3 out of 13 and 4 out of 17! The most rookie All-Star in the playoffs, why do you get a top salary of 193 million

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2024-05-16 18:02Posted in Henan Sports Creator

With the playoffs in full swing, the championship situation of each team this year is becoming clearer, and those teams that can still stay in the playoffs now naturally have stronger stars. For example, Jokic of the Nuggets, who has won MVP 3 times in the past 4 years, has played a dominant level in the playoffs this year, and Gobert, a 4-time DPOY, was also beaten by him.

There is also Brunson, who still occupies the position of the playoff scoring champion, he can average 33.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, and under the use of Thibodeau's "madness", Brunson repaid the team's trust and reuse with a performance that completely exceeded expectations. It is worth mentioning that Brunson's annual salary is only 27.73 million, which is only ranked 49th in the league this season, but now it seems that his real level has fully reached the top five in the league.

It is undeniable that although they were eliminated like the Lakers and the 76ers, the stars of the house also gave very good performances, but there are still some teams that have to bear the blame for the loss. For example, the Cavaliers who lost to the Celtics, Mitchell and Allen were both affected by injuries, and they played 3 games and 1 game in this series, and Garland, compared to Mitchell and Allen, he was purely stretched.

In the 2021-2022 season, the 21-year-old Garland averaged 21.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 8.6 assists and 1.3 steals per game in the regular season, and finally he was selected as an All-Star for the first time. But in the past two years, Garland has not only not improved, but has a visible regression, he averaged 18 points, 2.7 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game in the regular season, while the offensive efficiency has also declined significantly.

Garland, who played average in the regular season, came to the playoffs with more confrontation intensity, and his level was downgraded again without suspense. In the 12 games he played for the Cavaliers, Garland averaged only 15.7 points, 3.6 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 2.3 turnovers per game, shooting 42.7% from the field and 35.2% from three-point range.

In the first four games of the first round, Garland's personal performance was 14 points, 8 assists and 5 turnovers, 15 points, 4 assists and 4 turnovers, 5 points, 6 assists and 1 turnover, 14 points, 6 assists and 2 turnovers, but as long as he played a little better, the Cavaliers had a chance to sweep the Magic.

After the G5 and G6 states picked up, fans thought Garland had finally entered the playoffs, but looking back, he played a 3-of-13 performance in the life-and-death battle of the seventh, and Garland only got 12 points and 4 assists, in addition to 3 turnovers, if he hadn't gotten the most 6 free throws in a single game in the entire playoffs, his score would not have been double-doubled.

After seeing Garland's overall performance against the Magic, fans are even more afraid to expect him to explode against the Celtics in the second round, which is indeed the case, and it will not be too disappointed to lower expectations and wait until he is eliminated now. In these five games, Garland only G4 scored more than 20 points, and in that game he scored 30 points on 27 shots, which was also his best game in the entire playoffs, but unfortunately it still did not help the team win the game.

In the last playoff game, Mitchell, Allen, and LeVert on the Cavaliers' side did not play, but Garland, as the star of the house, had better play decently even if he lost. But apparently Garland's strength simply did not allow it, and under the pressure he handed in a miserable answer, he "slashed" 11 points on 4-of-17 shooting in the game, and he was not as good as the third-year rookie Mobley, who also scored 33 points this time, which was also his best performance in the playoffs.

Now that the Cavaliers' season is over, it's time for them to rethink whether they want to continue to play with the backcourt combination of Mitchell and Garland as the core. In the past two seasons, the Cavaliers have made a first-round tour and a second-round tour, which is obviously far from their goal of competing for a championship. On top of that, two years later, Mitchell and Garland still haven't developed a good chemistry, as the Cavaliers are likely to choose to send one of them away in the offseason.

Judging from the current performance, there is only one reason why the Cavaliers would choose to give up Mitchell, and that is that he wants to change teams, otherwise the Cavaliers should do their best to get an early contract extension with him in the offseason. It is worth mentioning that after the Cavaliers lost, it was not Mitchell and his team who were the first to raise dissatisfaction, but Garland's side began to put pressure on management, according to Shams, if the Cavaliers decided to keep Mitchell, then Garland's team will meet with management and may find a new team for him.

Compared to Mitchell's words, Garland just signed a five-year, 193 million max contract in 2022, so he is not only the highest-paid player on the team now, but his contract is expected to expire in 2028. With Garland's current performance, this contract may even develop in the direction of a premium in the future, which also adds a lot of difficulty for the Cavaliers if they want to send him away.

If Garland is determined to leave, the Cavaliers will most likely only be able to stop losses as much as possible, and it will be difficult for them to use Garland to trade back to a higher-level star player, especially when other teams see Garland play so badly in the playoffs, and there are long-term contracts and injury concerns, it is already quite good that they do not ask the Cavaliers to send some draft picks.

And now the Cavaliers' problem is not only Garland, judging from various media reports, their team is completely on the verge of disbandment. Because the Cavaliers want to keep Mitchell, there is a great possibility that Bickerstaff, whom he doesn't trust very much, will be out of class, and Mobley has also publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the team because he has too little ball, and he and the team's other core interior Allen have obvious overlap in the offensive end of the play, and it is worth mentioning that there are players within the Cavaliers who are also surprised by Allen's reluctance to play with injuries.

On the whole, the Cavaliers will usher in a big change in the offseason is basically a certainty, for Garland, he can indeed consider changing teams, in the Cavaliers he is obviously not competitive with Mitchell, but it is estimated that few strong teams will like Garland, considering his style of play and the problem of weak playoff habits, the most suitable may only be the kind of team on the edge of the playoffs.

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