Of all of our players, CJ has looked most NBA-like. He's serious but calm and always a threat. Contrast him with, say, Hardaway Jr.: total chucker. He scored a bunch against us but does absolutely nothing but shoot. CJ, even though his shot has been off, has got himself fouled A LOT, and is really working on D, which is encouraging. He's not going to make me forget we drafted him over Antetokounmpo, but lots of teams screwed up like that, and he's making me have hope he'll be a solid contributor. (Somebody said he regressed from last year: bullshit. He's scoring less because he's trying to do more, and isn't the total focus of the offense.)
Will: wild'n'wacky. The ghetto Ginobili. Sometimes you have to let Will be Will. I'm a little worried that he'll always be out of control and thus too much of a risk unless you're desperate (the Nate Robinson effect), but he has made some nifty passes, and we'll always have the alley-oop inbound. If he's surrounded by solid-but-unspectacular players then his value increases and his risk decreases. He'll never lose my love, though.
TRob: he actually depresses me more. There are some players who will make you think they could be really good because they've worked on particular talents, and when they showcase them, you forget the rest. This is the Jerryd Bayless effect. However, they lack that essential ingredient: a sense of where other people are on the court and what that means for what they should be doing. (The Germans no doubt have a word for it.) Will, for all his out-of-controllness, has this. TRob doesn't. He's still surprised by the ball. His mind is a step behind his body. I think he'll always be Travis Outlaw: phenomenal physical gifts, but not really much of a basketball player. (The opposite extreme is someone like Kyle Anderson - not great at much but amazing sense of where everyone is.)
Joel Freeland: definitely part of the rotation, but if only he was a bit larger and could jump a bit higher.
Bobby Brown: If Crabbe's contract wasn't guaranteed, then I'd lay odds we'd offer him a place as third guard. I have a feeling he'll have a job in the NBA next season.
Nobody else is really being given a chance.
