Chr1s1anL wrote:
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We've seen Jonas make kickouts from the post. We've seen him make fine high-low passes, big to big and sometimes on a nice little give-n-go type play where a guy like Lowry might pass it to Jonas up high, cut around him to use him as a screener and lose his man, leaving the pass open to Lowry right under the bucket. However we don't run plays to create this kind of thing as often as we could...not even close. On his post ups the entry passer often tries to pull his man to the weak side...but that just ends up with all 4 of our shooters on one congested side of the court and no good outlets. And it's not like we use cutters a lot either to try and force the D to react and open up passing lanes.
He doesn't lack the basic skills to get more assists. How many more? I don't know. I don't think you're looking at a passing beast out there. But even with the skills he has right now, I could easily see him getting 2-3 per game if he was used better and the sets we ran actually had decent motion and passing angles. Passing is also something for bigs that can develop a bit more slowly as they have to get used to reading situations. Noah wasn't a very good passer right off the bat. The guy he credits for helping him a lot is Brad Miller, a good big man passer who also took a few seasons to fully realize his potential there as well.
So I'm definitely not going to write him off when he's barely had the chance to showcase/develop his passing ability.
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