Payton Pritchard has extended his hot streak to four games. In those outings, he’s averaging 19 points, 8 assists and 3.8 rebounds on 51.6% shooting from 3-point range and 52.7% from the field. Sooner or later, he’s going to regress to the mean. There’s no doubt that Pritchard is capable of producing high-level impact on a game-to-game basis, but his shooting will undoubtedly level out.
We should be hoping that his current stretch raises his floor and sets a new bar for what we consider a decent performance from him. As the first guard off the bench, Pritchard will significantly impact the flow of games once Joe Mazzulla gets into his rotations and combinations.