When you're under 22 years old, I think the 4-6 months counts; even four months is the difference between 1st game and 60th game in the NBA. That's a lot of potential experience to have ahead of you as an NBA youngster that other players spent in college.
That's 4-6 months in playing time, that doesn't exactly translate in age. What I do think makes a difference is that Shae was a year behind all of these guys in highschool and he didn't get that full year of next level competition between highschool and the NBA like the rest of his draft class did.
Shae has....Scoot has not. I don't like positions just being given without being earned. Scoot can still play a lot of minutes, but he shouldn't be the starter until he can earn it.
So, Damian Lillard shouldn't have started his rookie year? What about Wilt, Kareem, Magic, Jordan? None of them earned shit before they played a single game.
No where.....anywhere was it about playing a single game. But if you would like to compare Scoot to a rookie Magic who had just won the NCAA Championship and then led the Lakers to the NBA Title while missing Kareem or Wilt (perhaps the greatest athlete to ever play) or Kareem who was perhaps the greatest college player of all time, or Jordon (the Goat) then okay.....feel free. Perhaps a more apples to apples comparison would be in order. The point was that he hadn't earned it because he was just given the spot when there were better players at his position in front of him. I'm not sure that was the case with any of the other players that were listed. Brogdon was a RoY, a 50/40/90 guy last year and a 6M0Y. Scoot played part of 1 Summer League game and didn't look very good in pre-season. Maybe a bit of a difference? Maybe?
Tell me who on that 12-13 team actually had any kind of legit argument to start ahead of Dame? Completely different situation than this squad.
