Myles Turner is a verified scoring beast. You know how on Twitter, verified users get a little blue checkmark next to their name so that you know their opinions are more important than your opinions? Myles Turner has the blue checkmark of being a verified scorer, except the checkmark only exists in my proprietary database of NBA players that I use to make highlights-related decisions.
The process for becoming a DTB-verified scorer is simple: if I am wowed by a player’s scoring prowess, I’ll check their shot chart on basketball-reference. If the shot chart is sufficiently green, and is green in enough areas of the court, then that player becomes verified. Turner has no problem scoring on drives, post-ups, midrange jimbos, three-pointers, and alley-oops, so he is clearly a skilled enough scorer to earn verification status.
Now the question is, since Myles Turner is a verified scoring beast (verified by DTB’s exacting methods), why does he only have two twenty-point games this season, the other one being the season opener? Does Nate McMillan hate his guts or do his teammates hate his guts? The Pacers have this problem where they have a bunch of guys who are jockeying to be the number one option with Oladipo out, and none of them are better enough that the rest to establish themselves as such. Turner could theoretically be that number one option too, but Brogdon, Warren, Lamb, and Sabonis are all attempting way more shots than Turner.
The only option to ensure the success of Turner’s career is to trade him to the Bucks for Thon Maker. That way he can win a championship as long as the trade isn’t voided when the league realizes that Thon wasn’t on the Bucks anymore and therefore could not be traded by the Bucks to another team.