Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland shoots the ball. (Photo by Daniel Dunn-USA TODAY Sports)
There were growth signs across the board for Darius Garland in his second season for the Cleveland Cavaliers. After a rookie campaign that was fairly underwhelming for him, he had a robust 17.4 points and 6.1 assists per contest during this now-past season, and Garland looked like a different player.
In his rookie season, Garland did reportedly have his prior meniscus injury that cut short his lone collegiate season at Vanderbilt in the back of his mind, though.
That seemingly was part of the reason he was playing somewhat timid, and did not have nearly the shiftiness, nor the same playmaking abilities off of drives/penetration he had in 2020-21.