Quote Originally Posted by tommy View Post
Im going to ignore that last sentence because the chances of Matt Hurt becoming “the next” greatest 15 or 20 players of all time is pretty much zero. Bird was so much more than a shooter.

But the thing about Hurt is that he’s actually not a guy you have to give some years to in order to see if he develops. You already know exactly what he is. A long stretch 4 with a deadly shooting stroke, who is subpar at pretty much everything else. That’s what youre getting out of him this year, next year, and any other year. Sure he could put on some more weight and maybe become a little more effective inside, but that’s never going to be his game. He is what he is and as a GM either you think that’s good enough to stick in the league and help you, or you don’t.
My only quibble with this post is that Hurt isn’t a “long stretch 4” at the NBA level. He is a “below-average length stretch 4”. But beyond that, I more or less agree. Hurt is much closer to his fully-realized ceiling than Williams.