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monsterpile wrote:Let's get back to Okogie a bit in the context of Wiggins. Ideally to some extent he is sort of the anti Wiggins. Plays his butt off defends and can hit spot up 3's. He wasn't a top recruit or draft pick. Meanwhile he has some upside as a ball handler and all that kind of stuff. If he is a compliment that's great. You know it wouldn't hurt Wiggins to have some shooting around him to throw the ball too after he drives. I know Q doesn't believe his passing has improved enough to consider an asset which is fair but regardless of who has the ball nobody was scared of the guys the Wolves had on perimeter and for stretches of the season that even included Belly. If Okogie just let's it fly and hits even 36.2% of his 3's that could help this team going forward.

We'll see. Given our track record of developing perimeter shooters, I'm not holding my breath.

I ran accords this recent podcast and this show was one I haven't listened to before. It had An assistant coach from Georgia Tech talking about Okogie. The part either he assistbe coach is maybe 15 mins and afte rthat it's nothing really new just a fan perspective on Vikings and Wolves. The assistant coach gave a lot of detail about the positives of Okogie. Sure you expect him to say good things but it's hard not to get excited about Josh after hearing this. The fact that he won the Rookie Transition MVP award* coincides with what the coach was saying about him.

https://m.soundcloud.com/talknorth/strom-sports-show-ep-11

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-north-souhan-podcast-network/id1014544923?mt=2&i=1000418107756


* below is the article about his experience in the NBA transition program.

https://www.nba.com/timberwolves/news/catching-josh-okogie