Possible… but he’s a pretty selfless player. Sometimes you just naturally gravitate toward playing within your game.
If Hamilton did give the red light… I don’t really see CTB changing that.
A few (okay, several) random thoughts:
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Thanks for all this!
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Agree with your takeaway, offensively. It really depends on how we use him. As a hopeless optimist, I am hoping we can get him to take about 50-75 threes and shoot around 30%. That would mitigate some of the spacing issues. But there is admittedly not much evidence for this hope.
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His on-ball defense should be a real plus. He can stop penetration. He can close out out very well. He can switch onto bigger guys (which also means that playing him 1-3 on defense won’t be a problem.
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You didn’t dwell on this but there will be a “reprogramming” issue. He will default to switching everything when he starts going on instinct. He might have similar early season issues to Minor, where it takes some time to get used to the new wiring. Hopefully we let him find his way, rather than do the “Rohde knows where he is supposed to be and is there all the time, even though he can’t affect the offense much when he is there, because he is not a good athlete and he’s paper thin” thing.
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Seeing the transition section mostly makes me viscerally angry at our lack of transition this past year. [Deleted rant about how Tony dishonored James Naismith’s game by not pressing or playing more in transition last year. You’re welcome, LRA]. I mean the whole gamut – attacking before the defense is set (DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT? ATTACKING BEFORE THE DEFENSE IS SET? CUZ I DON’T. THANKS TONY. I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT ATTACKING AN UNSET DEFENSE IS EVEN LIKE.), pressing opportunistically, etc.
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You touched on something interesting. He’s super athletic moving around on the court. And you see it on offense and defense. He covers a lot of ground quickly with deceptive start/stop speed that really helps on bothe ends. But he’s mediocre athletically vertically. He doesn’t jump well, he doesn’t jump quickly, and he doesn’t seem to jump that high. He doesn’t anticipate well (that’s why he’s a bad rebounder). Which was un underrated Ryan Dunn skill – long arms, high jumper, fast jumper, and great anticipation.
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One last process point on these Youtube heavy videos. I know you commented on this on twitter, but basically, at least on Chrome on a Mac, the videos never stayed at the correct time. I reset my cache, cookies, yada yada, and the same thing kept happening. I had to find the timestamp and go find the clips fast, before I forgot the timestamp. I wonder if you’d be better off just linking the youtube video once, and just giving timestamps in the narrative (this would also help with not crashing on mobile). I hate to whine about this stuff, because this is clearly a labor of love, and you do awesome work, but I wonder if folks aren’t engaging with it as much as they would otherwise, because it’s kind of a slog to deal with the videos. As always, it could just be a “me” issue.
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Hey, that was you on twitter? Haha. Hello.
Thanks for the feedback as always - I don’t think his reprogramming will be as extreme as Minor’s because of the style, but it’ll definitely be there. He’s a very alert/smart player, though.
Athletic laterally but not vertically is probably the second biggest takeaway I’d impart behind “a true PG, not a 2-3” - so it’s a good call out.
Yeah, I ran into issues with Youtube cookies more this time than ever. Had to clear my cache a ton. I don’t remember that happening the year prior - but I did hear that some of the videos were pulling incorrectly. I reset my cookies and did determine that all of the source code was correct and all of the videos were pulling correctly… so, I’m not sure.
If anyone has ideas on how to make this easier to navigate re: source code from youtube, please feel free to ping me.
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Nah, wasn’t me, but I saw your comment. Thanks!
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Reading elsewhere that Jalen was spotted yesterday with a cast on his left wrist. Anyone have info on this?
Shoot i walked past him and rohde but was looking up so didnt see
That would not be ideal.
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Sounds like Warley’s injury isn’t too serious, will miss some important practice time but is expected back well before the opener.
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