Guerschon Yabusele joined the New York Knicks, and instantly got billed as the steal of the summer. Fewer than 15 games into the regular season, though, he’s already fighting for his job.
For much of the year, Yabusele has vacillated between disappointing, and utterly unplayable. He has helped the Knicks setting screens, and on the offensive glass. But the defense isn’t up to snuff, and he’s shooting under 26 percent from three.
The latter is particularly damning when so much of Yabusele’s appeal was rooted in conceptual floor-spacing. Shooting so poorly from three becomes an even bigger issue considering how much time he’s logging at power forward.