I’m sensing a lack of hype for Collin Sexton. All the picks above him in the draft (except Wendell Carter) are the focus of a lot of scrutiny and expectations. But not Sexton, at least not to the same extent as a Mo Bamba or Jaren Jackson. What’s going on. Is it because Cleveland is a desolate wasteland basketball-wise and everything that happens there is ignored? I bet Tristan Thompson is regretting saying “we’re still the best team in the East”.
Well, I have expectations for Sexton:
-14 ppg on 40 percent shooting (attainable????)
-Dunks
-2 mixtapes, one showing his chill lo-fi hip-hop side and one showing his gritty urban gangsta side
-A steal or a block at some point
-1 awkwardly earnest Players’ Tribune article that makes me never want to read anything written by a pro athlete ever again
Those aren’t so bad, are they? Nothing unreasonable. Hell, some of those things are things I could achieve and I wasn’t even drafted. I’ll let you know when I’ve got a track up on my Soundcloud.