I have seen enough this season to beleive he is a lot better at playmaking, just based on not playing most of last season, and instead studying film for over the past year .
If he wasn't doing that at all, then yeah I guess he is the same player, just never got the credit for his playmaking as a first option scorer/ tank commander.
Your takes on him are pretty weak. Seems like you been reading Cavs boards full of digruntled Lebron homers, that hated him before he got good and refused to admit they were wrong.