This is where analytics meets the "eye test," and I don't disagree with you on that. Neal was visually poor. I'm searching for reasons for optimism, but there's still plenty working against Neal.
However, not everything is 1000000% saying that Neal is terrible in every way like Brouwer was. He still has some redeeming qualities analytically, something absolutely nobody could say about Brouwer. Certain players dipped in one respect when playing with Neal, but not everyone plummeted drastically both offensively and defensively like they did with Brouwer. And this was in Neal's worst season ever where he shot 5% and looked like he had to be suppressing some sort of calamitous hand injury.
I think he has to be better. Perhaps that's misguided optimism.
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