How good can Matas Buzelis be in his second NBA season?

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00:00This is a guy that, before the All-Star break last year, was getting 14.8 minutes per game.

00:06And he wasn't doing much of anything.

00:09Averaging 6.4 points, 2.8 rebounds.

00:12And here's the numbers that I really look at, Layla.

00:14He was sliding in.

00:15The offensive rating and the defensive rating.

00:18Pre-All-Star break.

00:20He had an offensive rating of 101.

00:22And a defensive rating of 117.

00:25That's per 100 possessions.

00:27What are you giving up and what are you putting in?

00:29101-117, that is a stark deficit.

00:33Post-All-Star break, that offensive rating bumps up from 101 to 109.

00:38The defensive rating falls from 117 to 113.

00:42Now you're getting closer.

00:43So you can look analytically at the numbers while he's averaging now,

00:47instead of 6.4 points per game in 14.8 minutes a contest,

00:5213 points a game in 26.8 minutes per contest.

00:55And there's good news here, too.

00:57While the field goal percentage went up from 441 pre-All-Star break to 467 post-All-Star break,

01:04the three-point percentage stayed the exact same, 36.1%.

01:07And that's something, it's above the league average.

01:10You can live with that.

01:12And his free throw percentage went from 79.6% to 83.3%.

01:17He just has all the tools.

01:20It's just more about getting bigger, stronger, more fearless with the basketball in his hands.

01:26And you can see all the stuff that can make this kid special one day.

01:30Yeah, I hate to say the term downhill player because I wanted that out of Patrick Williams as well.

01:37Just a guy who knows his space and can take it to the hole also.

01:41So if he can do both of those things and his three points stays the same,

01:45you're talking about a complete NBA talent.