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Hard disagree (with you, at least, and them, I guess, if you're right about how they view him). I think there's a huge difference between "on-ball scorer" and "someone we can trust to run the offense." I think what pops with Hardy is his uncommonly high number of on-ball counters to defense and ability to get a variety of shots off after creative dribble moves. Sure, he could be an off-ball shooter, too, but that wouldn't excite me in the least. 

Further, what they allow him to do as a rookie and how they envision carving a role out for him within the structure of the team in the immediate to long term future could be drastically different things.

I think that his role is going to completely depend on who he is on the floor with honestly but...  

There's no reason he can't offer a healthy balance of off ball shooting with the on ball creativity you're talking about.  Putting him in the same sort of action as Hardaway today (flare screens, movement off the ball) would allow him to take his pick, he can catch and shoot or he can catch and attack.  I would argue that having someone playing the role as Hardaway who can do more than simply take contested threes (which is fine, it's his game) would really make our offense much more dangerous.  Hardaway doesn't do any on ball creation not because the offense doesn't ask him to, it's because he can't.