I strongly disagree with your assessment that he showed a lot of growth and looked awesome before tearing his acl. The sample size was small but I’d argue he was playing worse than he did in 19/20. I was all aboard the hype train that cliff and the team were pushing leading up to the 20/21 but when we actually saw him play his shot was still totally broken from 3, and his midfange numbers were really bad.

39.4% from the field 25% from 3. 45.8 TS%. The unfortunate reality with Markelle is that he can’t be a star without a shot and there aren’t many positive indicators that he can develop a shot. He has 2 good scoring games that season and both came against the wizards who had zero interior defense.