“The whole year last year was,” Mitchell said. “When I found out about that shoe (his signature shoe), it kind of capped off an entire year of being surprised by everything.”
Mitchell took the world by storm and surpassed every expectation possible on his way to a second-round playoff visit and a second-place finish in Rookie of the Year voting.
But that’s the funny thing about expectations: they change. Once people saw what Mitchell was capable of, they asked for growth — even despite a foot injury that severely hampered what he was able to do this summer.