Playing like KD will be too much of an ask for the young guy. First, they play a totally different position. Second, you need to have extreme handling skills to be able to reach KD's level. They may be near in height, but KD is a totally different beast. He already improved a lot based on his recent games. He is not sluggish anymore and has better positioning under the ring. Another year of experience and we may see an NBA level of skills on Kai if he does not stop training and improving his game. The body that he needs will naturally follow if he continues to improve and mature.
Let's only think of that once Kai gets to the NBA, he was not even drafted yet, so our expectation is too much. The good thing with him is that he keeps improving, if he will become a superstar in the NBL, that's where he will get a good chance to be in the NBA.
Still far in my opinion, unless he will show big improvement and he will gain more minutes than what he's getting right now.
Kai's mindset will bring him to his dream career. I agree that he's not stopping, and he keeps trying motivating himself to reach
that dream.
Only time can predict how Kai will become in the near future. For now, he needs to keep on pushing and try to learn more with
each experience that he's gaining from every different league that he is playing.
Kai Sotto is a kid who has really good potential. But he seriously needs to put on some muscles. Because if he does not he will be more prone to injury. I really don't want him to break any bombs at this stage of his career. But he is a really hard-working player. It is hard to find young players who are really hard-working even though they have talent. Sometimes young players take it easy because they have good talent. But he is not someone like that. If he can keep performing like this and push himself to perform better, he is really going to be one of the best in the world in my opinion. But probably it is too soon to predict that.
But right now the main priority should be putting on some weight and muscles for himself. Otherwise, he can easily get injured. Just looking at him now it feels like if he has a bad fall he might break a bone.