2017 NBA Manifesto
Patrick Mills
PG, 6’0, 185lbs, 28 years old, 8 years of experience
Given the opportunity to be The Man at guard in the postseason after Parker’s injury, and particularly so after Kawhi’s, Mills couldn’t do it. The regular season was a typically Millsian bag of rangy unafraid shooting, plenty of running off of the ball around curls, dropping tear-drops, and a reasonably heady floor game when the time comes to play more on the ball, interspersed with little defence, But the postseason showed that Mills cannot do much more than that, and is a super back-up not a budding starter. If some team wants to pay starter’s money to him based on his age and usefulness, then let them - albeit with a wildly different playing style, Murray can fill the minutes.
Player Plan: Entering free agency off of a $3,578,948 contract, and would probably like to at least double it with an MLE sized deal somewhere. Which is fair enough - this will likely be his biggest pay day. But Mills cannot take the starting point guard spot, as opposed to others who can on the market (e.g. a return for George Hill), so he is only worth retaining if those pursuits strike out.
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PG, 6’0, 185lbs, 28 years old, 8 years of experience
Given the opportunity to be The Man at guard in the postseason after Parker’s injury, and particularly so after Kawhi’s, Mills couldn’t do it. The regular season was a typically Millsian bag of rangy unafraid shooting, plenty of running off of the ball around curls, dropping tear-drops, and a reasonably heady floor game when the time comes to play more on the ball, interspersed with little defence, But the postseason showed that Mills cannot do much more than that, and is a super back-up not a budding starter. If some team wants to pay starter’s money to him based on his age and usefulness, then let them - albeit with a wildly different playing style, Murray can fill the minutes.
Player Plan: Entering free agency off of a $3,578,948 contract, and would probably like to at least double it with an MLE sized deal somewhere. Which is fair enough - this will likely be his biggest pay day. But Mills cannot take the starting point guard spot, as opposed to others who can on the market (e.g. a return for George Hill), so he is only worth retaining if those pursuits strike out.
