These are often young players with potential or show flashes and when they don’t play well people give them a pass. Or could be a very well liked player that people don’t feel like hating on. Or they’re on a small market team so no one pays attention unless the player drops 40
SGA #1 and Hali #2. SGA has walked his way into first team all-NBA without half the criticism that dogged Mitchell, Booker, etc, and he probably deserves it but gets very little blowback.