11-19-2020, 01:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2020, 01:34 PM by HanspardsShowerVoice.)
(11-19-2020, 11:59 AM)hakeemfan Wrote: Justin Anderson was a good pick. It didn’t work out. Mavs went for an athletic defensive wing hoping he might get better on offense. SAS took the same track on a player like Kawhi. One worked out, the other didn’t.
If the Mavs take athletic guards/wings with length, that is all they can do. Some of the development is also luck.
With Terry they went for a pure shooter though he is short. However it looks like he was an unselfish playmaker who took on more of a scoring responsibility at Stanford. Cannot complain there either. They took guys with upside. That’s all they can do.
I've also heard people like Zach Lowe say that 3D guys take longer to develop than other positions, which I would not have guessed they had an inherently large learning curve compared to other roles. I guess aside from developing a consistent long range shot, there is just a lot to learn about team defense concepts and switching and all the tricks of the trade that are involved with becoming a high level perimeter defender. That's why I kind of like the Mavs approach of taking multiple fliers on raw guys like Reaves and Roby and Bey and essentially sending them to an inhouse "3D Academy" for a year or two and hoping one pans out.