Dez wrote:GoBlue72391 wrote:Dez wrote:
It's his second season, calm down.
He asked and I gave my opinion, calm down. You don't get a lot of time or chances in the NBA. It might seem too soon, but his window is starting to close.
His career is dependent on his shot. With one he'll be a rotation player, without one he'll be a Shaq Harrison-esque end of the bench filler.
And I've always been one of the few who like Dalen Terry since he was drafted.
Ayo didn't develop his shot until his third season and he's 24 years old, Terry is 21 in his second season.
He's got plenty of time.
He has at most two years. Whether that is plenty of time remains to be seen. Might be, might not be. But the current evidence is not good. He doesn’t have a shot nor does he have any signature NBA skill to offset that.
Plus the analogy is poor. Ayo shot .376 from 3 as a rookie, had a down shooting second season, and then got his shot back and improved it in year 3. It didn’t appear out of nowhere this year. He also had a shot in college at .390 from 3 (on lower volume) and scored 20 ppg his final year. People forget or never knew, but Ayo was a scoring machine in what was at the time a ridiculously loaded Big 10. One of the leading scorers in the nation against extremely good defense.
Terry has never had an NBA shot and is averaging .247 from 3 in the NBA on limited volume with virtually every shot being a completely uncontested 3. And he has no other scoring game as an alternative. And he was never a scorer in college (8 ppg his final year, which was his most), let alone a scoring machine like Ayo.
Terry might make it. But using his first two years as the predictor, it’s not very likely.