Fred Katz

And Joe Mazzulla is obsessed with Mitchell Robinson.

Joe Mazzulli is the only coach in the league who consistently, his team will not be in the bonus and he will intentionally foul his team into the bonus to hack Mitchell Robinson just to try to get him off the floor.

It is like the greatest sign of respect.

He did that in a playoff game and he's done it in the regular season.

Like,

He obsesses over trying to keep Mitchell Robinson off the court and nobody keeps Mitchell Robinson off the boards.

It's insane.

It's literally historic what he's doing on the offensive boards, but they need someone in those moments who can just be a freaking...

Yeah.

Well, what jives with that, Zach is like, if you look any year, you look at the list of shooters who are the most commonly closed out on in the NBA and

Vucevic is always at or near the top.

He's always one of the most commonly closed out on shooters.

So what does that mean?

If guys are constantly closing out on him, that means they weren't covering him previously.

It also means he's one of the more sagged off of or helped off of shooters.

He's right in that in-between where we're going to sag off of you, but we're also going to rush to close out on you.

But it also means that

The level of shooter that he is, even if he's shooting 38, 40 percent, is not necessarily conducive.

It's not necessarily congruent with the level of spacer that he is.

Often those two things line up.