One of the all-time great talents to roll through UNT — at least as far as basketball goes — started his season tonight.
Tony Mitchell and the Detroit Pistons are playing the Denver Nuggets as we speak. Mitchell hasn’t gotten into the game. It should be interesting to see if he gets more of an opportunity to play this season.
He barely got off the bench last year.
Mitchell is getting to the point where it would really help him if he could start to show something and work his way into the Pistons’ rotation. He’s stuck behind Andre Drummond and Jonas Jerebko at this point.
Mitchell is a good guy. You just hope it works out for him.
Mitchell took a bit of an undeserved beating at UNT after not showing a big motor at times. If he was a perfect prospect, he wouldn’t have ended up at UNT in the first place. It’s just the nature of mid-major basketball, football or just about any other kind of ball.
If he was a perfect prospect, he would have ended up at Duke or North Carolina.
Hopefully, Mitchell has gotten past some of his issues with the Pistons and will start to capitalize on his potential.