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Jrue Holiday deserves to be an NBA All-Star this season

By Thomas J. Brown

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Jrue Holiday #21 of the Milwaukee Bucks in action against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on November 10, 2021 in New York City. The Bucks defeated the Knicks 112-100. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: (NEW YORK DAILIES OUT) Jrue Holiday #21 of the Milwaukee Bucks in action against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on November 10, 2021 in New York City. The Bucks defeated the Knicks 112-100. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) /
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Jrue Holiday, Milwaukee Bucks, NBA All-Star
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – DECEMBER 17: Jrue Holiday #21 of the Milwaukee Bucks shoots over Jonas Valanciunas #17 of the New Orleans Pelicans during a the first quarter of a NBA game at Smoothie King Center on December 17, 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jrue Holiday, Milwaukee Bucks, NBA All-Star. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images) /

Jrue Holiday deserves to be an NBA All-Star this season: High basketball IQ

The exciting potential of Lamelo Ball and the highlight reel dunks of Miles Bridges have caused the NBA community to once again pay attention to the Charlotte Hornets. This has inevitably inspired nostalgia about the early ’90s when the team featured Larry Johnson, Alonzo Mourning, Dell Curry, and Muggsy Bogues.

Part of the reason the team was able to overachieve and give the veteran New York Knicks a scare in the playoffs was the way Bogues took care of the basketball. In fact, he holds the single-season record for highest assist-to-turnover ratio, averaging 10.7 assists against 1.8 turnovers in the 1990 season, Proving again that a good point guard is worth his weight in gold. The same can be said of Jrue Holiday this year.

When Holiday made the Eastern Conference All-Star team in 2013, he did so while averaging 3.7 turnovers per game. This season, while putting up similar scoring and assists numbers, Holiday has trimmed his turnovers to 2.6 per game.

Only a seasoned veteran who has learned to see the play before it unfolds could equal his productivity while simultaneously decreasing his mistakes. Jrue Holiday has joined that club.

Last year’s run to an NBA championship, and his subsequent involvement on Team USA’s gold-medal-winning team, certainly played a role in Holiday’s improved play this season.

When asked about the NBA playoffs, legendary San Antonio Spurs point guard, Tony Parker, once said: “… if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.”

Watching Jrue Holiday play this season, it is evident that Parker’s words are true. Milwaukee’s point guard is playing like a true extension of the coach on the floor.

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