has in his book?

Great stuff btw, Sebastian.

Think of it like this… What is Lebron James’ position? What about D-Wade? Kobe Bryant? You can’t really say because they don’t really have one. They are just basketball players. Period. Tyreke Evans is no different. This game is natural for him.

The debate about whether or not he is ROY this year is ridiculous. What does ROY stand for… Rookie of The Year. What does that mean? It means the Rookie who played the best in his first year. Even if you never saw this young 20 year old play before, and all you had to go off of was stats, wouldn’t you choose the guy who has the best all around stats? That usually means that they are a good player right? Regardless of what team and or conference that person is in (which for Tyreke is arguably the toughest), you have to be good in order to average 20.3 PPG, 5.2 Reb, 5.6 Ast, 1.4 Stl, 2.9 TO, all while only taking 16.2 shots per game, on a 46% clip. ALL FREAKING SEASON!! There’s only 15 or so games left in the season people. This kid is only 20 years old. Again, how there is any debate on this baffles me.

Oh yeah, and for the past 4 games he’s been nearly averaging a Triple Double. Only one stat away twice, while recording 1 legitimately. If the voting for ROY were to be done by the players & coaches in the League only, and not the media and morons, you can bet everything you own that they would all choose Tyreke as the best rookie this year. Nearly all of the All-Stars have made public mention to that fact. Why do you think every team has to plan their entire defensive scheme around trying to stop him? That should speak for itself.

The only reason others have surfaced into the debate of this ROY Race is because Kings basketball doesn’t start until 10:30pm on the East Coast. And everybody knows that the East Coast control this media hype machine that society has grown to rely on. And even for those few on the East Coast who may want to stay up late and watch a late West Coast game, why would they want to waste their valuable time watching Kings game? San Francisco / Oakland is so much cooler.

Wow! Did I just write all that. LMAO. I think I made my point.

I keep hearing John Wall would be great, but the simple reason that would be a no would be that both players are ball-dominant guards. That’s why Memphis took Harden, because they already have KD and Westbrook.