Tony started out this year playing well. He was consistently putting up 9 to 11 ppg, all on drives and FTS. However, then teams realized that, "oh yeah, he's the guy who couldn't make a jumpshot if you gave him the same look four times in a row", so they started backing off of him and playing him for the drive. Then came the struggles, and the attempts to create for his teammates. He became totally ineffective, and even his finishing around the rim started to decrease in quality. In the games leading up to his injury, he was an absolute train wreck, and a big part of the bench's inconsistently and propensity for turnovers. With TA out of the lineup, the bench has been better, without question. This is because it just so happens that Gabe Pruitt is a lightning quick combo guard, with a jump shot, who doesn't turn the ball over every possession. I had high hopes for TA at the beginning of this season. I even predicted that he would be able to fill 75% of Posey's role, and put up the numbers he was putting up for the first month and half of the season for the entire year. Unfortunately, he has hit another one of his regression patches, where he systematically undoes any improvement he might have made to his game since his last regression period. He's had about 4 of them in his career. I don't want to wait around for number 5, so please, lets either say goodbye to Tony, or push him to the end of the bench and use him for spot minutes.
He can do good things, its just for every 1 good thing, he usually does two bad things. Usually. So maybe if we just use him for spot minutes we can get lucky from time to time and have him string together a bunch of good plays and then quickly pull him out before equilibrium is restored.
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