Atlanta Hawks: Trae Young Named Best Shooter & Playmaker by 2018 Draft Class

In a poll of the 2018 Draft Class on NBA.com, Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks was voted as the best shooter and playmaker in a landslide.

Each year since 2007, NBA.com has undertaken a poll of that year’s draft class in order to gauge what the players drafted think about their peers.

This year, rookies were questioned on topics such as what player would win Rookie of the Year, what player would have the best career, what will be each player’s biggest adjustment and who is each player’s favorite player in the league.

Unsurprisingly, the Atlanta Hawks Trae Young received many accolades from his peers – accruing votes in multiple categories. Young finished as “one of five rookies – Hamidou Diallo, Michael Porter, Collin Sexton and Lonnie Walker are the others – to receive votes on five of the first seven questions this year,” according to John Schuhmann of NBA.com, the writer of the piece.

Though Ice Trae is clearly highly regarded by his peers, especially after an incredible NCCA regular season in which he became the only player in NCAA basketball history to lead the nation in both scoring and assists, this poll helped to showcase just how much his contemporaries think of him.

With a whopping 47 percent of the vote, Young ran away with the “best shooter results.” After stunning feats of long-range sniping such as the video below, this peer grade is well-founded:

Finishing behind Young was his new Atlanta Hawks teammate Kevin Huerter, who pulled in a respectable 13 percent of the vote. Perhaps those snarky “Warriors of the East” comments will come to fruition if each players’ peers can be believed…

Trae Young also won (in a landslide) the “best playmaker” category with 35 percent of the vote – besting Villanova veteran Jalen Brunson by 20 percent and Luka Doncic, the player who Trae was traded for, by 26 percent.

By winning both of those categories, Trae Young became the first player in the history of the Rookie Survey to get the most votes in both the “best shooter” and “best playmaker” categories.

Though this is by no means representative of how the season will play out (as NBA players aren’t always necessarily the best judges of talent), Trae Young’s impressive clout with his contemporaries should give Atlanta Hawks fans one more reason to be excited about the upcoming season.