After his disaster class yesterday, I’ve seen a lot of reactionary comments that he’s not the guy or will never be the guy. But all I’m trying to say is that this is basically his SECOND year. How was Ant in his second year? How is Paolo? And who were their teammates and how much spacing did they get compared to Cade now?
Image Cade on the Magic right now instead of Paolo who has Franz, Suggs, Fultz on the side. Look at Paolo’s first 4 games this year and how much spacing he gets yet he still had those stats. Now imagine if Cade had Kat or Gobert and actual vets who can score like Ant has. Ant is currently making his massive leap in his FOURTH year. He doesn’t have teammates like Hayes, Stew, etc.
Looking at Cade’s games this years, I would honestly say that he’s doing FINE for being his second year only with the team he has. He’s exhausted forced to play 38-40 minutes a night. We’re overreacting because we’ve been losing for years and since Cade has been out for a year we FORGOT that this is his second year. Also, having 3+ crucial teammates out for several of his games doesn’t help either.
Isn’t this Chet’s first season by your reasoning? Dude missed out an entire season and is now arguably balling like a 50/40/90 guy. But when it comes to Cade we need to keep making excuses right?
Chet joined a play-in team that’s only missing piece was a starting Center.
It’d be like if Cade joined the Timberwolves, they are not even remotely in a similar situation.