The Good and The Bad
| Season | G | MP | FG% | 3P% | eFG% | FT% | ORB | DRB | TRB | AST | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | 68 | 34.8 | .466 | .364 | .512 | .788 | 1.1 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 17.1 |
| Career | 226 | 26.5 | .463 | .321 | .497 | .790 | 1.2 | 4.3 | 5.5 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 12.7 |
Provided by Basketball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 6/8/2015.
Tobias Harris produced points. That is what he does. He scored 17.1 points per game, returning to the average he had in that surprising two-month run after the Magic acquired him.
Harris did not have the same kind of injury issues that plagued his first full year in a Magic uniform. This was full Harris doing what he does. And doing it slightly better than he did in that initial push in a Magic uniform.
The scoring numbers were great. His field goal percentage was up. His 3-point shooting drastically improved. He improved his offense and became more efficient. At small forward, Harris did what was asked of him.
The problems though persisted.
The offense tended to stick when the ball ended up in his hands. He had a 22.5 percent usage rate. That is not a horrible number, so he was not killing the offense. But the way Jacque Vaughn (and by extension James Borrego) ran their offense, it was to create isolation sets. That worked fine for Harris.
It was still difficult throughout the season to get a peg on Harris.
His rebounding was way down — 10.3 percent total rebound rate from 13.0 percent last season — probably a product of his move almost full time to small forward and away from power forward — Basketball-Reference said Harris played 72 percent of his minutes at small forward this year after spending 74 percent of his minutes at power forward last year.
Harris still does not seem to have a position. He still has issues defensively no matter where you put him. And he still seems better at creating his own offense rather than creating for others or having others create for him.
In other words, Harris had a good season individually and proved he would be worth whatever contract he gets. But it did not make determining his value any easier.
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