MirORich
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You just described his worst games and tonight’s game without Mitchell on the court drawing a ton of attention as well. And that does place him in the level below true 1A superstar/star as those guys need to be able to bring their best at all times(or at least 8-9 out of every 10 games)It's easy to point to the low number of turnovers or good 3pt shooting and give him a pass, my issues are as follows
1) Zero ability to finish at the rim
2) Zero ability to draw FTs
3) Passes that result in a difficult shot in traffic
4) Bad passes at big guys feet
5) Bad passes that are corralled by a teammate only to be put in a bad position
6) Inability to handle a double team
7) Inability to work within tight spaces
8) Inability to truly cause a defense to collapse on you
9) Beat his man off the dribble and not pull up pr fade, but get to the hoop
I could to on but I'm dealing with an infant who won't sleep. When you factor all of these things in, how much better is Darius Garland today than he was two years ago? He gets easily rattled and falls back on bad habits. To me, Darius looks like a guy who knows enough about basketball to be good, but not enough to be better. I personally do not think he's spends any time in the gym outside of required workout times. He went from an up and coming PG people were excited about to being passed up by 10-15 young guards.
Hes expendable. Let's just hope people don't realize that before we can move him.
He has had many games against high level opponents where many of those issues are far less pronounced or not there at all.
I’m saying this only in his defense as an individual player, not in how he stacks up against Mitchell who is the clear better player and player to do everything possible to build around.
I have plenty of fun Garland trade ideas for if/once Mitchell re-signs. Until that happens though, I would not call him expendable.