Tyreke was good in some areas too, just not the ones we needed to win games. What we really needed at the time was a PG who was better than Beno Udrih. Tyreke's best year (rookie), he was the 11th most accurate 3 point shooter on the team, and would be elsewhere for years before finally rising to 3-point mediocrity and matching Rubio's 3 point percentage. He was not a good floor general and didn't make assists at close to the rate of Sergio Rodriguez, though he did keep up with Beno, albeit with 44% more turnovers. Our anticipated triple-double machine failed for that reason, rarely enough getting 10 assists that he only got 3 TDs in his career, to Rubio's 5. We couldn't figure out how to really utilize that, and he didn't make the team a lot better. Rubio certainly has his flaws, but his career WS/48 is .101, and Evans' is .075.
There was, of course, another actual PG or two we were looking at around here, but Tyreke could manhandle Curry one on one, so the Maloofs laughed at GSW for getting stuck with him.