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John Hollinger wrote this today about Nick Young on ESPN.com

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Scouting report + Scoring guard who excels in catch-and-shoot. Can get jumper off over anyone. + Tall for a 2 and decent athlete, but an underachieving defender. Bad rebounder. + Has weak handle and rarely takes more than one dribble. Passes even less often. Analysis You can't score an emptier 20 than this guy. A neat summary of the Nick Young Experience is that he averaged better than a point every two minutes and still finished with a player efficiency rating well below the league average. Let's just say the non-scoring categories are a bit wanting. Out of 67 small forwards, Young was 66th in assist ratio, 66th in rebound rate, and 61st in pure point rating. Young's assist ratio was the worst of any player with a usage rate over 15. Young doesn't get to the basket much, but he definitely can stroke it. He made 36.5 percent of his 3s and 44.6 percent of his 2s beyond 16 feet. However, he has a poor short-to-midrange game (26.3%) and averaged less than a field goal per game at the rim. As a result, his true shooting percentage was ordinary. Defensively, Young has some ability, but his focus comes and goes and some of the bigger 3s can overpower him. He wasn't particularly bad, but his metrics were slightly negative across the board. Additionally, his inability to rebound remains baffling considering his leaping ability. Young had a worse rebound rate than Luke Ridnour, Derek Fisher, Chris Duhon and Nate Robinson, among others, which is just embarrassing.

Hollinger's write up on Jason Terry from a couple days ago

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Scouting report + Fast combo guard with deadly midrange jump shot, especially going right. + Not a true point guard but capable of creating off the dribble. Abysmal rebounder. + Lacks size and strength on defense but has fast hands. Better in cross-matches. Analysis Terry has become an ageless wonder, still putting up numbers as an undersized 2-guard thanks to his devastating accuracy with the jump shot. Terry shot 42.1 percent on 2s beyond 10 feet and 37.8 percent on 3s, with the latter accounting for nearly half of his shots. As a result, he averaged nearly a point every two minutes with a solid TS% even though he virtually never gets to the rim. The biggest negative, offensively, is that Terry's turnover ratio keeps climbing. A jump shooter shouldn't be in the bottom half of shooting guards in turnover ratio, but Terry was last season. Fewest Fouls Per 40 minutes, 2011-12 Player Team Fouls/40 min. Steve Nash Phx 1.08 Jason Terry Dal 1.38 Joe Johnson Atl 1.41 Tayshaun Prince Det 1.48 Brandon Rush GS 1.49 Min. 500 minutes Nonetheless, his primary shortcoming is at the defensive end. Terry has to cross-match defensively and check the opposing point guard, but quicker players can get by him and bigger ones play right over the top. His rebound rates are among the worst in basketball, although he doesn't foul -- only Steve Nash was whistled less often last season (see chart). Boston's personnel should allow Terry to keep cross-matching, and if so he'll continue to be very effective in his sixth man role.