Michael Carter Williams Vs The Rookie Wall

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At the start of their careers, some players storm out of the gates. Michael Carter-Williams roared out of them on a flaming chariot pulled by coked-up velociraptors.

On Oct. 30, it seemed a new star was born. In garnering 22 points, 12 assists, 9 steals, and 7 rebounds in the Sixers 114-110 upset of the twice-defending champs, MCW posted the second-highest assist total of a rookie NBA debut, the most steals, and became the first player of any experience level since 1985and the third everto record a line of 22/12/9/7 or better.

It was astonishing. And MCW, for an improbably long stretch, continued to astonish.

He ran the floor like a manic gazelle, wearing opponents down with his relentlessness. His long arms were equally adept at disrupting opponents passing lanes as they were at dishing assists on the subsequent breaks. He struggled as shooter, sure, but his aggression and fearlessness suggested a killer instinct, the psyche of a superstar. Anything and everything seemed possible for him, his potential without discernible limit. An afterthought on draft night turned foundational piecea 67 point guard whos package of size, smarts, and athleticism was and is unparalleled at the position.

The NBA took notice. He was named the leagues top rookie after November and January and won Player of the Week honors on Nov. 3becoming the first rook since Shaq to do so. Carter-Williams was the Associations it freshman, the consensus gem of the class, the reason Jrue Holiday hadnt been forgotten as much as hed been wiped, Lacuna Inc.-style, from the citys collective memory.

This wild success explains, in part, why its taken even close followers of the team a weirdly long time to recognize a plain fact: its been awhile since Michael Carter-Williams actually played good basketball.

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