The 'hidden' leap
Cavs fans aren't going to call this a 'hidden' leap after watching Darius go for 51 and 41 in two of his last 3 games but hear me out on this one. So far this season Garland's production has been flat compared to last year despite two 40+ point games out of 9 (only 8 full). Per 100 his scoring is up a bit from 30.3 pp/100 to 32.4 pp/100 on a bit lower efficiency of 55.9% vs 57.6% with a decline in his assist numbers (12.0 p/100 down to 10.7 p/100 and assist % down from 39.9 to 35.0). If you just looked at his outside shooting numbers you might be convinced that if anything he is running hot at 42.3% from 3 against a 38.1% career mark. But you would be wrong. Darius is actually getting unlucky- or has gotten much worse at basic basketball skills in the offseason, since the latter didn't happen its bad luck. Point 1: Garland is hitting 77% of his free throws against a career mark of 86%, in total this is ~ 4.5 missed free throws total, or ~ 0.5 po...