Kentavious Caldwell-Pope might be regressing a little bit. After his second season where he actually shot okay from three, he’s shooting below 30% five “long gun” attempts per game. The last guy who did that in Detroit got run out of town with a bunch of years still left on his contract. I’m not advocating that KCP get run out of town or that he receives the same level of outrage as Josh Smith did; KCP is still young, and being young means you get to suck without any repercussions other than that your first real contract might not have as many zeroes on it as you would like.
I am officially going to withhold judgement on how good or how not good Caldwell-Pope is until his twenty-eighth birthday has passed. At that point, he will be the player who he is and not a young version of that player. In the interest of full disclosure, I fully expect to ignore this proclamation, and resume my haterisms, next time I have to make a KCP vid.