If New York’s lottery odds have you worried, take a look down the line and think deeply about what changing your team’s long term trajectory looks like. It certainly involves taking a huge chunk of clay and carefully molding a young star into something statuesque. Rookies just have a way of needing time. Even the kids that hit the ground running need time to iron out their kinks and some of them fizzle out after promising starts.
One kid with gobs of potential is Iowa State Cyclones’ freshman, Talen Horton-Tucker. The youngest college player in the draft, Horton-Tucker is a Chicago native that starred at Simeon Career Academy.