Zach Lowe

It minimizes turnovers.

It just made the game simpler for him.

The sharp one, it's just wildly disappointing that at the end of every season, Chauncey and now Tiago Splitter are like, yeah, we can't trust you.

We're going to bring you off the bench.

We don't trust your defense.

We don't trust your decision-making on offense.

Because there's something in there.

There's obviously explosive, eye-popping talent and athleticism.

But when he dials in and focuses and doesn't take no pass long twos and tries on defense and just when he gets the ball, keeps it moving, there's an interesting player there.

But it just hasn't sustained.

And he's still very young.

But there's a downside in which this contract becomes, I don't want to say dead money, but like a Christian Brown kind of like, ooh, we thought this was an okay idea at the time.

And maybe it's like...

Again, there's going to be ebbs and flows to all of this.

But the thing that they need is obviously shooting.

And any team that has Denny and Scoot in a center like Klingon, who is trying to become a shooter and will be serviceable, I guess.

Like you can't go out and trade.

If you're going to pour in all your assets for like a big move,

and it's not one of the five best players in the league, it can't be a non-shooter.

It can't be another alpha ball handler who's an okay shooter.