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

  • KlumberBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You wouldn’t have had the balls to post this 24 hours ago. That demonstrates that this is a subjective topic.

    Mathurin is on a journey, as are the others. There’s times when a player looks awesome for the first two/three years and becomes a cheesecake after, other times they take 3 years to develop into a role player and another 3 to become a dominant player (Jalen Smith, Aaron Nesmith, Walker?)

    So frankly, it is all irrelevant who’s doing better than who at this point. Once these guys mature (end of year 4) is when we will know if Mathurin is a stud or dud in this draft class.

    For me, saying that he is better than Banchero or Sharpe is just demonstrating you don’t really understand what you’re saying.