Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had a sophomore NBA season. Some will claim it was horrible. Few will say it was a roaring success. But none can argue that it didn't happen. Kidd-Gilchrist was hurt against in Dallas in December, which knocked him out of 19 games. That probably didn't help his flow (didn't hurt his hustle though). It essentially delayed the start to his season which was a shame because he was playing his best offensive basketball in November, shooting 51 percent from the floor while playing almost 30 minutes a night. He never got back to even 25 minutes per game of play during any month the rest of the season and it took him until March to have a positive plus/minus, if that stat's your thing.
But Kidd-Gilchrist was a big piece of this team's success because he's such an effective defender. He's not perfect, if you watch enough he will have lapses, isn't yet a 100% lockdown one-on-one defender and he did make some noise by giving up 62 and 61 points to Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James, respectively. (The nerve to give up points to one of the best scorers on the planet and the best basketball player in the world. Pfft, ridiculous.)
