Using points per game as a barometer of offensive skill completely misses out on effectiveness when given opportunities or areas when he can be effective. What happened in February of last year? Allen isn't going to self create away from the bucket or be a perimeter threat but he's consistently shown soft hands, good finishing and good footwork when given opportunities in the post... yet why is that so limited? Mobley isn't a static creator in the sense of a Brandon Ingram, and that will cap his offensive scoring ceiling until it changes, but it doesn't mean he can't create offense. Cavs ran inverted P&R successfully with him last year and he took a leap as a playmaker with a career high AST% and a career low TOV%. Put him in the short roll or operate out of the post and he's a good passer. If you're insistent on the guards being finishers and scorers, why also ask them to create and handle the offensive creation burden? Why not lean into others creating that, and creating offense in different ways? The ironic part of all that is if Mobley averages another shot last year, he would have been a 20 ppg scorer. Can't do that if you're not proficient in some way offensively. Which all gets back to opportunity and usage.

Lack of involvement is not always tied to lack of shots, and is an underlying issue — the way this team creates offense has a ceiling being guard centric. JA has consistently shown if you get him involved he will produce. So why not get him involved? It’s not just about what Mobley producing his own shots, it’s allowing him to be a handler, a hub to facilitate offense off of that — to create advantages for others and lift the burden off the way they create offense currently. The Cavs are too easily disrupted, and how they create offense and thrown off, just by challenging the dribble and the touch. They do not do well in implementing their style of play consistently and are too consistently thrown off that style.