MrBigShot wrote:Chanel Bomber wrote:He reminds me a lot of Evan Turner but with a higher usage.
Talented, but he plays too slow and scores too inefficiently for the NBA.
His best role on a winning team will likely be as a bench player or a jack-of-all-trades 4th or 5th option.
If Detroit can get a top 10 pick for him, they have to trade him.
One thing for sure, you don't worry about who can fit with him or not. He should be irrelevant in the team building process. If anything, he should be expected to be able to fit around other players because that's what will be expected of him in a not-so-distant future.
He might not pan out but Cade is much, much more talented than Evan turner. You are vastly under selling him penciling him as a 4th or 5th option. When Cade is at his best he looks like a legitimate superstar, when Turner was at his best he looked like a fringe all star maybe.
Turner was really talented as well.
Cade has a stronger ability to shot create and their profiles are slightly different but the main difference is opportunity.
The Sixers were trying to compete and win games during Turner's rookie season (they won 41 games and made the playoffs). They simply didn't give Turner the usage that Cade has been given. Detroit made Cade the focal point, which has enabled him to have these odd performances where everything clicks and he looks like a rising star on a night. But most NBA players can do that if given the green light for an extended period. What separates them is consistency.
I guess we will see. I just hope Detroit aren't wasting their time here. My suspicion is that Detroit won't win much with him as a featured guy, and then getting him to accept a lesser role will prove difficult (after putting him on a franchise pedestal), so he will eventually get traded and find his niche in a lesser role for a different team. Could be completely wrong though, but it has happened with a lot of guys.
