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[mvossman]

There are just too many nights when Tim gives the team absolutely nothing.  He's an average player, who plays good sometimes, but 20-25% of the time he's just so damned bad that it's almost an automatic loss.  It's really hard to overcome when a guy plays half the game and scores 2-5 points and doesn't impact the defense or team rebounding positively. And it's not like he's setting up his teammates. If we can't find someone more consistent to take his minutes we'll be out of the playoffs again.

I have seen this argument a lot, and I am curious if Tim has any more variance in his outcomes than other high volume shooters who score the majority of their points form the 3.  The closest to Tim we have had on this team lately is probably Bullock, and he had at least as much variance as Tim.

But more importantly, Tim provides value beyond what his shooting percentage was for the night.  He provides more spacing (other than our superstars) than anyone else on the team.  He takes more 3s and has a quicker release than anyone on the team, with a very good percentage doing it.  That provides more gravity to allow the superstars to do their thing.  Even when he is not hitting his shot, he is still providing offensive value.