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[SleepingHero]

If he were consistent, that might be true, but he is anything but consistent.

Well I suppose it depends on the expectation and scale of consistency.  Green last year wasn't a night in-night out 15 point a game guy. But piggybacking off of everyone else's comments, setting in stone a 22 year olds future production based off of his previous season is tricky at best and slightly obtuse at worst. 

Green has consistently gotten better each year, and has nearly doubled his offensive output year after year. Following that trend, he should average close to 18ppg next year. Of course that's unlikely, but it's not inconceivable (nor unlikely) that Green could average close to 15ppg based on his historical trends.

That also coincides with an increase of efficiency as well. It's one thing to score more, but to also become more efficient while doing so is rare. And it points to his increases not being a fluke. From that perspective, we should expect Green to come into next season being a more polished offensive player, and one that's due for a pay increase.

Obviously I'd love to have Green on as cheap of a deal as possible, but I don't see why many are balking at the idea that Green could become worth 4/80 by the beginning of the next summer. We'll see. I'm not going to try and bet against the guy since he's made consistent big strides year after year.

By the way, just to hammer it home, Green scored more total points, had more shots per game, more points per game, and was magnitudes more efficient than Caruso has been the last 2 previous seasons.