Jason Terry has been so bad this season. Every time he checks into the game and proceeds to do absolutely nothing except sometimes brick threes and always get blown by, I wonder why the heck it’s not Rashad Vaughn out there instead. It’s absolutely baffling: before tonight he had appeared in 18 games, averaging ONE point. If you’re a believer in rate-based statistics, that bumps him up to a blistering FOUR per 36 minutes. On 11 percent shooting from three, I might add. Vaughn might suck or he might be finally playable now, but we’ll never know with this corpse out here playing minutes that he absolutely does not deserve even a little bit.
If you think I’m being a little harsh, why don’t you try watching him do nothing the whole season while a promising first-rounder rots on the bench. I half-thought that he would abruptly retire once Jason Kidd was fired; I think Kidd is the only reason Terry’s even still in the league. Nope. I also thought that maybe he wouldn’t get minutes anymore under the new coach. Also nope.
He just bought himself like 10 more games of minutes with this performance. 12 points, 4 threes, an absolute scoring bonanza for him. The first time all season where I wasn’t pissed off to see him on the court. Congratulations dude, you had a great career, now can you just go away and be an assistant coach somewhere please?