Let me preface this by saying I love Garland and think he’s still one of the better guards in the league but I’m not crazy about his playstyle the last at the moment. There was a stretch two years ago before Mitchell was year where I it felt like we had the next Steve Nash and we had a perennial 20 and 10 point guard. But since Mitchell has came here, he’s almost changed his style from a true PG to someone who plays like Mitchell? It seems like he has a score first mentality right now which makes him and Mitchell kind of redundant. In 2021, he average almost 9 APG. Since then, it’s been decreasing. I understand that sometimes he has to play that way but it seems like it’s been going on since last year as well. Am I just crazy, or does it seem like his play style has changed a bit?
Garland just hasn’t even been aggressive. I’m afraid of having a lead guard whose default setting is to play passive. That’s a fine mentality if you’re Steve nash. But they need garland to score more and he’s not doing it.
To your point, he’s also not facilitating as well as he’s capable of