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And Bowen bounced around playing in crappy international leagues for years before sticking in the NBA. Compared with Bruce, Danny Green's path to the NBA had rose petals sprinkled on it. He's been clutch for us even in a number of playoff games, he was a winner in college, he's an above average man defender, he can hit the open shot, make the pass to the next guy, and make the right rotations... he's a basketball player. If we start depending on him to create his own shot in isos, we're doomed, but we already know that.
Cool. That means Kawhi's going to be pretty damn special, doesn't it? Manu didn't start for us his rookie year, but he sure got it done during crunch time. And we're asking less of Kawhi than we did of Manu back then, IIRC.
As far as I'm concerned, he hasn't proven he's a legitimately clutch player yet, or that he cares deeply about winning. But he's a smart basketball player that does the right thing with the ball 95 times out of 100. He can defend, pass, dribble, and shoot. And even if it turns out that he doesn't come up as clutch as we'd like, that still makes him the best guy we've lined up next to Tim in the paint since Robert Horry packed it in.
