« Reply #95 on: May 01, 2021, 11:28:24 AM »
Porter shoots too many 3's, but his 2PT% is 51.4% and he is a respectable enough foul shooter at 76.8%. He has also shown pretty decent passing skills. Clearly has all sorts of off the court problems, but he is clearly a talented player and he is just 20 still (at least for a few more days).
His 2 point shooting is buoyed by strong rim finishing and his FT% isn't that good for a guard (think the average for guards is the early 80s in FT shooting). I think his main skills are on-ball scoring that can pressure the rim and draw fouls while being able to pass after drawing defensive attention from his drives, which has decent value on poor to average teams but gets less and less valuable the better his teammates are. Certainly an NBA player, but I'm not too sold on his path to stardom unless he explodes as a scorer or passer (or both) assuming he won't be adding off-ball skills like cutting, extra passing and defence.
Oh I don't think he will be a star, don't think anyone would think that. But I do think he'd be a pretty useful player on Boston's bench providing some scoring punch. I'd rather have the full Trade Exception, Theis, and Porter than Fournier. That was the better value play, imo. Of course, I never liked the Fournier trade without a follow-up trade of Smart (as they are only keeping 1 going forward).
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