Another Tony Mitchell NBA Draft Profile

Harry · June 10, 2013

Intangibles

We already touched on this, but a lot of Mitchell’s red flags come from his production decrease and his effort issues. If these are problems in the NBA, Mitchell is doomed to failure. However, this can be somewhat explained. During his freshman season, coming off academic problems, Mitchell was a much more disciplined player under coach Johnny Jones. Jones left after last season to take over coaching duties at LSU and was replaced by Tony Benford, an assistant from Marquette who was in his first head coaching season. Jones was a very good coach and ran UNT at a fast pace and preached defense, as North Texas finished 26^th in the nation in defensive efficiency. Under Benford, the Mean Green fell apart offensively and defensively, finishing 260^th in offensive efficiency and 182^nd in defensive efficiency. I think this has something to do with Mitchell’s regression. And really, I don’t think this makes Mitchell as poor of a prospect as initially thought. It just puts him in a category with guys like Lance Stephenson, Zach Randolph, Latrell Sprewell and every other player that’s come down the pipe and needs a strong coach or set of teammates to guide him to be effective. Put Mitchell in the right situation, and he’ll be fine. Put him on Sacramento or Charlotte, and he’ll be a black hole.

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