Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[mvossman]

Not saying Mathurin is great or anything like that, but knocking him because Rick Carlisle couldn't get him developed in a few years shouldn't be a reason for it. Prob his biggest flaw as a coach is developing young players and overplaying vets so that young players don't even get any experience at all. Kidd developed most of the young guys that were here that had some potential. Carlisle very hit or miss, lots of misses in Dallas. Developed Andrew Nembhard, but big whiffs on Jarace Walker & Mathurin in Indy. Carlisle seems better at developing late picks/undrafted guys into clear defined roles like DFS.

Whatever issues Rick might have had developing Mathurin, it was not lack of minutes.  He played 29 minutes a game as a rookie and got 4th in ROY voting.