Well, there was a lot of nice basketball from RWill, but it seriously blows my mind that he won that Defensive Player of the year award.
Check out his awareness starting at 6.46 - three bad moves: doesn't check his man when the handoff happens (although isn't in too bad position - lucky), late to the drive contest - just literally ball watching, then late to recover and stupidly tries to snatch a steal that wasn't there, loses position. Still needs a LOT of work. Also, his offensive rebounding effort comes and goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5g_3SsB7k
Good illustration with that clip. Ouch. I often have the impression he's out of position and late to react; this is a good breakdown of a (too typical) play.
One positive I'd offer is that his passing was usually crisp - didn't hold the ball too long - and often was a good basketball play. He made one or two nice pocket passes to cutters.
Yes, agreed. It's bizarre to me that his passing vision is actually very good - was last year too. Literally the least advertised part of his game coming out of college.
He is still very slim, and you're right - he just doesn't have a feel for when to engage contact on defensive end.
Agree with Surferdad that he simply is not a starting option at this point... we go with Theis or Kanter. [That's not to say that he couldn't figure things out quickly without having coaching staff completely occupied with all last year's bull
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