williams was the second choice in the draft, was he not? he has physical ability, something lacking on the celtics. so far CBS has done wonders with crawford and turner.
He is a tweener, PF skillset in a SF body.
Way too many Minnesota possessions ended with Williams catching the ball after one action, holding it 20 feet from the hoop with a dozen or more ticks left on the shot clock, and then engaging in some very sad series of jab steps and crossover dribbles before launching a horrific step-back jumper. Watching Adelman’s reactions to these shots became the game-within-a-game for League Pass addicts and/or folks who enjoy coaches acting out their misery in hilariously grandiose pouty gestures.
“He has to make better decisions,” Saunders says. “And he has to make quicker decisions.”
Williams has struggled to create anything in Adelman’s system. He’ll occasionally blow by overmatched power forwards on dribble drives and break out a crafty finish,3 but it’s unclear if he can do that against small forwards, and he’s flirting with very bad territory as a non-passer. He dished only 84 assists combined in two seasons, and last season, Williams became only the 12th player in the 3-point era to assist on fewer than 5 percent of his team’s buckets while using up at least 23 percent of Minnesota’s possessions with a shot, turnover, or drawn foul. Most players in this group are low-post finishers; Eddy Curry and Amar’e Stoudemire alone account for seven of the 19 player seasons on the list.
Williams is not a low-post finisher, and we’ve seen almost zero evidence he can work as an effective outside-in creator. There’s nothing wrong with being a stretch power forward off the bench; Harrington became a very effective one in Denver once he learned to either shoot open 3s or drive hard to the rim — and to make the choice right away, decisively.
The downside of playing Williams at power forward: He’s too small, at 6-foot-8 with a 7-1 wingspan, to defend the rim. Williams isn’t really a bad defender; he understands team schemes and help responsibilities, and he’s shown good balance in being able to rush out a shooter, stop on a dime if that shooter pump-fakes, and stay shoulder-to-shoulder with that shooter on a drive to the rim.4 But he has no shot in the post against the league’s back-to-the-basket behemoths, and he provides zero deterrent as a help defender at the basket.
http://grantland.com/features/derrick-williams-jimmer-fredette-more-nba-make-break-players/When a guy has a career average of 9 PPG he is not playing like a second pick. He is a career .43% shooter, he only shoots 31% from the three point line. For being such a great athlete he averages 4 RPG a game, he is an inefficient scorer. I would think this, even if he was a the tenth pick. He does not produce assists or other stats .06 APG career average. .05 SPG, .03 BPG all these with a 20 MPG average. His D is average. He has a few productive games at the end when other teams were tanking. Who cares if he was the 2nd pick, he does not play like one. He is a poor shooter outside of 8-10 feet. Sam Bowie was a higher pick than Jordan and we all know how that went!
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/6480/derrick-williamsA change of scenery from MIN to SAC didn't salvage him either,
if your looking for a bench guy then he is fine. But he has not demonstrated at the NBA level that he can be an effective starter. Not unless you like a guy shooting in the low 40% and can't shoot well outside of 8 feet.
I think
CBS deserves better than these retreads. We as fans deserve better than this, Ainge said the rebuilding was over. That means we need to add good talent from this point on. Not hope that a bust turns his career around here.
Read this
http://isportsweb.com/2014/02/24/derrick-williams-struggles-pros/One year later, same old Derrick. He is 23, but he lacks a position and his shooting range is limited. That played well in the NCAA as he is a good athlete but a lot of pros are good athletes.
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