Wing maneuvering
The Brooklyn Nets will bid farewell to DeMarre Carroll after two solid seasons and have agreed to terms to bring in wing Garrett Temple.
Both players are 33; both are streaky, but inconsistent, shooters, and both built their reputations as 3-and-D specialists.
Temple isn’t a big-time scorer and his playing time evaporated last season after he was traded from the Memphis Grizzlies to the LA Clippers at the February deadline.
Temple shot 34.1 percent on 3.5 3-point attempts per game last season, but that figure plummeted from 35.2 percent on 4.3 attempts per game with the Grizzlies to just 29.6 percent on 2.1 attempts a night in LA.
His playing time was far less with the Clippers (19.6 minutes per game) than it had been in Memphis (31.2 minutes a game).
Temple is smaller than Carroll and is not likely to be able to eat some minutes at the 4 the way Carroll was able to.
He also scores less and may be just as streaky as a shooter.
VERDICT: Downgrade