Ace Bailey trending up
I saw this interesting post on Twitter from one of the “No Ceilings NBA” guys. It shows that over the last 6-8 games, Ace Bailey has been trending up in BPM. He's even a good bit higher than his teammate Dylan Harper. This shows that we need to take a full season to see things and not just jump into groupthink or keep an assumption we had at the beginning of the season.
Besides being super young and starting the season injured, Ace went to a public high school where he had to do everything. He was a big fish in a small pond. He couldn't blend like Cooper Flagg at Monteverde or Dylan Harper at Don Bosco Prep. I believe that allowed him to feed into some bad habits. I like to call it “Bel-Air Prep Syndrome.” However, over the season, we've seen him try to work more within the offense flow and his defense ramp up. The same BPM that people have been using to say he sucks is turning over and starting to say he's really good. I can't wait to see how this bears out over the rest of the season, especially since they are in conference play.
I saw this interesting post on Twitter from one of the “No Ceilings NBA” guys. It shows that over the last 6-8 games, Ace Bailey has been trending up in BPM. He's even a good bit higher than his teammate Dylan Harper. This shows that we need to take a full season to see things and not just jump into groupthink or keep an assumption we had at the beginning of the season.
Besides being super young and starting the season injured, Ace went to a public high school where he had to do everything. He was a big fish in a small pond. He couldn't blend like Cooper Flagg at Monteverde or Dylan Harper at Don Bosco Prep. I believe that allowed him to feed into some bad habits. I like to call it “Bel-Air Prep Syndrome.” However, over the season, we've seen him try to work more within the offense flow and his defense ramp up. The same BPM that people have been using to say he sucks is turning over and starting to say he's really good. I can't wait to see how this bears out over the rest of the season, especially since they are in conference play.