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Originally Posted by Onlydo2days
Yeah, I don't think he's an all-star caliber player. Never said he wasn't good.
He had a good year in an ideal role for him. I mean, I'm not shocked he is playing terrible, are you? He's been horrible on offense and if he was just anything close to mediocre this series is over.
If that's the case, is he an all-star?
How many of their games have you watched this year? Not trying to be a smart ass, but the Pacers are about as far from most people's radar as possible.
He's played really well this year. With around 5 RS games left he had the second highest with him/without him differential of any player on the year. Obviously that's not all him, but he's been great this year on both ends.
Those stats are what they are. The Pacers were supposed to win 20-30 games and Bojan was supposed to be the scorer if Turner wasn't. They won 48 games and held serve against every top team (save for HOU...).
I can't explain away his slump now except to say he picked an awful time to suck for 4 games. Hard to call 4 games regression when he's had 83 games of better production and like I said, he's improved his shooting each and every year he's been in the league.
Dude made a lot of changes this offseason, and other than shooting 25% or so in the last 4 games, I don't see a ton of reason to doubt that helped.