Ask a dozen NBA experts their thoughts on Orlando Magic free agent Tobias Harris, and you might hear a dozen different opinions.
Harris' statistics—underrated to some, empty production to others—promised to make his venture into restricted free agency a captivating one. But the arrival of his former coach, new Orlando frontman Scott Skiles, exponentially increased the intrigue.
Harris and Skiles have history. The former played the first season-and-a-half of his NBA career under the latter when both were with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Actually, that's not the best way to describe what Harris did under Skiles. He was more of an observer than anything in Milwaukee.
Skiles buried Harris at the end of the bench while splitting the small forward minutes between veterans. The rationale was pretty simple, at least in Skiles' mind. He went with the guys who gave his club the best chance to win.
"What we were trying to do in Milwaukee at that point was not necessarily our No. 1 priority was to develop the guys," Skiles said, via Orlando Magic Daily's Philip Rossman-Reich. "It was to win. That was the ...
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Scott Skiles’ Arrival Fuels Tobias Harris’ Fascinating 2015 Free-Agent Case
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