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Originally Posted by spreedom
I don't think PER is a very reliable way to evaluate defensive specialists. He's often matched up with the best scorers in the league... of course he's usually going to be outplayed. The key is that he makes his matchup work hard to get his points. He played the overwhelming majority of his minutes at the three and I think he's an All-Defense caliber player at that position.
Bottom line, I'm 100% in favor of giving Tucker a pretty big contract this summer (I'd go as high as $8M per I think, though I don't think I'd be thrilled about it) because he REALLY fills a need for us.
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You can also look at opponent PER and his best position is again SG, followed by PF. Probably has great size for the SG and exceptional quickness for the PF, but not really either against SFs.
I still like the guy, I just think he may be a better guard than forward.