Sign5 wrote:Jovic is the future, haven't been this confident in young player's abilities since Wade himself. He's 20 and casually looked like best or at least most offensively impactful player several times over the last multiple weeks.
He can hit the three, he can drive and actually draw fouls or finish, he knows when to cut, he can push the ball up the floor AND finish coast to coast. He can pass/ facilitate and pretty much run the whole lineup. What's most impressive is his defense, he's no longer a net negative on that end as he's at worst an average defender at this point. Most importantly he doesn't shrink in the clutch and keeps an even keel through out.
He's just the definition of an all around impactful player. Exactly like Bam said. He's his own Lebron, Wade, Jimmy, Bam that them simply being on the floor will impact winning in various ways.
This doesn't equate to star. Throughout the years there's been lots of players like this, a few examples through the years would be Toni Kukoc, Hedo Türkoğlu and even more recently Nikola (Threekola) Mirotic who Butler played with and came in 2nd for ROTY. All very good players but not the special player Miami needs to eventually replace Butler with (Chicago screwed him up trying to get him to play center... kind of like Miami wanted to do with Jovic). Now if you were able to give Jovic Herro's mindset maybe but I don't see that in him, I see a good 3rd/4th option and of course, things can change but I wouldn't bet on him being an all-star. I do expect he'll be a very good long-term starter in the NBA.
I see a lot of Mirotic (who Butler played with) in Jovic, hopefully Miami won't push him to put on weight to play center like Chicago did Mirotic... it might be the reason why Butler has said publicly that Jovic is not a center since he saw how it changed Mirotic's game.
