Ben DuBose

As far as Jabari, look, Jabari's had lots of bad games.

I still just want to lay out kind of like my view of Jabari.

This is kind of the vision.

How he played tonight is the vision for Jabari Smith Jr.,

What I certainly hoped for when I saw him play, a guy who saw him pre-draft, is a guy who's 6'10", 6'11", can switch, can defend multiple players.

I wrote it down, but I don't have it here anymore because I apparently accidentally closed it.

But he went straight from, yeah, he hit shots tonight, but it was more than that.

He was switching.

He was guarding bigs, smalls, Zion.

and just praised his overall defense.

This is what he needs to do.

It's not that he has to put the ball on the floor, cross people up, go around screens, and create for everybody.

Yes, that'd be nice.

But for Jabari, he's got to be this kind of defender and this kind of shooter more often.

And he was playing really well before, like you said, before the bottom fell out.

I think he was around 50% from three for the six games before this thing just cratered.

And so it's frustrating.

I'm really happy to see him have a game like this.

It's long overdue.

And hopefully this starts to build.