Snakebites wrote:buzzkilloton wrote:Snakebites wrote:It’s similar in that Cade probably isn’t worth a max at this stage but we have no choice but to do it anyway.
I agree Cade is better than Drummond. The reasons he’s not worth it are completely different.
It’s also fair to say his impact on winning is only better than Dre’s IF he’s healthy. And that’s proving to be a massive IF.
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I’m concerned both by the number of games he misses and how much playing at less than 100 percent seems to impact his level of play.
I tried to find the article that has some Holiday quotes from his next season coming back from this surgery. I posted in the Cade injury thread last year but I dont want to search that hard.
Yeah its pretty obv when hes not at 100% hes no where near the same player. He came into the season rusty off the injury and struggled then he started playing well. Then injury report into struggles to being shut down. Comes back healthy after ASB plays the best ball we've seen from him and then hits the injury report and is back to being bad into shut down again.
Its still important that we can see when hes healthy hes capable of being a really good player. Hes a better player today then his rookie year hes a sharp player that will continue to improve. Like I have no doubts that Cade is going to be a above average 3pt shooter in the future. His FT% has always been good he was a good shooter in college I think next season healthy he breaks into that 38%+ range. The playmaking has stepped up alot and when we get a spaced floor with shooters hes going to be even better.