OKC Thunder Draft Prospect Profile Matisse Thybulle: Are promises meant to be broken?
By Rylan Stiles
Despite what it seems like in your subconscious of past OKC Thunder draft picks and “Presti Guys” Matisse Thybulle is not an offensive liability, or at least he was not in college.
Thybulle can make his free throws so you can not play him off the floor, rather hack him off the floor, the way teams could do with Andre Roberson. Beyond that Thybulle is a decent 3-point shooter with the shooting form (yes, that is important) and potential to improve in the NBA Ranks as he gets better coaching, more time to grow, and floor spacing.
He is not a ball stopper or a ball panicker. Thybulle is just a smart basketball player. He makes the right play on both ends of the floor. Often times an offense has a ball stopper where the ball just goes to die, get dribbled into the hardwood until it dents the floor or jack up a bad shot.
On the flip side, offenses have Ball Panickers guys who are deathly afraid of the basketball and do not want to touch the rock without a clear move to be made (catch and shoot, lay up on a back cut) they can not hold onto the ball without freaking out and trying to force it back to the offensive focal point often times resulting in a turnover. Thybulle is neither of these which in itself can bolster the Oklahoma City Offense.