I see where you're coming from, but the way he's been playing you have to unleash him.
The problem last year is he was unleashed and couldn't quite perform to that superstar level yet for whatever reason.
You want your top guy to be unleashed and playing freely while also playing very well. The question is how everybody else plays around that.
This year's ceiling is Carr is unleashed and everyone else is playing well. That's a very high potential ceiling if it can be achieved by tournament time. Any game where 3 of our guards are playing well we should win. If just 2 guards play well it's a tossup against the better teams.
We've put together very few complete team games this year imo. The big guys have played well but the guards have not gotten it all together. After Carr, Rice has carried the load for the guards so far this year. We're dominant in the games where Carr, Rice, and either Hunter or Morris has played well (just that one game for Morris, really).