Giddey established himself as a very good young player right away after being drafted 6th overall in 2021. He started every regular season game he played for the Thunder during the first three seasons of his career. However, some of his weaknesses became more glaring in the playoffs, and he got dropped from the starting lineup near the end of the Thunder's 2024 playoff run. He was then traded to Chicago for Alex Caruso. Giddey's passing is his best skill. He can make just about every pass in the book. He'll make deep hit-aheads in transition, can whip passes around the court off live dribbles with either hand, find shooters off drives, make pinpoint passes to cutters, and he's also a great inbounds passer. His size at 6'8" gives him the ability to see over defenses and find the right angles. Giddey also has great touch and accuracy. He turns it over too much, but you'll generally be okay with that given how often is risky passes work out. From a scoring perspective, Giddey is effective from floater range, but hasn't really been efficient anywhere else on the court. He has solid size for a wing, but doesn't have a ton of explosiveness and has been a below-average finisher at the rim. The outside shooting is the biggest problem though. He has only hit 31% of his 3s on very low volume on just over three attempts per game. We saw in the playoffs that defenses just stopped guarding him, and it clogged the Thunder's offense. If he is essentially a non-threat off the ball, that really affects the level of impact he can have offensively. Defensively, Giddey struggles, and this is another area that becomes more prominant in the playoffs when teams get more judicious in who they attack. He doesn't move his feet well laterally, can get caught playing upright, and beaten off the dribble. He also doesn't put a ton of effort in defensively, and has overall low intensity on that end. Giddey has decent size to guard multiple positions, but isn't very long or disruptive. He does rebound really well on both ends of the ball, making him a legitimate triple double threat. Giddey will still only be 22 years old as a free agent in 2025. We saw some of his warts in the playoffs, but he can still be a very effective player. The worries just come down to if the jump shot will ever come around, or if he will have a Ben Simmons style game that never really develops. Simmons has dealt with serious health issues, so maybe it's not the best comparison, but they have similar weaknesses. Giddey isn't an elite ball-handler, and with his scoring issues, it's hard to make him your primary ball-handler, because good teams will have a better option there (like the Thunder did with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander). And if Giddey is going to be effective as a secondary ball-handler, he needs to be more of a threat off the ball.