Just what the title says. If he has the ability to do it, we’ll see it within the first third or half of the season. He will lead the team to wins and consistently put up good performances for long stretches. Honestly if I don’t see a stretch of 10-15 consistently good games from him that translates to roughly .500 ball in the first half of the season then I might be ready to move on. That means scoring efficiently with at least average defense and some playmaking that leads the team to a decently long stretch of around .500 basketball.
Obviously this is going to come across as an overreaction given his performance last night. But if he remains inconsistent with a scoring burst every three or four games, then I just don’t see him taking the step he needs to keep pace with other young stars who will be competing for championships in their prime.
Right exactly, year three booker took a big jump, which if you look historically especially in this decade year three is the key year for guys to blossom into stars. If they cant make that leap then its most likely they are who they are and you cant expect any more giant leaps. Will note that year three booker also dealt with injury mid and late in year three and in all likelihood would of been even better if he got to his 70 game mark.
Personally I hate that greens game to game variance has such a low floor, and he hasn’t shown a game to game variance ceiling as high as booker had in his first three years, but we do have to give JG more time.
Another thing to note is bookers talent around him was way less than what JG has rn. We’re talking josh jackson, drafan bender, bledsoe, Marquese Chriss, and rockets legend danuel house. Booker was able to work with it