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Josh Robbins

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
995 total appearances

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The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

It's not pleasant.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

It's not pleasant for anybody within that team, except perhaps for the people who understand how important it is to keep that pick.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

Well, they should consider everything, and...

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

I think those are going to be deliberations that will intensify and may come to fruition, especially after the trade deadline or after any sort of buyouts for any veterans, if that happens.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

When he has the ball and he's going downhill, he's darn near unstoppable.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

He's probably the second best athlete on the team behind only Bilal.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

Uh, he has some real ability to score and to score quickly and to score without the aid of even a pick and roll, which is a very rare thing in the NBA.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

Uh, so he does, you're right in the, the scouting reports, as you described them, they were correct.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

He does have these gifts, but he does have the tunnel vision, uh, that you speak of.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

And that's been readily apparent, uh,

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

When they played in Houston, I ran a stat through the tracking data that the league has.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

Passes per minute played.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

He was last among all Wizards rotation players.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

So it all depends on the role they want.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

And if they want to have a Democratic...

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

make the extra pass offense, well then so far he has not fit into that.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

And that's going to have to be an area where he has to improve.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

But if you need someone who can come off that bench and score and do a lot of it on his own, well then he is as advertised.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

And they have, for all the reasons we've discussed, they have the time to work on it with him.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wizards Week + Shai keeps getting better | Slam N Jam

And