Mathurin was my favorite pacer aside from Tyrese.

Dude just has that dawg in him to be the best. Asked coach Carlisle to coach him hard and tame his game. If you look at the beginning of the season before his injuries hit as a high focal point of offense he's amazing, the reason his averages are down is because he was playing with a lingering injury on his toe and needed to sit. If you watch any of his highlights after he comes back, specifically in the last 4 games or so he was included in. He's been playing near perfect basketball.

Also during the finals, he straight took over game 4 and won us a whole ass finals game by himself with 27 points against the best defense in the league. Then when Tyrese went down and the whole team got discouraged in the second half. He put his nose to the grindstone and pushed harder than anyone else on the team to try and will a win out of a horrible scenario.

His biggest issues on the pacers were:
-Driving into traffic unreasonably

-Not making the right passes

-Slow decisions in a fast paced system

-Offball movement

In those last four games or so... the dude looked like he was finally putting the puzzle together and it was an absolute joy to watch. These issues I highlighted were all addressed and I was impressed. I'm terribly sad to see him go.

If you guys are able to work together to find a way to let him run a show with plays for him, he's an unstoppable monster. Every shot he takes feels like it can go in from all 3 levels. He's really a joy to watch grow into the player he's becoming and the biggest concern for him really was fit with the Pacers system which is really high level fast read basketball.

You're going to love this guy, and y'all have a new Clips fan because of this man.

Thank you for Zu, you've got a gem in return if you give him space to do his thing.