StopitLeo wrote:It's really hard to evaluate given this is the first time he has gotten meaningful minutes with any regularity. As others have said, I think that his ultimate value is really going to depend on whether he make open 3s at a high percentage. He looks best when he's on the floor with Scottie and OG. At $4M he's perfectly adequate right now.
TBH, I think his dad's stupid tweets when he wasn't getting minutes as a rookie doomed him as far as Nurse was concerned. He's getting a fresh start with Darko.
The bolded is a flat-out myth that keeps being brought up on this board for some reason.
Flynn averaged 10/3/4 on 51 TS% in 25 MPG at the end of his rookie season. He started nearly half of our games in the second half of the season too. He was given ample opportunity and ended up having one very good month (13/4/5 on 56 TS% in April), but for as well as he played in those 15 games, he was just as bad in the rest (8/3/3 on 44 TS%) despite getting similar opportunity/minutes. In his sophomore year, he had multiple stretches where he was generally given 15 minutes per night over 2-3 weeks. He averaged 5/2/1 on 43 TS% in 13 MPG from mid-November to late December then 9/3/4 on 58 TS% in 23 MPG from early February to early March. He was really bad for a while then really productive for a while before an injury derailed the end of his season. Last season, Flynn had a stretch of 15 games where he averaged 5/2/2 on 43 TS% in 20 MPG from mid-December to mid-January then a stretch of 9 games where he averaged 3/1/2 on 45 TS% in 12 MPG from late January to mid-February. He rightfully found himself back in the doghouse from that point on as we were making a playoff push.
Outside of his ROTM award in 20/21 and a 4-game stretch in February/March of 2022 where he put up 16/4/6 on 70 TS% before being sidelined by an injury for a month, Flynn has just been downright awful for the majority of his NBA career. It's wild to me that people are taking an 8-game sample size – where he is averaging 13 MPG – to start this season as evidence that Nurse never actually gave him a chance to work through his mistakes.
I'm happy for him that he's producing the last few games and he would drastically improve our bench play if he can somewhat regularly hit open shots and give us solid defence, but he needs to do this consistently or he's going to find himself out of the league after this season. The reality is Flynn was supposed to be NBA-ready coming out of his 4-year college career, but he has never consistently shown that he belongs in the league as anything more than a 3rd string PG at best; his 13/4/5 per36 numbers on 49 TS% over ~150 career NBA games is a pretty large sample size that would have most late 1sts already out of the league.