xBulletproof wrote:Upperclass wrote:An absolute star. Basically should be what Oladipo was when healthy
Hopefully in years, maybe ... and I doubt that. Dipo was an isolation scorer, who created shots for himself mostly and sometimes others off the dribble. Mathurin needs to work on his ball handling and handling contact when doing so. His defense also needs a lot of work to get where Dipo was for that exceptional time. You can't give Mathurin the ball and say ... 'go get a shot'. If that's who you're expecting you're likely to be greatly disappointed. He also is more theory than results on defense. He has the tools, but he gets lost off ball easy and gets burned among other issues.
I watched almost every single shot made, shot missed, turnover, rebound, assist everything he had at Arizona I could find. I would bet it was 80% of his games roughly. First, he struggles when on a level playing field with the defender, he needs a dribble hand off, screen or sloppy close out to be successful as a driver consistently. Once he gets past 2-3 dribbles, it isn't normally good. He can shoot coming off screens in a lot of ways and seems to be a good cutter, that should be his biggest use initially. But to compare him to Oladipo is just a misunderstanding what his game is and isn't at this point.
Unless he puts in a TON of work on ball handling between the end of college and the start of the NBA and makes some outrageous leaps in ability there, don't expect a guy who can get buckets on 1v1's. Oladipo was a shot creator, Mathurin is a play finisher, which will benefit from playing with Haliburton.
So what would you compare him to and in your opinion what's his future outlook?
I think 90% of his 3 point shot makes were assisted. Where shot creators are like 50% or less. The one good team he was on had Steve Nash, and he averaged 15 ppg on it, on some of his best efficiency. If that's what Mathruin is, I wouldn't be shocked. 
