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you know, in some situation.
And a player like a Jalen Brunson, who does dominate the ball, but still make plays, still make shots, big time.
So it's a confluence, Dan.
Here's the thing.
Jalen Brunson dominates, but yet, if you're Mike Brown, if you're Thibodeau, man, I gotta have the ball in my best player's hand.
And the way their team is built,
Who else, now that Cat is doing his thing, but before, is going to facilitate?
Who else at the end of the shot clock is really going to go get their shot?
So it's a catch-22, depending on how your team is made up.
We're talking to Jim Jackson, Fox Sports.
How do you explain what Brunson does in a tiny space?
That ability to... His handle...
It's not outside his body.
It's kind of tight spaces.
But to find those spaces, not be afraid of those spaces, and kind of get you leaning one way or another, can you teach that?
Yeah, you can because this is the beauty about the game of basketball, especially somebody like Jalen Brunson.
who doesn't rely on athleticism to be able to make him the kind of player that he is.
So give a lot of credit to his father, Rick Bunton, when he was younger, to understand the use your ability in between your ears, to understand space angles, how to create shots, okay?
So you take the number one player in high school, point guard watch.
He could have went anywhere, Dan, but he chose to go to Villanova.