You mentioned shooting percentage + playoffs + consistency.
So I think that stat was relevant. After all, any playoff statistic could be waved off as "small sample size" if we want.
That is a solid number of shots too, it's not like 1 game or even 3. Obviously he was just in a bit of a funk, as his regular season numbers were nice. To be a top dog team though, we are going to probably need more Pippen then McCants.
I'm fairly confident that you could find 42 shot samples in just about any elite shooter's season where they have that low of a percentage, it's just not that many shots in the grand scheme of it all.
And y'all acting like he had some kind of awful drop off in the PS. He didn't, 17.6 ppg: 48% on midrange and 67% at the rim all while playing great defense - at time game breaking defense.
The Spurs series was disappointing for sure, but the whole team was kinda dysfunctional in hindsight.
Give him so real usage and run sets with him running PnR, give him a chance at volume scoring and I'm absolutely certain he wont disappoint. Can he rise to all star or better levels, and be legit number 2? I don't know but it's not outside the realm of possibility, not by a long shot
