Justin Rowan

Yeah, and the interesting thing is over those three games, Mitchell's usage has actually gone up, right?

Like he's play finishing and he doesn't have to create as much.

And I think that's an interesting wrinkle.

And I think the other component of this is I think Mitchell is a good passer for a shooting guard.

He's just not ready to or he doesn't have the energy to play point guard full time.

Right.

And that's why he had it.

You know, tennis is in that last game against Washington, which, you know, you can't read too much into it.

We barely even recapped it on the podcast.

But, you know, I think when the defense is in rotation, he's going to make the right decision.

But if you think back to that Indiana series, when he was running, you know, the basically the offense for the Cavs, what Indiana did was they said, we're not sending help.

We are going to let him score at the rim.

We're going to let him drive.

We're going to let him play one-on-one.

We're not going to bring the help and give him that easy read as a playmaker.

We're not going to let him do the kick-out pass.

We're not going to let him drop off to the big.

If he's going to score in the paint, which he did a ton of, and they won the points in the paint battle, we'll live with that.

But we're not giving him the easy reads.

If Harden's initiating and Mitchell is getting the ball swung to him and he's attacking a destabilized defense, I think that is going to help kind of those connective passes be made in those situations.