MEDIC wrote:That's great that the team envisioned that an all, but all that matters is actual production. The 3 red flags that I saw when he arrived was 1st step, playmaking and defense.......and that was when he was shooting well.
Well if you have a player who has a great shot, 1st step, playmaking, and defense, we are talking about an all-nba player. That is kind of an unfair bar to put on a guy. Hell, even a guy who is only "good" in those 4 areas is an all-star point guard.
Like I said, his playmaking is just weirdly getting focused on when he has actually been fine there. Fanbases complain about their PG's "pounding the ball" or "hijacking the offence" but that is just the reality of being a main ball handler. Like I have said before - this board has complained about every PG we have ever had for doing that, including Lowry.
People.wanted another Maxey, but they all learned quickly that he is far from that.
Just because IQ is not a borderline all-nba player doesn't mean he is bad or anything. Anyone who expected a 25ppg scorer when we traded for IQ had way to high of expectations from day 1
He isn't dynamic enough as a scorer. He seems very 1 dimensional to me..He doesn't have enough elite skills.
I mean I don't really see that. Great shooter. Great protector of the ball. Decent defensively (despite what everyone thinks, it is very hard to keep guys in front of you in this league). And he also has a solid floater and finishes pretty decent for a PG.
He is not a star, but he also isn't paid to be a star either. $32.5M in this day and age is not a lot. He is paid the same as the Jerami Grants, Jordan Pooles, Jalen Johnson, Andrew Wiggins, Hartensteins, etc. of the league. Then there is obviously guys like Brunson (huge underpay), Sengun (rookie max underpay), Herro (expires next year), etc. By the time year 5 comes around the guy is gonna be paid the equivalent of like $20M today.
I just think guys got their expectations way to high from the get go.
