I did a lot of this last draft cycle, so maybe I can find it, but small guards are overrepresented in all star games than pretty much any other group when you consider their draft position. I think they fall in the draft because of the obvious issues with small guards, but there are lots of them that turn into good players. Just this year in the all star game we had Dame, Mitchell, Trae, Maxey, Brunson, and Steph. If you're looking for the MVP type guy I think this falls apart. But if you're just looking for a really good player, I think small guard is not a huge deterrent because there are just so many of them that are.
For Jase, I think he's at the intersection of two things that we underrate. One we be the small guard thing I just mentioned. I think the fact that they are an undesirable archetype makes them underrated to some extent. The other thing would be lower usage players and their star potential. When you exclude the obvious elite prospect (this year would be Flagg and Harper), lower usage guys turn into stars at about the same rate as high usage players. It's almost 50/50, but I'm not sure people view it is a 50/50. When you're trying to find a star, I think the ability to scale up is something we should think about more.
I did notice that he was very left hand dominant and yes it does worry me a bit. But I guess I'm a little biased because I saw how successful Mitchell was despite being so right hand dominant.