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