Here on Brooklyn Balling, I’ll try to recap the chaos that was the 2013-14 Nets season with a series of “Season Review” posts on the players, trades, and even coach that shaped how this year turned out. Jason Collins was last, and Marquis Teague is up next.
Brought over to the Nets in the January trade with the Bulls that sent Toko Shengalia to Chicago, Marquis Teague played just 21 games for the 2013-14 Brooklyn Nets, mostly absorbing garbage time minutes at the end of blowouts but even started the last game of the season. However, overall, he didn’t do a whole lot.
In his 21 games, Teague–the younger brother of the Hawks’ Jeff Teague–played 201 minutes, scoring a mere 62 points, which is good for around three points per game. He shot 42% from the field and did make three of his eight three-point attempts on the season, but outside of the occasional decent performance, looked like nothing more than an end-of-the-bench replacement who should only get playing time when a team is decimated by injury.
The moves to pick up Teague and ship away Tyshawn Taylor were made to give the Nets another high-performing college point guard whose talent never expressed itself properly in the NBA. In 67 games over the past two seasons with the Bulls–the team that drafted him in the first round in 2012–Teague never made much of an impact, so both teams figured a change of scenery was needed.
However noble the intentions, the trade didn’t really help the Nets or Teague that much. Teague is still under contract with the Nets, at least for now, through the next few seasons, so unless he’s traded yet again this summer, he’ll be back on the Brooklyn bench for the 2014-15 season, regardless of how little a role he may hold with the team.
The success he experienced in college with Kentucky has yet to be replicated for him in the NBA, and it may never be. Looks like the Teague trade may have been one of a few major flops Billy King has had thus far in his Nets tenure.
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