Coach Avery Johnson took the fall for trying to see if Jason Terry's considerable shooting skills would be better used by allowing him to stand on the 3-point line and wait for the ball to swing to him.

The trial run failed.

"My thinking coming into this season was to get him off the ball to take advantage of the way he can shoot the ball, but it just didn't work like we thought," Johnson said. "He's not that kind of a player. He's more than a scorer, than strictly just a shooter. And if you're more of a shooter than a stand-still shooter, you need the ball more."

Terry will split the ball-handling with Devin Harris. And it's not a temporary change.