T-Ferg was drafted in 2017, and in his rookie season, he started 12 games for us shortly before the All-Star break due to an Andre Roberson injury. He then proceeded to be our main starting SG in 2018-19 (due to another Roberson injury), starting all 74 games that he played in, and then started 38 games at SG/SF the following year.
In the 2018-19 season, started 74 games, averaging 26 minutes and only 6.9 points on 43/37/73 splits. It’s a pretty bad season, but for throwing a 20 year old in the starting lineup, who clearly did not expect to do so, it’s understandable.
The next season (the bubble year) was somehow way worse. Ferg started 38 of his 56 games, averaging 22 minutes. But that year, he averaged just 3.9 points on 36/29/75 splits.
Player Efficiency Rating (PER) isn’t a perfect stat, but it does a decent enough job at giving a rough estimate of which players are better than others. Ferg’s PER in the 2019-20 season was 3.7. To give you some perspective, that is the second worst PER season of all time from someone who started at least 38 games, ahead of only Jason Collins whose 2006-07 season with the New Jersey Nets gave him a 3.0 PER rating.
Ferg’s 2018-19 season is also the 15th worst with the same parameters with a 6.4 PER.
This really goes to show that we probably would have at least escaped the first round in 2018-19 had Roberson not gone down.
Ferguson ended up getting shipped off to Philly in a deal that got us Vasilije Micic and a 2025 first, so ultimately he had some positive return for us, but it doesn’t outweigh the absolute putridity of his play on the court.