Look it’s a rare bird. The fight though screen bird instead of dying on the screen and switching crap.
Well there's a history of a team with aging all time great with two stars in their prime suddenly finding a huge wing who was also freakishly athletic fall into their laps. That huge wing also had great anticipation on defense and was an elite pickpocket. Way to much to think that Theiro is going to have a Klaw like rookie year but damn a young Kawhii looked and played like this archetype
He was pretty elite in college. Great defensive player but he was a mid range guy and it worked for him then.
I meant his first year. He was 49/38/77 that first year. So what I meant was, if Adou can show some shooting in his first year as well, we’ll be golden.
oh yeah, i forgot the context for a minute. i don't think thiero is poised to have a leonard type rookie season, but i think it's in the realm of possibility that he could function like that year when we traded cook for ariza, and unexpected contributions from an athletic forward helped nudge us up a notch.
Some dumb rookie fouls so JJ pulled him. Have to continue to give minutes to see what you got before the trade deadline still Those are the mistakes you do with inexperience (unless your name is Rui lol)
Adou’s quickness seems to be getting even better as he gets minutes. The guy for his size can really move laterally …. and for any size because of the ground he covers.
This is what I keep saying, no need to trade for what we already have. 20+ a night and I would be starting him before too long to get the chemistry building. Barring a catastrophic event for OKC, no one is catching them in the regular season but we can beat them in a seven game series if we start preparing now. JJ appears to be seeing that as well.
I actually really like JJ as a coach and you can see that he makes moves based on performance for the most part, but it's frustrating that he didn't throw Thiero out there. Watching quick GUARDS blow by Rui and just out hustle/muscle, you have to see if Theiro can take that role. I guess it was a cup game but it was real frustrating seeing Gabe/Jake/Rui just out mactched out there when you had a dude that stuff wouldn't work with
