Donald Wine

When he goes at a guy right in front of the rim, his percentage is a lot higher than when he tries to Olay and, you know, do something cool around him, around the contact to try and lay it in because the angle is just not there.

He had a couple of times where he went straight at the guy and still did something creative.

He did that under the basket type of rotation.

But I like the fact that he has been more aggressive with it.

Last night, Jason, he talked about in the postgame, he talked about the fact that because Pat Gong was out, I'm sure we'll talk about that in a little bit, the fact that he was out meant that his rebounding was gone.

He wanted to pick that up.

A couple games ago when he was deathly sick and he still played, what did he do, Jason?

He had a career high in rebounds that day.

He just had another one last night.

14 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, a 10-5-5 game.

And so, again, he understands, as now one of the quote-unquote elder statesmen of the team, that sometimes we need him to shoot threes.

Sometimes we need him to drive straight at somebody and go right to the rack.

And sometimes we need him to rebound and pass the ball to others.

And last night, he kind of saw what was going on around him and was able to compliment at every single turn.

If we were going to Cam inside, cool, let me stay outside and make sure I'm ready for the three or be ready to pass the ball to somebody else.

When we were giving it to Slim and Slim was hitting threes, you don't need my threes anymore.

Now you need me to be aggressive and go to the lane.

That's what he was doing last night.

And I think now that he's no longer sick, he has that energy now.

to go straight at folks.