Delon Wright

Delon Wright
PG, 6’5, 183lbs, 25 years old, 2 years of experience

Partly due to injury and partly due to rotational decisions, Wright has only played 54 games and 775 minutes in two seasons, many of which have been garbage time, and yet he has been very good in them. The defensive end is his best end, and he blocks and deflects like the wing defensive specialist that he isn’t. Big for a point, Wright is a pest on that end already, and now needs his offence to catch up.

Player Plan: Two years of rookie scale salary remaining. Could make Joseph expendable for value down the road, but does not seem likely to win the spot outright.

[...] DeMarre Carroll and Jonas Valanciunas are not drawing much defensive respect outside of the paint, while Patrick Patterson is not making enough shots this season to capitalise. Although somewhat effective, backup point guard Cory Joseph is not the scoring counterpart of DeRozan in the same way Lowry is, while Delon Wright and Fred VanVleet are not NBA calibre primary playmakers at this time. And while Serge Ibaka has become one of the better stretch bigs in the game, he is not creating looks with or without the ball so much as just taking what crops up. DeRozan is at his best as the first or second scoring option in a two-option line-up, but without Lowry, Toronto has thus far only had one.[...]