fendilim wrote:Knightro wrote:basketballRob wrote:He was in a limited role because he was a young rookie on a team trying to win. Cason Wallace got a bigger role as backup guard for the entire season on a teamtryingto win. He averaged 3.4 assists per 100 compared to 3.9 for Black.
Again... apples and oranges man.
The Thunder had the No. 3 ranked offense in the entire NBA. They truly didn't need Wallace to come in and do anything on offense except catch-and-shoot.
Wallace averaged just 11.9 touches per game in the front court with an average time of possession of just 0.9.
The Magic had a bad offense that severely lacked playmaking and passing, yet they couldn't get the #6 overall pick involved in any sort of playmaking whatsoever?
They opted to use him as a pure 3&D player instead of even *attempting* to see if some of his playmaking skills could positively impact the offense?
And now what are we going to see out of Black in year 2? Because if the idea is that he is going to have this fleshed out ability to make plays for others that he's been developing in secret and not go through the normal inexperienced player struggles that he *should* have gone through this year, but didn't... I dunno about all that.
There are certain skills you can develop and improve with a relentless work ethic in the summer with a trainer.
Playmaking is not one of those skills. You develop it by actually using it in real basketball games.
Fwiw, Cason Wallace has a potential assist stat of 2.5
AB has 2.8.
And AB is playing for one the worst offensive team in the league.
If you watched you’d know he wasn’t playing…not even for one of the worst offensive teams in the league