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[mvossman]

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.

I think there is room for both.  Timmy is a quality rotational level player and was actually one of our better defenders last year (low bar) with a descending contract that is already neutral in value.  For a talent starved team, I don't know why we would want to dump him unless we are getting real value back.