Cleveland Cavaliers: How Jordan Clarkson can improve on both ends

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Jordan Clarkson projects as one of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ better young pieces but he still can be a lot better with how athletic he is.

Recency bias often works both ways in many areas of life.

Jordan Clarkson did not have a tremendous postseason for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He only had averaged 4.7 points in 15.1 minutes per game on a disappointing 30.1 percent shooting. He also had a pretty rough (to say the least) box plus-minus of minus-9.2, per Basketball-Reference.

It was his first playoff experience though and, as is also the case with Cavs restricted free agent Rodney Hood, we need to turn the page. Chalk it up as a valuable learning experience that should come be helpful for his future with the Cavs.

Those players could be key pieces for the next few years for Cleveland, or at least could be valuable trade assets.

Back to Clarkson, the first area of improvement that sticks out is getting his teammates involved.

Clarkson has the speed and dynamic quickness to get to the hoop without much effort but, like LeBron, can he do that and get his teammates involved?

Can he be a selfless playmaker?