pepe1991 wrote:If only Bacon is 22, he would have been compared with Paul George

You're being snarky, but development does happen even if it's not at the all-star level.
You have this... I'll call it interesting... mindset where if a guy doesn't seem like he's going to become an all-star caliber player, then he doesn't matter.
And like that's fine in the grand scheme of things, but there's also 480 guys in the league at a given time and only 24 make the all-star team each year.
No team in the league has a rotation full of all-stars. Obviously everybody wants as many all-star caliber players as they can get, but teams still need the guys who aren't at that level to still improve and ultimately become the best version of themselves even if they're role players because 90% of the league aren't all-stars anyway.
If Bacon was having the year he's having now as a 20 year old rookie, then there would obviously be a lot more optimism that he'd be able to improve upon his weaknesses over time. Not every player does improve on their weaknesses, but the younger you are the more time and runway you have to do so.
But as a two-year college and now four-year NBA guy, you pretty much know what you have in Bacon and it obviously isn't good enough.
RJ Hampton since joining the Magic has been statistically pretty comparable to Bacon. But Bacon is considered a complete scrub and Hampton is considered someone with upside. Why? Because that six year age gap is quite massive from a developmental perspective.