The dude has skills! Battled in the second half, attacking the offensive glass, blocking shots on the other end.
All his shots seemed to be short on the night, which makes plenty of logical sense considering how long he had off, letting his legs get rusty.
He looked for his shot quite a bit, and a lot of that had to do with Golden State not really giving him any extra attention , which is maybe the best non-assist pass I’ve ever seen.
His passing was surgical — had one leaping, drifting bounce pass to Achiuwa in the pick and roll that made me wake my dog with a yelp.
But he does so much other good stuff that it’s okay He did some other fantastic things though outside of the scoring: threw a few incredible lob passes in transition, compiled a huge number of deflections.
That actually changed in the second half, as he scored in the post and in a few isolations, too.
But then rotated to the rim from out of nowhere to block Kuminga at the rim! Surprisingly, that didn’t really get his defense going, as he gave up a blow-by to Chiozza in the third.
As usual, solid cutting to make himself available along the baseline, particularly when Barnes had the ball.
I really liked his choice to keep Anunoby in the game in the fourth, when the rest of the starters were done, just to get his rhythm back.
