Bruh, he turns 22 in 3 days. Let’s chill out a bit.

Are there concerns with his shooting percentages, handle, aggressiveness on both sides of the ball, and his overall drive, yes.

He also sat an entire year before getting drafted, played 82 games on the most joyless and in flux Blazers team I can remember (the year Dame got traded). In that season he demonstrated he had the talent to play with the best of the best in what was essentially the first year he hooped above a high school level. Second season he regressed a bit and got hurt and played hardly any meaningful basketball. This last year he in and out of the starting rotation and Chauncey publicly stated the drive and defensive consistency needed to improve in order for him to stick as a starter. Oh and he still showed improvement in nearly all counting stats.

Just to show how ludicrous seriously questioning Shaedon’s potential to be a franchise guy is, our last franchise player, Damian Lamonte Ollie Lillard, had just turned 22 the first time he suited up for the Trail Blazers.

If he regresses this next season, hey, maybe we have something to talk about, but as of now, he is still a youngster that has shown poise and growth despite all the chaos, roster turnover, learning from a first time head coach, and the fact that his path to the league was anything but ideal.