Last season, Darius Garland had a bounce-back campaign, as compared to his rookie year, and he looked like a totally different player for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In Year 1, because of a number of reasons, Garland was fairly underwhelming for Cleveland. He had 12.3 points and 3.9 assists per outing, and he was reportedly still not himself, in relation to his prior meniscus injury which cut short his lone collegiate season at Vanderbilt.
Fortunately, we saw what Garland could be when that wasn’t in the back of his mind in his second season, and the results followed.