Kendall Marshall

[tcorbin]

The Washington Wizards acquired Kendall Marshall, Shannon Brown and Malcolm Lee on Friday in a deal for Marcin Gortat.

The Wizards will waive those three players as they have a roster crunch.
Via Jeff Goodman/ESPN

Kendall Marshall's game hasn't really translated well in the NBA, but man, he still has enough talent, and gotten on a really cheap and flexible deal, could be a value pick up for the Hawks, especially for that 3rd PG spot, that Mack and Royal are fighting for.

[GrimeyKidd]

Mack has already won because ivey was waived. i would love to pick up shannon brown though

[MaceCase]

Marshall would be a duplication of Schroder's skill set and he's not exactly going to find minutes over him.

[theatlfan]

Always confounds me that we see posts here pushing for kids who so obviously failed in their transition to the NBA. Ferry likes potential so much that he leaves the two Cs he drafted overseas for a little more seasoning. Yet we're spending time discussing Marshall? Marshall was a 1st round pick by a team that ended up being one of the worst teams in the NBA - and they didn't even play him much. In fact, they thought so little of him that they traded one of their scant few tradeable assets for his replacement then ditched him as salary filler in the deal for another one of those assets.

Look, I think Marshall has potential, but I don't think Ferry will ever allow us to be in the position where taking on potential makes sense - at least not until well into the season. Ferry is a guy who thinks that the 8th seed is better than the 9th seed (which is better than the 10th, etc). Turning Potential into Production typically means you're taking on negative (-) wins while that transition happens which is something that Ferry seems to prefer that other teams take on - e.g., the teams in the Spanish League with Muscala and Nogueira. Once Ferry believes that a prospect is close enough that he wouldn't be a liability to getting wins, then Ferry will take his chance.

[parson]

^ Not sure you're not just having a bad day but I'll bite: isn't Marshall a better 3rd string PG than .... Shelvin Mack? If we're trying to win-now, isn't Marshall going to help us more than Mr. Mack?

Disclaimer: I really, really, REALLY don't like Mack.

[theatlfan]

^ Not sure you're not just having a bad day but I'll bite: isn't Marshall a better 3rd string PG than .... Shelvin Mack? If we're trying to win-now, isn't Marshall going to help us more than Mr. Mack?

Disclaimer: I really, really, REALLY don't like Mack.

I'm not a huge Mack supporter either, but the quick answer: no, even Mack is better than K Marshall.

I had a lengthier post here (my dog wanted to play and by the time I got back to this, the session reset and I lost my post), but there were 2 main points for this answer. First, when looking at the "advanced' stats, K Marshall's year was actually closer to Austin Rivers (a kid who some opined had the worst season in NBA history last season) than to S Mack (who was below average). So, yeah, I'm not saying that Mack has more positives in terms of production than Marshall, I saying that Mack has less negatives. A subtle difference to be sure, but a stark one as well.

The second, and probably the one easiest to argue, was this: PHX doesn't appear to be particularly interested in winning this year. The new GM has traded 3 of their 4 imminently tradeable assets and the haul has been primarily young players and future assets. Marshall was their lotto pick last year and is still young. I don't think they actually needed to include Marshall in the trade with WASH as salary filler (Gortat + Brown actually brought them above the $10M mark; Okafor's current salary sits <$15M - any wiggle room in there probably could have been able overcome with Lee alone) - yet they still opted to dump his salary. I mean, if PHX has no interest in developing their lotto pick a little over a year ago, then why should we?

[MaceCase]

Mack has at least proven that as a 3rd PG you needn't worry about your team completely falling apart in the limited minutes that he's out there. You're not going to gain anything but hey, at least he's steady even if it's steady crap. Marshall has yet to work his way up to even that point and this isn't the team that is going to take the time to see that he can.

Marshall isn't even your typical Spurs system PG, I don't think that out of the 10,000 guards that they've had behind Parker that they've ever featured an unathletic floor-general that can't shoot or score. Penetrators, defenders and shooters have usually been their bag. Either way, he's going to have some trouble making it in this league strictly as a "heady" guy given his limitations.

[parson]

I don't know if I've watched Marshall play one minute of pro ball but a UNC product who was known as a good true PG and was drafted in the lottery just seems promising, especially if he could be signed for free.

I guess I'll get the opinion of NBA scouts, if no one signs him.