On the bright side, he’s improved his free throw shooting, but if you take away his path to the rim and force him into a bad shot from that dead zone between layups and true midrange jumpers, get ready to get the defensive rebound Hardaway is hitting just 29.1 percent between 3 and 10 feet. Hardaway was a good finisher at the rim his first few years in the league, consistently getting the ball to the rack and finishing at a clip over 64 percent. Kristaps Porzingis isn’t going to fix that. Point is Hardaway can’t shoot and he can’t guard anyone but he’s being asked to shoulder the lead scoring load on that wretched Knicks team. Who would you rather have even if you gave Mitchell Hardaway’s contract and not the rookie deal Utah has him on?īut I digress. He’s got a woeful 1.4 steal percentage and can’t block shots even by guard standards, so the counting stats basically have him as a homeless man’s Donovan Mitchell, the difference being Mitchell’s in his second year in the league and emerging as a potential top-tier defender as scoring 2-guards go in Utah. Hardaway is putting up 20.8 points, 3.0 assists, and 3.4 rebounds as a pure volume scorer at the shooting guard position.īut he’s doing it while shooting 39.1 percent from the field, 35.4 percent from three, and even though his 7.8 three-point attempts per game are the most of his career and his percentage on them is better than his career average, he’s dropped off a cliff on two-point shots, posting the worst eFG% of his career. So in order to pass the Confirmed test, he’s gotta be at least as good as those guys.
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Thing is, New York’s not winning any playoff series anytime soon, and part of that is because Hardaway the Younger makes $17.3 million when he’s debatable at best as a player at that salary level.Īnd that’s the debate we’re going to address here in Is He Any Good this week.Ĥ years, $70 million or so is a little bit less than Myles Turner makes in Indiana, and other guys who make about what Hardaway does include Tristan Thompson, Reggie Jackson, Draymond Green, and Derrick Favors.
How odd then that the five-time All-Star’s namesake son, Tim Hardaway Jr., plays for the Knicks. Tim Hardaway was one of the most underrated players of the 1990s, lost in the shuffle because his Warriors teams in the early part of the decade never came close to matching up with the likes of Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Utah, San Antonio…man, the Western Conference was scary in the ’90s like it is now…Īnd his Miami Heat teams, as good as the ’97 edition of the squad was, got pantsed by Michael Jordan and the Bulls, bowed out to Jeff Van Gundy’s Knicks in 1998, ’99, and 2000, and that was it for the title window.
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