I'll occasionally catch the Kings on TV, but I don't watch them very often: if Roy says he's playing his ass off and you say he's mailing it in, who am I to believe?
I put very little stock in estimations of effort as a rule (since I find them notoriously unreliable), but who would you rate as better than DMC right now?
I am not rating anyone better than him, I am just saying he is only beginning to scratch the surface of his talent and is just doesn't even try all the time. You really can't find a measure of effort other than estimation. But no one plays 100% all of the time, and most guys do even half of the time. Watch guys with verticals, they do not jump max jump each time they leap. Not even Russell or Bird did, folks. Only guys who never played ball think guys go 100% all the time. My comment was not meant as a detriment to him, in a way, it makes him that much more impressive.
I am not saying he is mailing it in, I am saying that he does not go all in all the time, no one does. I have seen him make knucklehead plays occasionally as well. Like this one,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvmaOFo3iP0or this one, completely which helps his team in no way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPG8aapllwBehold, this is this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpo2F4Ldr2UTemper that with the fact, that it was preason,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SikiVn29smshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5vJz11u9wEyetest those and get back to me, he is human, and these things happen to all humans that play in the NBA.
I think he has improved a lot this year, but I clearly recall him missing a layup by hitting the bottom of the backboard in the game that Paul George got hurt in TEAM USA ball.
I think he would be great to have, his talent is so high that I think we have little or no chance of getting him.