Tremendous Upside
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Thoughts:
- It's hilarious that Lauri is suddenly getting a star whistle. I love the NBA. I promise you he wouldn't have gone to the line on half of those plays last season, as some were really borderline fouls. Not complaining though. A point is a point. He's getting the benefit of the doubt now, and he's earned it.
- Other than that, tough game for LM. Our spacing absolutely sucked so Lauri was met with a wall of meat every time he did one of his curls. The Magic were even able to direct him away from the basket when he received the ball, and in those situations I'd like Hardy to design hi-lo actions where Lauri could do a drop pass to a center right under the basket, with the attention of the interior defense at the FT line area. Now we just kind of stood around and he was forced to pass it back out. It shouldn't be that easy to take away the curl. But as I said... bad spacing is the main culprit.
- I love Kessler.
- I've been squinting hard and trying to like NAW at the PG position because we have so few options there, but I just can't. He's a terrible ballhandler at that spot. I never feel like the rock is safe with him. He's also the type of guy who will swish three rainbow perimeter shots in a row and airball the next three. You never know what you're going to get. I still don't really know what NAW is as a player - he's an awkward tweener in so many ways. Not sure he has any trade value but I can't see him as a future rotation player either.
- I know Ochai had nice +/- numbers and he definitely hustled, but man... he disappears completely out there. There were times I was shocked to realize he was on the court. Sure we're not passing him the ball at all, but still. He also plays very small for someone who's an extremely athletic 6'5'' with a big wingspan. He needs to become much more effective on the "D" part of 3&D to really stick in this league.
- Sexton. That dude is all heart. Sure his shot selection was somewhat questionable at times, but IMO we absolutely need this guy off the bench. Trading him would be a terrible decision. This would have been a loss without Collin.
- It's hilarious that Lauri is suddenly getting a star whistle. I love the NBA. I promise you he wouldn't have gone to the line on half of those plays last season, as some were really borderline fouls. Not complaining though. A point is a point. He's getting the benefit of the doubt now, and he's earned it.
- Other than that, tough game for LM. Our spacing absolutely sucked so Lauri was met with a wall of meat every time he did one of his curls. The Magic were even able to direct him away from the basket when he received the ball, and in those situations I'd like Hardy to design hi-lo actions where Lauri could do a drop pass to a center right under the basket, with the attention of the interior defense at the FT line area. Now we just kind of stood around and he was forced to pass it back out. It shouldn't be that easy to take away the curl. But as I said... bad spacing is the main culprit.
- I love Kessler.
- I've been squinting hard and trying to like NAW at the PG position because we have so few options there, but I just can't. He's a terrible ballhandler at that spot. I never feel like the rock is safe with him. He's also the type of guy who will swish three rainbow perimeter shots in a row and airball the next three. You never know what you're going to get. I still don't really know what NAW is as a player - he's an awkward tweener in so many ways. Not sure he has any trade value but I can't see him as a future rotation player either.
- I know Ochai had nice +/- numbers and he definitely hustled, but man... he disappears completely out there. There were times I was shocked to realize he was on the court. Sure we're not passing him the ball at all, but still. He also plays very small for someone who's an extremely athletic 6'5'' with a big wingspan. He needs to become much more effective on the "D" part of 3&D to really stick in this league.
- Sexton. That dude is all heart. Sure his shot selection was somewhat questionable at times, but IMO we absolutely need this guy off the bench. Trading him would be a terrible decision. This would have been a loss without Collin.
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