T.J. Warren, like most NBA players today, developed his game in a structured AAU environment then went off to college for an abbreviated career before he was good enough to be drafted.
You wouldn't know it from watching him, though. He's got a throwback game that reminds of a previous era when most of the league's great players developed their skills on the playgrounds, learning the individual and improvisational skills that can't be taught — scoring off the dribble, hitting off-balance shots, slithering through cracks in the defense that offered pathways to the rim.
"It's a touch," Pacers coach Nate McMillan says.