Over the last ten games: 21 mpg 35.5% FG 1-16 (!) 3-pointers 1-2 FTs (in 8 games total!) 5 points, 2.2 rbs per game He's gone totally to shit! Is this just about the demotion from the starting lineup? Has he been injured?
Injury/bench.....hasn't been the same since either. He didn't really play that great off the bench last year so maybe he isn't good with that role.
I know +- isn't much of anything but I believe he has the highest on the team in the last 5 games that he has played. That is something at least. So imo it is mostly lack of minutes but that is to be expected as he is coming off injury. And yes, he definitely plays better as starter then bench guy.
He realized the was the only summer signing that seemed somewhat palatable. Subconsciously he decided he had to revert to mean and suck like the rest of the guys.
Olshey's acquisitions seem to follow a familiar pattern: he finds a cheap player in the scrapheap, they overperform, then they get over-paid, either by us or somebody else. Then their play regresses to the norm. See: Lopez, Robin Davis, Ed Aminu, Al-Farouq Harkless, Mo Meanwhile Mason Plumlee is still overperforming because he hasn't got paid yet.
Harkless is weird. He was actually the one re-sign that looked like a steal during the first two months because he added a real three-point shot. He was hovering around 37% through December. That, combined with solid defense, made him a valuable two-way player. But his shot has been trending downwards and has completely collapsed now. So now he, too, is starting to look like an overpay (though not an egregious one, at least).
