Two good games in a row for Willie Cauley-Stein? I didn’t hear very many people calling him a bust (yet), but there were probably a few out there who have now been totally proven wrong in their judgment of WCS. Would a bust score 13 and 17 in consecutive games on a combined 14 of 17 shooting? No. No bust has ever had such good games in succession. Ever.
Now that we have determined that WCS is definitely not a bust, we can start thinking about other things. Like what his ceiling is. I’m thinking something like a less chuck-happy version of Samuel Dalembert (before you criticize me on my analysis of Fatty-D, remember that he was kind of a chucker in Milwaukee). Is that a good comparison? Dalembert ended up with a pretty nice career, so that’s something for WCS to aspire towards.
Maybe he can be Brandan Wright, if we’re being slightly less optimistic. Just stand around and dunk any ball that comes near you at the basket. Plenty of bigmen have made that their modus operandi on offense, and no one criticizes them for it.