Atlanta Hawks’ Trae Young All-Star Practice Media Availability

Atlanta Hawks’ Trae Young All-Star Practice Media Availability

So Trey it’s not your not your first time here what has your your routine kind of changed at all over the years or what do you how are you approaching it now oh uh no my routine ain’t really changed um I mean it’s uh it’s not as

Busy as it was my first year um or my second um still busy but doing a lot of things but just a little bit little bit less for sure of back for sure yeah I like that better I think the players are going to like it

Better I mean I mean it’s cool playing uh picking teams and all but I mean it’s different whenever you’re picking in front of a national National fan base rather than just it being in a back room and you pick it out uh so I think it’s better this way anyways uh East versus

West can probably be a little bit more competitive too so Detroit as an elite pick and roll point guard what is the progression in your read or what you trying to gauge to how to attack a defense uh I mean when I come off the screen the first thing I look at is

Obviously the big man Defender who’s guarding him if he’s in a drop or if he’s up and then uh after that I have to read the tag man who’s ever roll uh tagging the roller uh if he doesn’t tag the roller I can throw a l or he tags

The roller usually the guy who’s tagging it is the corner man and his man he’s wide open shooter so that’s really my my progression and with the biggest in the drop I can get downhill and shoot floaters all day so that’s pretty much my progression hey yo Trey what’s on

Your M rush for the best basketball movies of all time best basketball movies of all time I get four right you get four yeah uh he got games one uh loving basketball um man boers and uh Rim I got one more for you if you can play alongside any NBA legend who would

You pick any NBA legend ah dang that’s a great question there’s a lot I can play with and special uh I don’t know I probably pick Shaq Shaq how would that pick and roll look like I don’t need no pick and roll man and if I said it right

He said a p I’m getting what WBA player do you think her game is similar to yours oh uh I don’t know uh I don’t know if there is anybody I don’t like to look at myself like that uh I I think there’s a lot of really talented players I like

Watching Sabrina um kayin Clark’s about to be in the W here soon and um I there’s a lot of really good players and young I mean guards that can shoot it and get everybody involved too so it’s it’s a lot of talent you weren’t here this week where would you be on

Vacation where would I be I’m going to Orlando with Garland so I’m going to Disney World regardless that fun of my family ab and then do you have a dream three-point match up anyone in history um dream three-point match up no I mean I I get to I’ve Been Around the best who

Ever shot the ball so I I don’t have a really dream match up Three-Point Contest is right up your alley what’s your confidence level going into tonight uh I mean I’m I’m I’m more confident than I’ve been before for sure uh I think my first year I got knocked out

First round last year was championship and c I think broke a record that year to beat me I’m like uh it was tough but now I’m here hopefully I can get one more step forward and win it all so we’ll see what are your thoughts about Victor with Bama being in the skills

Competition what kind of does that say about a 7 foot4 guy to be in something oh yeah that says a lot about him and I mean his game and his competitive level I mean he’s a I mean he’s a a different different breed I mean being able to be

That tall and do a lot of different things it’s just kind of crazy so you think he can be successful in a competition like that yeah what I think you can be successful in that I mean you know it’s for quick guys going around through cones and stuff and he has long

Legs it don’t matter how quick guys feet feet are like he can he can run he can he can stretch his arm out like it doesn’t matter like he’s going to catch up with time with his M his and his inside so he he’s really good the Spurs

Have a lot of trade Capital there’s a lot of talk about them putting a star next to him what kind of star do you think would be best next to a guy like Victor wani style of player I mean the kind of player that can help him win a

Championship I mean make it make his job easier for him I mean somebody is helping so that’s that’s the type of player he needs around anybody come to mind not right now May player besides myself um uh cuz I really started 11 just for

Myself uh I mean I’m a big fan of about Thomas like yeah you know what I’m saying so one championships one of the best point guards of all time so one of the best 11s ever if you could only watch one TV show for the rest of your

Life what would it be o one TV show um I’m a big Martin fan I probably watch everyone so I probably still do Martin and then if you could One V one anybody in the NBA history who would it be one V one uh I don’t know IID probably go I’ll

Probably go with to guard to probably like Alan Iverson probably Legend guy we’re seeing guys SC 6070 points what do you think the threshold can get can somebody get to 100 in this modern era I mean possibly with the time if it gets to double triple overtime you never know

Um I mean just the talent level a lot of people say it’s cuz bad defense who knows but I think I think it’s was more about like guys being talented and how talented guys are like I mean the slow twep guys do like it’s I mean a lot

Of stuff is new nowadays so it’s um I mean it can it can happen I don’t know if it’s going to happen here soon but it would happen because of something crazy like that they need to change the rules to help the defense a little bit because

The scoring room is just kind of crazy even during your career well I mean if you want to if you want to watch defense whole game add defense in 3 seconds I mean that’s you watch colge basketball games be 80 to 80 or 80 to 70 so you

Really want to watch defense then add the defense of three tet back and people stop complaining about it what do you want to watch I mean what does the fans the majority want to watch it’s not about what Trey young wants to watch majority and the majority seems like

They I mean as b as much as they want to talk about the defense we play I don’t even think as the defense H I think it’s the talent of the offense and the the rules that they allow the offense to have over the defense and uh put two and

Two together the offense is obviously going to be better than the defense can I how to say nut all right perf man nice meeting you I would change it to three cuz I grew I grew up playing with number no it’s not cuz I think I’m better

Than Trey who in the league who in the league is barbecue chicken every time you place them also red Doritos or blue Doritos I mean I like the thing anybody who I see is that but uh I don’t know I’ll probably go red Steph or Serina

Sabrina got the record I got to go step though I’m going take the easy way and cop out but a little bit 101 playing to 21 what’s the score final score us two come on now come on say it to 21 yes who get ball first make

It take it me clearly okay you get ball first you may I may let you have a point let you have one give me two points okay I’ll give you two and then 21 okayy do you have a message to Hawks fans back at home

Um I uh n back to HW fans I mean for me I just hope they they enjoy the weekend hope they I put on the show for them represent them the way that they they want me to and I go out and put on the show have you had many thoughts about

Playing in the Olympics this summer are you guys having conversations at all about that this week weekend has Grant Hill approached you at all yeah I mean uh right now I’m just focused on my team I mean it’s been brought up and things about that but I a I ain’t really look

Too far ahead I’m just focused on right now and uh getting this weekend and then trying to figure out finish the rest of the season out before being named and replacement we the second guy in history 25 plus 55 plus two shooting and 10 plus assist to not make your game first you

Last year why do you think uh you’re being overlooked sometimes um I have no I have no idea I mean who knows who knows what it why it is that way but U I don’t really get caught up in it I just I’m going to continue to go

Out and play the way I do and try to win and I know that will continue to take care of itself but I don’t get caught up in why why I’m not this or that I just I know it all it’ll all turn Adventure

Trey if you can add one rule to the NBA what would it be I could add one rule to the NBA um man uh a lot of rules I would like to add uh I don’t know I don’t know I don’t think there’s one I think it’d be

Something with the to deal with I don’t know I’m not about to get F too much in the NBA right now tra too much offense yeah too much scoring not enough defense I mean what do you think well it’s my job to ask the question well it’s not my job to change the

Answer I don’t know what it is I don’t I don’t really know I think the talent is really high like offensive players are really smart I think the the defense isn’t allowed to do as much as they used to used to and the fans want want to

Change and all that stuff and just added defensive three seconds I mean that’s what college basketball is so I mean scores will be 80 to 70 or it would be a lot shorter and a lot smaller but it’s because the defense is allowed to do more so it’s not necessarily about not

Necessarily about the offense being better or anything like that or no defense being played it’s about the the defense not being allowed to do what they really really can or Steph Saina for Theo contest uh I got I got Steph I’m going the easy way out

Uh but part of me definitely wants sabr to shot