Drop him ? You crazy . Hold and stay the course . The entire plan was to ease him into things as he recovers from his surgery . Thus the nights off , limited minutes , and even cautious play at times . I don ' t see where anything has really played out much differently than expected thus far . He ' s a hair behind his Per 36 averages last season , but that ' s not unreasonable at all given the surgery . They just started loosening his minute restriction . And if all goes well , by the second half of the season he should be starting and getting 30 a game every night . At which point you ' re looking at a solid 188 center . He ' s only a bad pick if you expected much out of him for the first third of the season , and thus drafted him too high .