Douglas transferred to the Florida State University for the remainder of his collegiate career, where he switched to the Point Guard position—after forgoing eligibility for a season because of college basketball transfer regulations.
In his sophomore season, Douglas initially struggled in his transition to a new team and position, but soon resumed a high level of play, overcoming a hand injury in the middle of the season. He emerged as a defensive force in his junior season, setting school and conference records for steals. Douglas stepped up as a team leader in his final season; he broke personal records in several statistical categories and helped lead the Seminoles to their first National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA tournament in 11 years.
He attended Jonesboro High School , where he was starter for its basketball team for three years. Douglas played alongside his brother, Harry, for the same amount of time. He spent most of his freshman season —01 on the junior varsity team. In his junior season, Douglas averaged He was named the Georgia Class 5A Player of the Year, and helped lead the team to the championship game of the state playoffs.
Douglas averaged 34 ppg in his senior season, and the team advanced as far as the state semifinals. When he graduated from high school in , Douglas was Clayton County's leading scorer, with 2, points. Douglas committed to Auburn University during his junior year in high school. Douglas submitted his name for the NBA Draft in the offseason , but did not sign with an agent , therefore allowing him to stay eligible for college when he later withdrew from the process.
Douglas wanted to be the team's Point Guard , which he believed was his more natural position and the one he would play in the NBA. However, the Tigers Auburn's mascot did not accede to his request, prompting him to request a transfer. Then-coach Jeff Lebo granted Douglas his scholarship release on the condition that he transfer to a non-SEC university. Douglas initially struggled at the point guard position while adjusting to the Florida State offense, but continued to play well in other respects.
On February 7, , Douglas injured the fourth metacarpal in his right shooting hand, forcing him to sit out six games nearly a month —of which Florida State lost five. In Douglas' junior season, he continued his transition to point guard, which includes creating offensive opportunities for others on the team in addition to scoring by himself. Although Douglas still needed to work on that aspect of his game, Hamilton said in January that "he's done an exceptional job when you take into consideration this hasn't been his role prior to coming to Florida State.
The —09 Florida State team was composed of mostly freshman and sophomores, which meant that the veteran Douglas, now a senior one of three on the team , [15] featured more prominently in the offense than in the previous years. He started all 35 games of the season, one of two Seminole players to do so. Douglas became the primary threat on offense, and was the sole top scorer for the team in 23 games. His scoring average increased by more than six points, to Douglas played well, scoring 26 points, but he missed an important three-point attempt late in the game and had Trevon Hughes score the winning shot while defending him.
But that doesn't make him any less of an impact defender, or—this season's aberration exempted—any less of a proficient outside shooter. It's just a bit baffling that we can dole out deserved praise to Boston 's Avery Bradley—a similarly skilled and limited player in many ways—in one minute before laughing at Douglas the next; the two are hardly identical, but the degree to which context is being ignored with Douglas is astounding.
One franchise has instilled confidence in a young player through effective coaching, strong internal leadership and successful role allocation, while the other has relegated its up-and-coming defender to the bench at the first sign of trouble, simply because he couldn't make sense of a seemingly unsolvable offensive logjam. It would take a particular savvy to untangle the spacing and distribution issues that complicate the Carmelo Anthony -Amar'e Stoudemire-Tyson Chandler triumvirate, a quandary is clearly beyond Douglas' pay grade.
I'm just not so sure that a problem beyond the reach of what—for Douglas—is a supplementary skill should be so obtusely held against him. Here are a few more international tidbits, all courtesy of Sportando:.
The Bucks are hosting a free agent mini-camp on Tuesday and Wednesday this week as they look to fill out their training camp roster and identify candidates to play for their G League affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd, according to Matt Velazquez of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The mini-camp, which will give the club a chance to evaluate possible camp invitees, includes a handful of notable names among its 16 participants. Former lottery picks Trey Burke and Hasheem Thabeet are among the first-rounders who will be in attendance at the mini-camp, as Velazquez details. Still, two of those roster players — Gary Payton II and JeQuan Lewis — are on non-guaranteed contracts, so Milwaukee has some flexibility if it wants to make changes at the back of its roster.
Any player that signs with the Bucks figures to get a minimum salary deal that is non-guaranteed or features a very modest guarantee, since the Bucks are currently slightly above the luxury tax line.
To make room, the club will waive Toney Douglas. In three games for the Pelicans, all starts, Selden averaged The forward signed with the club in July but was one of the final roster cuts in training camp. Having already signed him to two day deals, the team needed to sign him through at least the remainder of the season.
The point guard saw regular minutes in Memphis over the last few weeks. He averaged 5. Nonetheless, all indications suggest that — barring a trade — Memphis intends to sign Douglas for the rest of the season when his current deal expires, according to Michael Wallace of Grizzlies.
The veteran point guard, who turns 31 next month, has averaged 5. As Wallace notes, a few weeks ago, the Grizzlies were in need of a reliable backup point guard and an athletic rim protector off the bench. Then- New York Knicks starting point guard Chauncey Billups goes down with a knee injury that would sideline him the rest of the postseason.
Billups is released, a casualty of the new amnesty clause packaged in the collective bargaining agreement, and would leave the Knicks roster without a legitimate point guard.
Both instances resulted in failure for the Knicks, in large part due to his play, and Toney Douglas was banished to the bench with the emergence of Jeremy Lin. Sure, both these situations put Douglas in a much larger role than the Knicks are asking him to be in now, but with Lin out for the foreseeable future isn't there a sizable amount of pressure on Douglas to help keep this team afloat?
Douglas has had some flashes of excellence in his tenure with the Knicks, but he seems to struggle when the pressure is on. With the only trustworthy point guard left being a banged-up Baron Davis , the Knicks will have to rely on Douglas to be able to spell the veteran point guard and the oft-injured rookie Iman Shumpert. And we've seen the way Douglas performed in the past when the Knicks have needed him most.
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