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Tatum can't playmake
Ingram has being playing point for the Lakers with success
Ingram can't shoot. Tatum has been shooting for Boston with success.
You can do the comparison with basically every individual skill, and Tatum wins most of them. Most importantly, he plays better winning basketball, and all of the advanced statistics back that up. Tatum wasn't exactly a dynamo in his second year, but he was still better than Ingram was.
Maybe it does. Maybe it's 100% the entire reason he was bad so far in his career. That doesn't allow people to claim he's something he's not though (best SF under 25). Hopefully a new environment will really change him up and allow him to reach his potential.
We can all acknowledge his past wasn't good and still look forward to the future.
For an 11 game span, sure. I don't personally like to make a habit of judging players on sample sizes that small: as I've pointed out before, if you just judge E'twaun Moore by the first 15 games of this season, he's an elite roleplayer shooting 50% from three and averaging damn near 20 points a game.
Tatum shot 40+% from three his entire rookie year, and still averaged 38% last year despite the disappointment.
I am not a doctor but my understanding is once you've had one blood clot you have an increased risk of having another:
"If you’ve had one VTE, there is a chance of recurrent venous thromboembolism, or the formation of a new clot that travels to the lungs."
I'm sure it's far more complex than that but there is an increased risk.
I am a physician, and from everything I've seen written about Ingram's blood clot, it appears that this was a structural issue (thoracic outlet syndrome) that caused blood to clot in his arm where the circulation was slowed due to compression of a blood vessel in that area. He should not be at any more risk for a blood clot now that the structural abnormality has been fixed. There has been no mention that Ingram has a genetic tendency to develop blood clots, so he is not expected to have a long-term problem with this.
I love Ingram. His ISO abilities makes him a huge weapon for this team. He’s a great bailout option as he can get off any shot he wants and at any time. The only thing missing in his offensive game is obviously a respected deepball. I think he’s going to average 3.5 -4 attempts a game in Gentry’s offense. Hopefully it’s hovers over 35% which I think is reasonable for him.
Ingram just seem to have the most upside. I can't possibly believe that he'll remain a 200 lb string bean his whole career. I also believe once he adds weight and becomes stronger, you'll see a new demension to his game.
Ingram is only 20 and had an amazing jumper in college, it’ll return. Plus getting away from dumpsters LA will make him better like DLo and randle
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