07-12-2022, 10:32 AM
(07-12-2022, 07:42 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: This was my point on draft night. But I worry that he and the Mav's want him to be a three level scorer who handles the ball a lot and has high usage. That is what he is against summer league and G-league competition with fairly inefficient results.
I'm not positive that should be his NBA role to start and the more he tries to be that the more I fear he won't make it. I'd rather he start as a three point shooter getting wide open looks here who can beat an aggressive closeout. Let him find some success on something it appears he can learn to do and add the other stuff later. Unfortunately, that won't happen being the star of our team in Frisco. He's going to have to do it in NBA games which means spoon feeding him some minutes in his proper early career role rather than letting him develop bad habits in the minors.
I mentioned the same thing in my post. There have been a lot of very good and some great players who did not handle the ball much as a guard. It is up to the coaching staff to assess someone’s inherent strengths and play to those strengths. No one is stopping Hardy from keeping on working on his handles meanwhile but right know anytime he dribbles into traffic I am expecting something bad to happen.