06-11-2022, 10:31 PM
(06-11-2022, 10:10 PM)F Gump Wrote: I'm not ready to say the answer can't be Green or Ntilikina. After the 2021 playoffs, and after 3 seasons of development, Brunson was a backup who wasn't playoff-playable. After another year of development, he's not the same player.
Green has had 2 years (and the first, with all the covid chaos limiting things) and he grew a lot this past season. It's premature to think he's hit his ceiling. The same with Franky, who has only had one season away from the NY quagmire and is already starting to show some positive signs.
If one of those two can step up, all the better!