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Yeah, him being a secondary ball handler on the court capable of running some PnR and slashing would really help the team. He has that in him, but defaults away from it. At this point I don't think he would execute that if he forced it.
It's a damn shame he's regressed so much in that area. He's playing stiff and will have to pound it to make himself loose. Doing that with the main squad will probably hurt his confidence with the misses/adjustment pains (edit: and hurt the overall team performance). The three point shooting, I'm not going to worry too much about with the change in form.
Good idea to get some assertiveness out of him with the GLeague route.
I thought he began the season playing okay in his bench role, making some cuts here and some cuts there, but he is capable of more. Still, that's an area he could find some immediate success when the team starts filling in from injury.
With the current state of the roster, I think he ultimately continues playing a good chunk of minutes for the foreseeable future.
For other options in the immediate timeline, I wouldn't mind seeing Nembhard get some run, what do you think?
I am 100% confident we could swap Okoro with Justin James from the Charge and we'd get more production from James tomorrow while the Charge would sorely miss the second playmaker that James was for them today after Guy.
Okoro needs to be forced to play assertively again and until he does, we're wasting a golden opportunity to get him ready for when the team is healthy again in a month.