Ranking the 5 worst Pistons starters of the Grant Hill era
Ranking the 5 worst Pistons starters of the Grant Hill era
#3: Terry Mills, 1999-2000
Terry Mills had some very good seasons for the Detroit Pistons, but this one was in his second stint with the team when he was 32-years-old and near the end of his career. This was a running theme during the Hill era, as the team kept trying to patch holes with veterans around their young star.
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Mills averaged just 6.7 points and 4.8 rebounds in 78 starts, and was largely reduced to a guy who stood at the 3-point line and didn’t do much else. Mills looked more and more like George Foreman in this era, and moved about as well.
He did shoot 39 percent from 3-point range that season but only 43 percent overall, so most of his damage came from behind the arc.
Mills was a bit ahead of his time in that regard, but by the time Hill’s final season rolled around, he was limited as a player. The team won 42 games but got bounced from the first round again, just before Hill hit free agency, which prompted the sign-and-trade that brought in Wallace.