coldfish wrote:Edit add, as a spot up shooter:
Coby 1.06ppp
Caruso 1.11ppp
Coby is still a young player and shooting is something that generally improves, usually by a pretty good amount, over time. I'd expect Coby to become a pretty good shooter. He's also a pretty high motor guy and so I think he can be an effort defender too. He can clearly get his shot off a ton more than Caruso whom has an embarrassingly low attempt rate which is also why he's likely efficient. It's like saying Chris Duhon or Keith Bogans were efficient when they would only shoot twice a game but could get decent percentages.
In terms of what Coby can be, it's hard to say. His ball handling sucks, for a guard he brings hte ball up way too high and is way to sloppy which is why he gets stripped a lot. He isn't athletic enough to be a great driver and isn't a big enough leaper or creative enough finisher to get much going at the rim as a primary attacker.
That said, he clearly can do all of those things a some level, just not a great one, and while his passing is not lead PG material at this point (and likely never will be), he has at least some ability there, especially as a combo guard.
He needs to improve to be a valuable bench combo guard, but not by leaps and bounds, he has a lot of the skills in place already and just needs to make iterative improvements, many of which are the type of things that will improve with age (strength, defensive awareness, shooting, and bbiq). He's got the basics to be a decent bench offense guy for a team down the road.
I still agree that it probably won't be here, because he's not the type of guy you want to break the bank for, and we may need to go into the tax to keep him which seems unlikely. That said, I wouldn't totally rule out the possibility that he takes a bigger step forward over the next two seasons and becomes someone much more valuable. Not overly likely to me, but still in the realm of possibility.
