Any of the second year players are actually out performing Mathurin on their careers.
Larger roles don’t actually means players are playing better. Paolo, Sharpe, Ivey, etc have all had a LOT of time playing as a number 1 option even when they didn’t actually earn it
They’ve all had a lot of games given heavy minutes and a ton of time with the ball in their hands. . Last night Mathurin played great, but he also played a lot more minutes than normal and had a few more on ball reps than normal
Each of the other ones are more involved every game (except Ivey this year only, he’s actually moving down to a third stringer now. ouch).
So don’t always pretend grass is greener and I won’t say who’s going to be the best
But I categorically disagree with everyone ready to throw him under the bus because he’s not featured like most talented 20 year olds
That’s ridiculous. Leage average EFG last year was 54%, Mathurin was at 48.7%. He was an inefficient gunner last year and has made no major improvement in efficiency so far this year (49.5% EFG). These numbers were against mostly opposing backups and/or not being the primary focus of the defensive attention.
He has a long way to go to becoming even a league average scorer. It’s much more likely that he tops out as a bench scorer than him going on to be the first or second option on a good team. Again, there’s nothing wrong with that; good teams need bench scoring.