In his second year, Paolo Napoleon James Banchero has exploded like dynamite. We are in an age of inflated superstar statistics, so perhaps a stat line of 23/7/5 on 47/37/71 percent shooting splits doesn’t immediately move you. However, only two players in the modern era
Orlando's an interesting young team -- they've already got a lot of good pieces in place, but IMO if they're going to get better they need two things. One is obvious; they need to get at least one real consistent knock-down shooter in the backcourt to take some pressure off of Banchero and Franz Wagner. The other is, they need to figure out who their center is going to be and if he's currently even on their roster. My opinion is that he's probably not; all three of the ones they have either have serious holes in their games or, in Wendell Carter Jr.'s case, is just kind of middling as a player.
Orlando's an interesting young team -- they've already got a lot of good pieces in place, but IMO if they're going to get better they need two things. One is obvious; they need to get at least one real consistent knock-down shooter in the backcourt to take some pressure off of Banchero and Franz Wagner. The other is, they need to figure out who their center is going to be and if he's currently even on their roster. My opinion is that he's probably not; all three of the ones they have either have serious holes in their games or, in Wendell Carter Jr.'s case, is just kind of middling as a player.