Cavatt
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It's not just Giannis, he's averaging 8 ppg on 29% FT the last 5 games. If he can't hit jumpers or get around 4's, what is he going to against 3's.
The coaches clearly like him just as the fans do and I would actually argue that they're giving him a pretty fair opportunity. Most teams can't afford to continue to give a guy which his shooting percentages as many minutes as he's getting or the amount of shots.
Fact of the matter is he really needs to figure out how to shoot consistently from NBA 3 pt range: he doesn't have enough of a skillset to more then a marginal roleplayer on a good team unless he can figure that out.
On a side note: Greeks and Turks don't get along traditionally so it would be interesting if Giannis wanted to put an exclamation on this one
Well Giannis isn't from Greece, Cedi is from Macedonia. Cedi is closed to being great than Giannis.
I dunno we have seen him play better. He always looks better as a 2 who shares balancing and can muscle past smaller guys. Right now he really doesn't have a strength or speed or size advantage.
His blocks steals and defense are all worse than what we have seen before. Maybe he is worse at everything after looking great at times and being very solid last year. I think it's more likely his back is hurt and playing him at pf isn't helping.
Like he isn't running the floor like he had before. He has no burst. Seems slower and more earthbound than he did to start the season.
Maybe he isn't any good, but he doesn't look like his normal self to me.
https://youtu.be/YWKhD21Ym1c
Maybe he is just wildy inconsistent, but it's weird to me he isn't doing all the little things he was before .