Any opportunity? The 2 pick has been bad for a stretch of games and not giving the fan base a comfortable feeling about his future. I think you’d have to be pretty half glass full to not think of it as an issue.
He needs to do better
If I was half glass empty, Fox is a star, Buddy/Bogdan are money. We need more now
My feeling is Bagley is going to have a lot of good stretches of games, which he has, and a lot of bad stretches of games, which he has.
He’s not alone. The guy who looked like a “star” tonight has looked like a complete can on other nights and he’s pretty much a starter by default since Grizzlies only have two usable bigs both who start
Where we differ is that I am comfortable with what Bagley has shown that makes me believe he’ll be the power forward that we envision in the future. His second jump, his speed, they way he runs the floor, his post moves and his inside outside potential. He’ll be an open court threat and an iso option. That’s what his good games have shown me. He’s had more of those and I’ve seen more that I like.
My only gripe with Bagley is he should get 6-7 rebounds in his current minutes output every night. I don’t expect the offense to work for him every night as a rookie but there’s really no reason for him to have a 1 rebound game in 20 minutes.
Like I mentioned in another thread, I view Bagley is similar ways I viewed Fox last year and I mentioned it after a Fox stinker last year. I watched Fox and thought there was no way he wasn’t going to be a stud. I feel the same watching Bagley. He’s a very distinctive athlete with unlimited offensive potential that has been flashed a comfortable amount of times for me so far this season though since the Kings are playing .500 ball we don’t want the ups and downs of a rookie in important roles like the one Bagley possesses but he’ll keep getting better. Having turned on many of draft picks and Bagley not being my personal choice on draft night. I don’t feel
I’m being too easy on him. I just don’t think you are giving any credit to the good he’s done this year while ignoring that every rookie be it Ayton, JJJ, Young or even Doncic have had their share of stinkers already. We can’t write off a 19-8 as nothing and then act like 7-1 means everything. He’s just going to have a lot of highs and a lot of lows but I don’t see any inherent flaws that will prevent him from reaching his
potential. Not bad hands, bad footwork, not lack of feel for the game outside of that typical for a rookie, he won’t forevor be scrawny..I just see sky and not that many barriers