“His defense has improved, it’s night and day from when he came in [as a rookie],” Stevens said before the game. “Just like in our situation with all our bigs, there’s a lot of competition back there as far as playing time goes. He’s doing a good job. He’s progressing the right way, getting stronger, working on his ball-handling. He works on his shooting. Defensively, just systematically, the game has slowed down quite a bit for him.”
[…] “I think the biggest thing is you look at [Young’s] youth and you remember he’s a college junior if he was still in college but a college sophomore age-wise,” Stevens said.