Kyrie also had the kyrie-dion dynamic before lbj returned. The problem with that is dion thought he's 1B but kyrie is clear 1.Never indicated Garland is on a similar trajectory or said they play comparable games..
The point was simple: For all that is levied against Garland, if we zoom out he's been as productive in his time as one of the Cavalier greats in his first five years with the team... Garland needs to improve and has had a down year but he's still in a good place and the talent has produced..
The other point was for all that questioned about Kyrie, it took him some time to breakthrough... Ironically enough, it was year three with LeBron and a full year with Lue for Irving to really answer those questions, and it's looking like what it might take for Garland to take the next step..
Irving was 23 in year five, Garland is 24 in year five... I don't anticipate Garland having the huge upward trajectory as Irving did but development is not linear for young players and sometimes it takes a step back to go a step forward..
It really ain't that deep...
Unfortunately, in the DM-DG dynamic, DG is dion