(Cream of the Crop is a recurring series that zeroes-in on something super cool that hasn’t been talked about enough. And, yes, we realize there is more than corn in Indiana, but this is Indy Cornrows and you have to let us live.)
Significant hangups have plagued the prospects that the Pacers have sent to the G League over the last several seasons. Rakeem Christmas ran the floor hard and wasn’t afraid to scrap on the offensive glass, but he was a non-shooting, small-ball center in a 6-foot-9 power forward’s body. Undersized, score-first guard Joe Young would show up and get buckets, but there never seemed to be much of an emphasis on developing the other areas of his game that would make him playable — especially when he didn’t get buckets.