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What Resolves First?

  • Collin Sexton's Restricted Free Agency

    Votes: 19 38.8%

  • Baker Mayfield's Tenure with the Browns

    Votes: 30 61.2%
  • Total voters
    49
  • Poll closed .
It's just one game but Sexton would have had a couple more assists last night if Love had been hitting his 3s. Collin set him up nicely a number of times but Kevin only hit 2 of 9.
 
For all those complaining about Collin's assist numbers -- have you actually watched any games and seen the Cavaliers play? John Stockton would have trouble piling up assists with the likes of Clarkson, Knight, "Hands of Stone" Zizic, Chrisssssssss, Sauce Castillo and Nwaba.

Can't get assists with Love when he's working the ball inside like he's been doing.

Zizic gets passes from Sexton and then misses a layup.

On the Dallas feed last night they brought up an interesting stat -- Collin Sexton is the FIRST Cavalier rookie to score 20 points or more for five consecutive games: 27, 28, 26, 23, 28.

That's right -- Our #1 overall picks Austin Carr (60 pts in NCAA tournament game), Brad Daugherty (averaged 20 ppg for Dean Smith -- Jordan didn't), LeBron James and Kyrie Irving didn't score 20 ppg five games in a row their rookie seasons.

Here's a look at Collin last five games:

MPG FGA FGM 3PA 3PM FTA FTM REB AST TO PTS
34.42 11 17 3 5 2 2 0 6 7 27
36.15 10 18 4 7 4 4 4 5 0 28
35.24 11 20 4 7 0 0 2 1 0 26
38.49 7 16 2 7 7 8 4 3 4 23
38.22 10 17 7 7 4 5 3 4 0 31

36.42 9.8 17.6 4.0 6.6 3.4 3.8 2.6 3.8 2.2 27.0
55.7% 60.6% 89.5%

He's put these numbers up late in the season on an injury-depleted team.

The last five games were: At Miami, Toronto, At Philly, At Orlando, At Dallas. Four of five road games. The last four games were over six days. And he's a rookie whose already played twice as many games as he's every played in a season.

Now I realize a lot of people -- even on RCF -- are not watching the games. It's a shame, because this kid is worth watching. These late season games are a hell of a lot more important for the Cavaliers than last season's games at this point -- because the regular season didn't matter with the playoffs approaching. This kid's development DOES matter.

All last season I read people bitching about how Lue "needs to play the kids" and "we want to see the kids play." Well, when you do that, you lose. But that's ok -- we weren't going anywhere this season anyway. We'll get a high draft lottery position. Collin's development, though, has been a VERY pleasant surprise.

Now I know he has major defensive issues and he needs to improve his PG skills (I know, I've actually been watching games). But he HAS been doing better. He had a couple of hi TO games in the last five (7 and 4) -- but in three games he had ZERO turnovers. Five of the last nine games have been ZERO turnovers for him. Pretty damn good for a rookie who's not exactly Jason Kidd.

The people denigrating this kid don't bother me anymore. Night after night I hear the other team's commentators praising Collin. He damn near beat Philly (and Brett Brown had him at the TOP of his pregame briefing). Trashing this kid at this point is just asinine. He is an elite scorer already. That, alone, will keep him in the NBA -- and he's just getting started.

Cavaliers drafted a good one at #8.
 
Collin is on his way to ROTM for March after finishing third in February and will lock up the NBA First Team All Rookie spot by then. Pretty good for a bust who can’t pass, shoot, score and in general can’t play according to JR Smith.

Imagine how much hype Sexton would’ve had playing on Knicks. Shame we came off a historic 4 year run where the fan base is generally just down on the team to even care. I hope he’s the catalyst along with Cedi, who start us off on a proper rebuild. I think coming away with RJ Barrett and BPA with the Rockets pick will have us going in that direction.
 
LeeBuckeye said:
Collin is on his way to ROTM for March after finishing third in February and will lock up the NBA First Team All Rookie spot by then. Pretty good for a bust who can’t pass, shoot, score and in general can’t play according to JR Smith.

Imagine how much hype Sexton would’ve had playing on Knicks. Shame we came off a historic 4 year run where the fan base is generally just down on the team to even care. I hope he’s the catalyst along with Cedi, who start us off on a proper rebuild. I think coming away with RJ Barrett and BPA with the Rockets pick will have us going in that direction.
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He might get consideration for Player of the Week. He's had a hell of a week.

The Knicks would love to have him. He would give their fans something to cheer and talk about.
 
Listen, if he has truly turned a corner and. Is good for at least 15+ pts a night (I know he’s on a 20+ pt tear), the Cavs found themselves an excellent player at #8.
He can go off and will go off for 30+ next year. His assist #s will improve as the talent around him improves. He’s going to get a running mate in this draft. Dan will continue to dump money in this team.
Koby is doing his job. Hitting on back to back pick and maybe at 25 will be huge.
 
I did some maths on a reddit thread.

Pre All-Star:
31% of his attempts were < 5 ft, shooting 49.2%
19% of attempts were three-pointers
43% of his attempts were two-pointers between 10 and 24 feet
68% of his shots from 20-24 feet were two pointers (!)


Post All-Star:
37% of his attempts are < 5ft, shooting at 55.2%
36% of his attempts are three-pointers
15% of his attempts are two-pointers between 10 and 24 feet
12% of his shots from 20-24 feet are two-pointers
 
chuck0609 said:
Listen, if he has truly turned a corner and. Is good for at least 15+ pts a night (I know he’s on a 20+ pt tear), the Cavs found themselves an excellent player at #8.
He can go off and will go off for 30+ next year. His assist #s will improve as the talent around him improves. He’s going to get a running mate in this draft. Dan will continue to dump money in this team.
Koby is doing his job. Hitting on back to back pick and maybe at 25 will be huge.
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Honestly, I don’t see how he isn’t consistently a scorer going forward. He’s already learned how to score 10-12 just by blowing by guys. Add in his improved 3 shooting and the fact he’s finishing better every week, and being a consistent scorer looks like the one thing you can say he’s going to be imo.
 
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