NBA Free Agency 2017 Player Profile: Justin Holiday

Weaknesses

Holiday can do all sorts of things pretty well. He knocks down a healthy percentage of both his two and three-point shot attempts, he plays defense at a pretty high level, and he grabs a lot of boards for his size.

Unfortunately, in a league where overwhelming traits tend to stick out, Holiday hasn’t been able to demonstrate one yet. He’s a good defender and the metrics bear that out, but he’s not known as a lockdown guy on that end, at least not yet.

He’s a capable three-point shooter, but 35.5 percent is right around average, if a little bit above it. Holiday did take a lot of threes with the Knicks, but his percentage dropped harshly from the 43.3 percent of his triples he hit in his time with the Chicago Bulls.

Justin Holiday might just be a limited player. That’s fine — role players exist in the NBA for a reason. Not everybody can be a star. There is a chance he would find more success in a larger role — namely, that of a starter–going forward. That’s far from a sure thing, but a team thinking that would alter Holiday’s potential salary a lot this summer.