The preseason Mountain West Newcomer of the Year has gone from averaging 18.7 points in two years at Seattle U to just 10.1 at San Diego State
In Darrion Trammell’s final game at Seattle University last season, in the WAC tournament against Abilene Christian, he scored 39 points.
Matt Bradley has emerged from an early-season slump and on Monday was named Mountain West player of the week after averaging 17.5 points in two games on 72.2-percent shooting. Keshad Johnson is playing the best basketball of his career. Nathan Mensah is coming off a double-double. Adam Seiko is shooting 54.5 percent on 3s. Jaedon LeDee has recaptured his tantalizing early-season form. Lamont Butler has established himself as a perimeter threat.
If he is frustrated, he hasn’t shown it in his body language at practice or games, or in his answers to the obligatory questions about the adjustment to a new league, new arenas, new teammates, new program, new philosophy. Or even after beingTrammell openly admits he expected at least some of this. When he met with Dutcher and his staff last spring in Seattle shortly after entering the transfer portal, he said all he cared about was winning, not individual stats.
There’s enough trust that he is SDSU’s minutes leader, just as he was at Seattle, but the difference is he’s playing 27.5 per game instead of 34.4. When you extrapolate his statistics over 40 minutes, the drop from last season isn’t as pronounced: 20.7 points to 14.6, 15.5 shots to 12.8, 6.0 assists to 5.4.
The problem, of course, is the shot hasn’t been falling. He is just 5 of 33 behind the arc over the last nine games. Even his free throw shooting is off, going from 84 percent at Seattle to 68.8 in conference games at SDSU. The result is a feast or famine version of Trammell. He averages 10.1 points but rarely does he actually produce that. Only three times in 25 games has he scored within two points of his average. In the others, he’s either scored over 12 or under eight.
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