Cleveland Cavaliers: 2 realistic expectations for Taurean Prince for ’21-22

When he’s been available for the Cleveland Cavaliers this season, Taurean Prince has had his share of nice outings. Prince, who was acquired, to go with Jarrett Allen of course, via trade from the Brooklyn Nets via the James Harden-centric mega deal, has done a pretty nice job.

With the Cavaliers this season, he’s had 10.1 points per outing, to go with 3.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 23.7 minutes per contest. That’s been in 29 appearances.

Along with that, Prince, who had been largely streaky/had a somewhat unclear role with Brooklyn, has shot well from three-point range with Cleveland.

In his playing time, he’s hit 41.5 percent of his three-point attempts, which was more so on-par with how he was shooting from deep in his last two seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, of whom dealt him to Brooklyn before 2019-20.

Unfortunately for Prince, he has dealt with injury struggles with the Cavs, of which included him previously missing 10 games because of a left shoulder sprain, and he had been dealing with/managing a left ankle injury.

In that realm, it wasn’t surprising that as was reported to likely be the case following the season, that Prince ended up having surgery to repair his ankle injury in late April. That should hopefully aid him for next season/from there, and he’ll gradually progress in his recovery, one would think in the upcoming offseason.

So, with Prince, though, who had been playing very well up until his season ended out, what’s fair to expect from him next season?

We’ll touch on two realistic expectations for the Cavs veteran wing next season here.

We’ll start next with realistic expectation #1, involving his shot creation.