Collin Sexton’s durability has been impressive for Cavs, even more of reason for him as primary option

Collin Sexton is yet to miss a game in his two seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, which shouldn’t be glossed over.

Collin Sexton‘s arrow is pointing up looking at next season for the Cleveland Cavaliers, given how his second year with them played out. Yes, you’d ideally like to see Sexton improve as a passer, but he showed progression in that realm leading into the novel coronavirus-induced hiatus and what ultimately was the end of 2019-20 for Cleveland.

His on-ball defense got better last season as well, even though the team defensive metrics were rough overall. In any case, what stood out from year 2 was Sexton firmly establishing himself as Cleveland’s go-to scorer, as he led the Wine and Gold in scoring at 20.8 points per game, and that was even with a mostly healthy Kevin Love with him often.

Sexton had his share of big-time bucket-getting games, which included him going off for a then-career-best 32 points against the Utah Jazz on March 2, and he followed that up with a still-career-high 41-point outing in a narrow loss to the Boston Celtics on March 4.

Sexton’s ability to fill it up at all three levels makes him so difficult for opposing defenses to account for throughout games, and with how he’s hit 39.2 percent from three-point range in his first two seasons, opponents better not be going under ball screens anymore on him. In terms of off-the-catch, Sexton hit 42.1 percent on catch-and-shoot three-point attempts in 2019-20, too, per NBA.com’s shot tracking data.

That will aid him more so as a driver and mid-range pull-up shooter in the near future as well, and looking at next season, also factoring in him being able to change speeds to keep defenders off balance, to me it’s apparent that Sexton should be the Cavs’ primary option.

There are times throughout games when Sexton is just really rolling as a bucket-getter, and even at only 21, he undoubtedly should be the go-to scorer for the Cavaliers in year 3. Additionally, though, with Sexton’s durability, that’s even more reason he should be Cleveland’s go-to scorer.

Sexton’s durability for the Cleveland Cavaliers has been impressive, and he’ll be able to handle a big workload going forward.

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Collin Sexton is yet to miss a game through his technically first two seasons with the Cavs. Of course, in his second campaign with them, the Cavaliers only had 65 games due to the COVID-19 impact/them not being invited to the season restart in Orlando.

That said, it’s still impressive that Sexton hasn’t missed time due to injury and has been active in all of his 147 games he was slated to appear in thus far with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

For a guard that is listed at 6-foot-1 and 190 pounds and plays with such a hard-charging/physically taxing style, that shouldn’t be glossed over.

Albeit with Collin having such a tireless work ethic, that plays right into him being such a durable player, which is not something the Cavs and their fans should take for granted.

Sexton gaining strength coming into his second season likely only aided him from an availability standpoint game-to-game, too, and I’m sure coming into next season after a long layoff, he should be geared up for another big workload.

Moreover, with Sexton always being ready to go from a health standpoint it seems due to his youth and his truly rare commitment level coupled with that, that durability is even more reason for him to be taking over as clearly the Cavs’ primary option in the scoring sense next season.

Kevin Love, although he is still Cleveland’s best catch-and-shoot threat and hit 37.4 percent of a career-high 7.0 three-point attempts per game in 2019-20, shouldn’t be counted on in the low post much from here on out due to his injury history and him set to be 32 soon.

Anyhow, to me, he’s the Cavs’ second option offensively next season, considering Sexton’s rise, and Sexton should be option 1 thanks to his multi-dimensional scoring and his availability every night for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

That’s even factoring in pieces such as it would extremely likely seem Andre Drummond, and perhaps Darius Garland/Kevin Porter Jr./Cleveland’s fifth overall pick in the upcoming draft.

Looking forward, expect a whole lot of Sexton getting buckets for the Wine and Gold, and man am I #Bullish on the young guard heading into his third season for Cleveland.