Dominic Artis

Dominic Artis is essentially a 5th year senior playing in a mediocre conference with no upside potential given his age and experience.  So you have to look at what he does now and realize what you see is probably what you will get.  Given his age and experience, he should be absolutely crushing his competition but he is not.  He’s not a great shooter, and although he has a 7 assist per game average, he also gives up 4.5 turnovers per game.  He shoots about 32% from 3 and for an NBA PG in this era, that isn’t very good… unless you are NBA level in distributing, taking care of the ball, and defense which he is not.  He is actually a good defender, and has become more efficient in his shooting, but for a 5th year senior you would expect that.  He falls into that huge category of good callege player, but he is not NBA caliber.  

There is also the lawsuit against the University of Oregon, and the whole episode there.  That can’t help when NBA GMs are deciding who to use a draft pick on, or who to give a roster spot to.