It's a bummer, because I was hoping I was just being too hard on him and someone more connected would have a more favorable outlook.

Overall, I’ve seen enough that I don’t think Keyonte George can be successful as a ball-in-hand point guard. He’s too far away there. The turnovers alone probably mean he can’t have the ball in his hands this much. But it’s not just that: he’s slow to set up an offense, and doesn’t seem to inspire terrific play from his teammates. In his defense, it’s not something he’d ever been in his career before getting to the Jazz.

The problem is that pushing him to the two-guard is difficult, too, given his lack of impact when the ball isn’t in his hands; there’s no defensive impact, no rebounding impact. He does have catch-and-shoot ability, but the other parts of basketball have yet to be strengths. And if you are going to be a shooting-only shooting guard in a starting lineup... you have to be really good at shooting. J.J. Redick good.

The early obvious Jazz comparison is Trey Burke, who also had a tremendously poor second year on his way out of the NBA.

He adds this, regarding Burke:

Burke did find his way back into the league for a couple of years, though, as a bench spot up shooter on a couple of Luka Doncic Dallas teams. I think that’s a possible outcome for this level of George — a point guard who just takes the open threes and makes them on a team with a primary ball handler at another position.

Even then, though, Burke was a replacement-level guy. Soon enough, the Mavs replaced him.

I think the only way he is the starting point guard of the next good Jazz team is if the primary ball-handler is a player at a different position (Demin?). But maybe he'll surprise us and learn how to handle ball pressure. Maybe he can try the trick with the chairs in the church hallway.