LOS ANGELES - Austin Reaves has underperformed for most of the season. He went from a bonafide starter with a ceiling that was as unknown as it was optimistic to a player struggling to find his groove, relegated to the bench and proving his biggest critics right.
He's just an overrated player, scoring mainly due to foul hunting and his couple of big-time games are more of an anomaly than a sign of things to come. In fact, if he wasn't playing for the Lakers, no one would know his name and he definitely wouldn't have received a four-year, $56 million contract.