What do you guys think Crowder's ceiling is? I'm really hoping that last year wasn't an aberration and/or his best year.
I don't think anything we saw from his last year was unsustainable I just think he's maxed out as a player.
He's great at what he does and IMO will continue to be, but he's not going to suddenly start jumping higher or develop a handle and passing game tight enough to justify working him as a primary ball handler. He's basically as good now as what you'd imagine his best case scenario would have been as a prospect. Development like that is rare and commendable but that being said I still don't see him becoming much better that what he is now.
Good enough to start on a championship team but the other pieces would need to be elite. It's one of the things that makes a guy like Markelle Fultz intriguing in the upcoming draft. If Josh Jackson, Harry Giles or one of the other big school studs is capable of unseating Fultz as the top prospect - something that I think is definitely possible considering Fultz is playing on a depleted Washington team and not Kentucky - I'd love to see what a guy with Fultz's blend of athleticism and scoring ability could do surrounded by Horford, Crowder, Smart and the rest of our blue collar squad.