Wolves vs Suns GDT

[Q-is-here]

I don't mind some degree of ball stopping/iso offense even though it may not be aesthetically pleasing. At the end of the day, is it effective? In Ant and Jaylen's case, the answer is not really so far this season. I'm all for having everyone else stand around and just watch sometimes if the end result is a bucket or trip to the foul line. But it's pretty corrosive to an offense when the ball isn't going in and open guys are ignored.

[Lipoli390]

Great info, Kek...please keep it coming. I was disappointed in Rudy's hands last night, but in addition to his superior defense inside, I was pleasantly surprised to see how quickly he jumped out to the perimeter a couple times to contest threes. You're correct...he's everything we thought we were getting on defense, and maybe more. Now we just need to find a way to utilize his screens and rolls to the basket a little more. Better hands would help.

Oh, and thanks for the info on wide open threes too...not what I would have expected!

To paraphrase Mike Ditka, Gobert is who I thought he was. He's an excellent interior defender and rebounder. He's no better or worse on that end. On the offensive end, he's a very good screen setter, but he has terrible hands and no shot more than a foot from the basket. He's always had bad hands and he's always just been a dunker. He's a terrific player, but not a terrific fit for this team in my view.

[FNG]

Great info, Kek...please keep it coming. I was disappointed in Rudy's hands last night, but in addition to his superior defense inside, I was pleasantly surprised to see how quickly he jumped out to the perimeter a couple times to contest threes. You're correct...he's everything we thought we were getting on defense, and maybe more. Now we just need to find a way to utilize his screens and rolls to the basket a little more. Better hands would help.

Oh, and thanks for the info on wide open threes too...not what I would have expected!

To paraphrase Mike Ditka, Gobert is who I thought he was. He's an excellent interior defender and rebounder. He's no better or worse on that end. On the offensive end, he's a very good screen setter, but he has terrible hands and no shot more than a foot from the basket. He's always had bad hands and he's always just been a dunker. He's a terrific player, but not a terrific fit for this team in my view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmQbk5h86w

Denny Green, not Ditka, Lip.

Gobert showed terrible hands against the Suns, but I don't agree with your opinion that he has terrible hands. His teammates in Utah observed he didn't always catch the ball cleanly in his early years in the Association, and they actually worked with him on this...throwing him difficult pass after difficult pass in practice to improve his skills in this area. And there is evidence that his work in this area has been successful, because Rudy has always had fewer turnovers than the average NBA center. Even this year when some of us have questioned his hands, he is only averaging 1.5 turnovers per game, 25th in the league among centers, despite an obvious attempt by the Wolves to get Rudy more involved on offense. Only Brook Lopez and Jarrett Allen average fewer turnovers per game among centers averaging over 30 MPG. He looked clumsy against the Suns, but I don't think Rudy's hands are a problem.