Is he really a franchise player? Or is he a Chris Bosh/Kevin Love type of player? Nothing wrong with either, just sucks that he might not be the player that fans thought he can be.

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  4. a franchise player or a hall of famer like bosch and kevin love? first of all he isn’t better than bosch or klove, and i’m saying this as a mobley fan. mobley is my favorite player on the cavs. he is a great player, but not in a lbj or giannis type of way. he is a plus passer, he spaces the floor, he is a solid slasher, and he plays elite defense. i don’t think he’s ever going to be a 25 a night player, his ceiling is probably low 20s, 10, and 5 with 3-4 stocks, and if that’s not good enough i don’t know what to tell ya

  5. Why we gotta dog this man everytime we lose.

    I really don’t care if he’s not the MVP of the league in year 4 at age 24 with half the team hurt every other night including his primary setup man.

    He’s good, he ain’t perfect. It’s a long season and after last year, I think they realize that.

  6. this kind of slander is par for the course of a guy like Evan. he’s a good enough player that people actually care to make fun of him for his struggles.

    he’s been a pretty huge disappointment so far, but i think the people who are just giving up on a 24 year old who’s never been afforded the chance to learn through big mistakes are insane. he’ll hit a groove eventually and continue to grow.

  7. I don’t see any reason to call him any “type of player”. He’s got his own strengths and weaknesses, how well he improves on both will determine how good he gets. I think a couple of things are happening now:

    He’s still making open threes.

    But he’s finding out that no matter how buttery smooth his shot looked by the end of the summer with no one else on the court, he doesn’t have the foot quickness to use some of the moves that he worked on. He can’t drive past the guys who are guarding him because he doesn’t have a quick first step. So we see him slowly work into the key, turn around, and too often get the ball stolen.

    For a long time, Mitchell, the coach, and GM all said “we’re going as far as Evan takes us”. While that may have boosted his confidence, I think it also caused him to put a lot of pressure on himself to take another big step on offense. Now that he sees it’s not easy, he’s grappling with how to get out of his funk.

    I for the life of me don’t understand why he doesn’t take a few dribbles and put up a 14 footer before dribbling into traffic. A lot of times the shot is there, he chooses not to take it.

    It doesn’t help that most offensive possessions are “four guys stand on the perimeter waiting for whoever has the ball to drive and kick it out”. I see very little movement off the ball on this team, so Mobley (or anyone except the 3 point shooters) doesn’t often get the ball where he has options. He’s almost always at the 3 point line, which isn’t going to result in a lot of baskets.

    I think Mobley will get a lot better than he has been playing, right now he’s going though some shell shock and he has to work through it.

  8. The scoring is bad but tbh it’s the rebounds that kill me more than anything, the getting by outrebounded frequently is what infuriates me most. We’re all Cavs folks in here, so I hope he turns it around, but he’s easily the biggest disappointment to me

  9. He looks overwhelmed by them asking him to play a completely different role with him expanding his offense, almost like he is overwhelmed. It would be nice to see a few more games where he catches fire offensively for all of the added attention to it.

    My biggest concern is he is so focused on expanding his offense and getting out of his comfort zone, its effecting his defense.

    You cant ask a dude to be Jokic on offense and then be KG on defense as well. There is a balance there and the Cavs need to work to find it.

  11. Bosh and Love were better… I’m done pretending Mobley is anything more than a #3 option offensively.

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