01-25-2021, 11:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-25-2021, 11:18 AM by SleepingHero.)
(01-25-2021, 10:58 AM)omahen Wrote: Every single draft expert had Terry as a first round pick. I think it is extremely unfair to judge after 51 scattered minutes. I can totally agree Terry didn't look good, but I certainly give him more time before a final judgement.
What I'm saying is that if Terry were a more complete player, he'd garner more than 51 minutes. S.Bey/Achiuwa/Maxey/Quickley/Pritchard/Bane were all taken from 19-30. All have played significant minutes on their team because they are good enough to command it.
Terry hasn't and he hasn't shown much of anything so far in his limited garbage time minutes to think he'll improve. Does that mean I think he won't improve? Of course not. He's very young. His career is just beginning. It'd be idiotic to think that the Terry we see now will forever be the Terry for the rest of his career just based on a 10 game sample size.
But we also have to acknowledge that Terry has looked downright scared in his limited minutes. Coming into the draft he was supposed to be one the best shooters, and so far that part of his game is non-existent. He just does not want to shoot a 3. Further, his handle as a guard is sloppy. There have been numerous occasions where he's just dribbled the ball off his foot or gotten ripped. Finally his passing game isn't bad, but because he can't really move around the perimeter due to subpar dribbling, and he doesn't seem interested in shooting, all of his passes are simple ones that don't really dictate the offense.
But I said in my OG post that Terry has time and I don't expect him to stay this bad. But as of right now today, Terry is deadweight. And it's a bit disheartening seeing how incomplete of a player he is given how many players who were picked before him are performing on good teams.
(01-25-2021, 10:58 AM)omahen Wrote: ??? How can you say that? No one here has any idea what was really happening and this is pure speculation. It would be extremelly unproffessional to not have a draft board... A big team of guys is preparing for draft for months. I can't imagine they don't have a plan ready for vast majority of possible scenarios.
(01-25-2021, 10:45 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Of course this is all conjecture and just my own read of the situation. None of this can be true and perhaps the Mavs truly liked Green/Terry the most from their class and those were their guys from the get-go. Just from what Donnie said on draft night and seeing how the Mavs are approaching drafts the last 2 years this scenario makes the most sense to me.
You can finish reading my post btw.
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