He’s a young point guard. Young point guards make their team worse. We need to be ready for that and not freak out when it happens. He’ll be at least as bad as bayless, whose minutes he’ll take, and worse than TJ. We’ll also probably get him in lineups that have been net positives for us, and he’ll make them worse.

All of this is completely fine and keeps us on schedule with The Process. This was always going to be a consolidation year. We’re spoiled from Embiid and Simmons, but rookies need to play through their mistakes. It will start to pay dividends next year.