Andrew Schlecht

And his three-point shooting has somehow gotten slower to where the Spurs felt so confident in cheating off of him and being able to recover in time to make him just not even attempt a three.

That was part of their game plan that really worked is that they just took away the three and they could do it while not just like staying glued to him, which became a huge problem for the Thunder.

And so to me, speeding up his release, there was even time where there's no rotation on the ball either as it's heading to the rim from Chet from three.

There's just a lot of issues that have kind of popped up with this three ball, which one of the strengths of having Chet Holmgren on your team and...

presumably him as the lone big out there is that he can stretch the floor and that you can play fast.

You can play this style.

You can play this style.

That's a pretty unique, but when he doesn't shoot threes, that's kind of taken away because they don't feel like they really need to worry about him.

He's not going to tackle closeout.

When you talk about what is Chet's go-to move on offense, I think probably it's the spin move in the lane is probably the thing that people would think about the most.

When you play San Antonio, that's gone.

And he knew it.

To his credit, you didn't see him try that over and over again.

He knew that wasn't going to work against the Spurs, which is when you take away the three, when you take away the rim because Wimby's there, when you take away the spin move, well, what's left?

There wasn't just a lot left there for him.

And so to me, like priority number one, speed up the three ball.

If he can get a faster release on the three, he'll be way more effective.

And then I just wonder in three or four years, if we're talking about Chet having like an actual go-to move.

And when we talk about these bigger forwards through time, does Chet develop some kind of go-to mid-range shot that it's like, no matter what, I feel like I can get to this shot?

And it wasn't just Wimby.