J. Kyle Mann

They're really hard to guard.

Yeah, I'm looking now.

They're 21st in free throw rate, too.

And that's always been the big bugaboo with Lomelo is he doesn't get to the rim often enough.

And he's often on... I mean, this is one of my borderline obsessions, watching Lomelo drive to the basket.

He's often on this year in previous years, but especially this year, been more diligent about...

It's just not his instinct to slow down with a live dribble and just prod like Chris Paul style and then go up through contact.

He likes to get off of it early.

He likes to shoot threes.

He likes to shoot floaters.

And even at the rim, he'll just overcomplicate it sometimes for reasons that I don't understand.

He almost reminds me of like a less explosive Derrick Rose in that he'll have a clear layup

And all of a sudden he's like passing out of it for no reason or like going up and under where it's like, dude, just just go up.

And Miller, you know, he just doesn't get to the rim that often because I think he's still coming into his strength in his body and figuring out where his spots are.

And I do think that's the sort of.

collective hurdle for the hornets now they can make up for a lot of their lack of traditional dribble drive explosiveness or whatever with just the threat of their shooting like you have to close out so hard on all of these guys particularly lamello and khan that that makes it easier for them to drive and sort of get the blender moving and to your point about like miller um

Like there just aren't a lot of guys with this kind of profile.

Like I was looking at his second spectrum tracking stats.

He averages 23 pick and rolls per 100 possessions as the ball handler.

That's like pretty average-ish for somebody of his ilk and his star level.