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Much worse, unless you hypothesize that Trae become a player we've only seen in short spurts in his entire career: a guy who is locked in on defense and plays hard after he passes the ball.
Trae is really really good with the ball in his hands. He, for his career, has been largely mediocre when it's not in his hands, on both sides of the floor.
With Jokic you don't really want the ball in Trae's hands.
Lets look at how dame performs without the ball first. Dame hasnt done it in portland also.
This is a nonsensical comparison.
Dame is going to have the ball primarily in Milwaukee because what you want is him ball handling in the pick and roll with Giannis.
Murray does not primarily have the ball most of the time in the pick and roll with Jokic. Sure they do it some, but they run a ton of inverted pick and rolls and dribble-hand-offs because the ball is so effective in Jokic's hands..
Meanwhile the biggest flaw in Giannis' game is probably that he wants to handle the ball a ton up top but he's not actually that good at it.