One of the difficulties with projecting DeRozan's potential is finding comparables. I can't find another wing player who scored 17 pts a game as a 21 year old without a decent 3 point shooting game. He's a real anomaly in that way.
When he was drafted, he was seen as an extremely raw guy who had never been coached on the weaknesses in his game (half-court offense, defense, shooting). He'll always be an elite transition player, but in most other aspects of the game he's still very early on in the development process.
I think his size is fine if he learns to play a bit more of a SG game and create more room for himself (and his teammates) with his shot. He consistently gives an excellent effort but still makes bad decisions and is too tentative at times, and that goes to his relative inexperience and rawness. Still, I can't imagine the Raptors trading him unless it was a crazy return. His ceiling is still borderline all-star; he's got a lot of work to do and a lot of time to do it in to get to that point.
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