Miguel Sano was just released by the Angels.
He is built like Cochran and Patterson, 6'5" 272# but is tall enough to guard big wings.
He is Dominican with an injury history, and has baseball money in his account, he so doesn't require NIL.
You left out Payne's ball handling skills which led to turnovers every time he needed to dribble.
If he was near the basket, he was unstoppable. But if was off the paint, he was not capable of getting near the basket with the ball.
My bad!
When you said "on the money" and "handling the wing", I interpreted that as successfully handling the wing.
You were saying successfully predicting how Ben will line up his players.
It all makes sense to me now.
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Twolves pick up Joe Ingles to replace Kyle Anderson.
Slo-mo...
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That is a skill requirement for the NBA and College Basketball...
If you can't travel, you can't play.
First you must learn the Euro-step.
Then you must learn the Arctic-step.
IF Betts can defend the wing as some other posters have suggested, that would totally flip the script.
He is 6'8" and Odukale is 6'6" and IF they could actually be a wing tandem, many new possibilities could open up.
IF is a huge key word.
I hope you guys are correct in our ability to defend big wings. My fears are based on hypotheticals only at this time and I hope those issues don't exist in reality.
I guess we won't know for sure until we play real games.