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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.

No one is setting what Josh is going to be in stone.  He's entering the last year of his contract.  Has three years of NBA experience, a year of college and some international experience.  We know he is a hard worker.  We've seen flashes of him using his A+ athleticism for spectacular results followed by him looking like a deer in the headlights.  We saw him be unplayable in the playoffs and thought, he'll take a leap next year and when that next year came and you thought he'd taken that leap, he went right back to being passive.  I don't need him to get better at this point.  He is a pesky defender, comfortable with the ball in his hands, makes smart cuts, passes pretty well and can shoot the rock.  What I need for him is to have confidence night-in and night-out.  He could earn a 4/80 contract and look like a bargain and he could also get a 4/40 contract that you'd regret.  The sad or frustrating part about this is that Josh belongs, he just doesn't realize it. I keep going back to the Spencer podcast with Pinson last year and Spencer trying to build Josh up when he walked by.

Just to hammer it home, I'd take Alex over Josh right now.  I know what I'm going to get from Alex every game, far less so than Josh.  Basketball is more than just stats.  I'm sure Wood had pretty nice stats the last few seasons too.