You don’t have to watch a player’s games to know that you don’t label a player a bust when he’s averaging 22/4/7 in what amounts to his second season from a GP perspective. Yeah, the efficiency sucks, the turnovers are worrying. Those create questionmarks about his ceiling, but there are questionmarks in the other direction, particularly what would he do with a better-constructed roster around him.

And I guess it depends on your standard for being a bust as a #1 pick. Generational PG? I don’t see that sort of ceiling in him right now. That was always a really high standard. Repeat allstar and borderline all-NBA level? Yeah, I think that’s still very-much on the table for him.