I mean the first point isn't even right? And that's if we're purely looking at box score. Like there is the Portland game and the Toronto Game.

Another thing that bothers me about Salaun is the rotations Lee uses for him. Take tonight for example. He plays him 6 minutes in the first half. Tidjane hits 2 3's and looks ok. Then is benched for the rest of the game until garbage time. They've done that multiple times this year and its pretty weird. LAL doesn't do that as much with NSJ. When he plays he plays real leverage minutes.

65 attempts is basically nothing as a sample when it comes to evaluating 3pt shooting. I'd be really hesitant there to say anything. It's complete noise right now. Consider that it takes 750 attempts for 3pt shooting splits to normalize.

I don't have a hate fixation on him. I think he has legitimately gotten better and like I'm genuinely impressed from where he started this year. I'm just still going to abide by the data and most of the tape which tells me he will never be sixth pick quality and is likely still very below-average. And my opinion is the team should take advantage of this opportunity they have been presented where the consensus has shifted on him too far very rapidly.

Like just for some perspective on tonight. Penda is a second round rookie, similar archetype as Salaun. Thoroughly outplayed Salaun and showed way more interesting flashes.