NBA: 25 Worst Individual Seasons Of The 3-Point Era

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1990: Jeff Turner of the Orlando Magic shoots the ball during a game. Mandatory Credit: Ken Levine /Allsport /

38. Experience: 6th year, Vanderbilt. SF. 1991-92 Orlando Magic. Jeff Turner. 12. player

Jeff Turner was a big slow guy who at 6-foot-9 and 230 pounds was too small to be a center and too slow to be a power forward.

So it made sense, then, that in his third season with the Orlando Magic in 1991-92, they would try him out at the small forward spot. Wait, what?

Disastrous might be too kind.

Turner shot just 45 percent from the floor and couldn’t defend anyone while getting 42 starts for a team that regressed from 31 wins in its second season to just 21 in its third.

The payoff was that Orlando did get the No. 1 pick in the draft and took some guy named Shaquille O’Neal.

Turner’s per-game numbers:

Age	Pos	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
29	SF	75	42	21.2	3.0	6.7	.451	0.0	0.1	.125	.452	1.1	1.5	.693	3.3	1.2	0.3	0.2	1.4	3.1	7.1

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Generated 10/16/2015.

And his advanced statistics:

G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48
75	1591	7.2	.483	.016	.228	4.2	13.3	8.6	8.6	0.7	0.6	16.2	17.1	-1.0	0.8	-0.2	-0.005

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Generated 10/16/2015.

Turner was the 17th overall pick out of Vanderbilt by the New Jersey Nets in the 1984 NBA Draft and played three seasons with the Nets before spending two years in Italy.

He returned to the U.S. to sign with Orlando for its first season and remained with the Magic until being traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies in February 1996. He never played for the Grizzlies, being waived in March 1996 and retiring.

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