Dude is never meant to be anything other than a sturdier, bigger Brad MillerFrank was never seen as a can't miss prospect to me and I figured his ceiling if he reached his potential would be 15/8. He will play for a decade because he is skilled and he is 7 foot but anyone who even knows a little about the game would know that he wasn't ever going to be an All Star type player. He lacks the foot speed or the athleticism along with the lateral quickness to be anything more then a fourth or fifth option on a good team. Not trying to knock him cause I hope the best for him but I was never fooled by what he did in college cause I have seen it to many times over the years with these white stiffs who come into the league hyped and ending up as average players.
Which is DOPE for today's NBA - but Franks most valuable asset to a team like ours, passing, is gonna take a while to grow because he's learning an NBA offense. This isn't the 90s where offensive playbooks were only for teams to use when the star player was on the bench, dude has homework to do. shyt, when Kemba was in his first few years in the league (including his first with Cliff) dude wasn't even allowed to run the offense. We ran UCLA high post sets nonstop with Diaw and McBob because coaches just didn't trust the ball in his hand. Damian Lillard didn't run the offense at any point during LMA's stint. Horford did the heavy lifting in Atlanta's offense for damn near a decade - NONE of those guards had the trust he did.
NBA offenses are serious shyt these days. If Frank is supposed to grow into the role of a stretch 5 that can run an offense from the low post as well, its not going to be overnight. And we can't let him learn on the job just for the fukk of it either. We got one of the best offenses in the league right now. Its not because Hawes is hitting shots or making plays, its because Hawes knows where the fukk to go in order to keep the ball moving. That's really all it is.