esqtvd wrote:MartinToVaught wrote:Austin is shooting 26% from 10-16 and 20% from 16-21 this year. His 3PT% is an outlier compared to his career. He's also a terrible free throw shooter.
Face it: Austin is one of those "shooting guards who can't shoot" that you're against paying. But unlike Ty, he doesn't play defense or contribute anything else. He's also overpaid. But you make every excuse in the book for him, and then you act like giving minimum contracts to Jawun and Thornwell is going to ruin our cap flexibility.
Your extreme pro-Rivers bias makes your opinions on Wallace impossible to take seriously.
You need to know how to read the stats. Shots between 10 feet and the 3-point line represent only 9.9% of Austin's shots. 3-pointers comprise 45.8% of his shots! And he hits almost 40% of them, for a TS% of 59.2% on 3s. [297 points on 251 attempts.] And 3s serve a great strategic purpose, as they space the floor. A SG with these numbers will always have a job in the NBA.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/riverau01.html
Ty's problem is that he can't hit the 3. If he could, he'd have a contract. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. The rest of his game is fine.
As for Juwan and Sindarius, until they can hit the 3, they are marginal players as well, a dime a dozen. At this point, our 3-year commitment to them isn't a disaster, but it's not a plus either. I think most of us would prefer Ty to those two, but we just don't need any more contracts like that.
I can read the stats just fine. Austin's percentage of FGA from three is an outlier for his career just like his shooting percentage from three. This is the only year he's ever taken more than 40% of his shots from three, and his career average of FGA from three is only 33%. And his 3PT% this year (40%) is also an outlier compared to the norm (35% career).
You are pointing to less than one season's worth of Austin spacing the floor to an acceptable level and pretending that he's always done that. He was not even close to being a 40% three-point shooter when he signed his current contract and he still got big money anyway. I don't see you complaining about that.