Mahomes is the Michael Jordan of football

I’m proud to say that I don’t know who Mahones is. I’ve never heard of the name in my life. (If only I could say the same for that Jordan fellow…)

that his ceiling is a decent bench piece

He was already better than that last year! He was good. No, he didn’t create even then, but had higher usage and better offensive numbers and to my eyes was playing better D. I don’t know what happened with him, but if forced to bet, would bet on that guy – a starter on a playoff team – being closer to the real guy than the first few months of this year.

He hasn’t even shot all that well on the spot-ups and also never gets to the FT line. Add it all up and that comes out to a 93 TS+ on 15 USG%.

That is some terrible offensive play, worse than it looks on the surface. He’s supposed to be a floor spacer, but he shoots right at league average on 3-pointers despite almost every single one of those being an assisted basket.

He’s probably capable of playing better than that, but he has been pretty dreadful on offense this year.

If you want to compare BPM and TS%.

For their careers:
BPM:
Grimes -0.5
Bojan -0.8
Burks -0.4

TS%
Grimes 58.9%
Bojan 59.5%
Burks 54.6%

This year and last year:
BPM
Grimes -0.6
Bojan -0.2
Burks 0.5

TS%
Grimes 59.5%
Bojan 61.7%
Burks 59.4%

Add to that, that Grimes is a much better defender than both and on the upswing of his career and Burks and Bojan are on the downswing and neither really feels like much of an upgrade.

Curry 4

Lebron 4

Possible Mahomes ends on top