Paulo Alves

He was training towards being better, had those two games of a break,

And now seems to be playing better.

The fact that he made five threes out of seven shots in the last game is intriguing.

And I'm wondering even how you feel about how that factors into his health.

Like, is he just more comfortable shooting?

jump shots when he's fully healthy because we saw early on in the season he was shooting it a lot and then for a very long period of time he'd shoot one or zero a game and now all of a sudden he's shot seven and made five of them including the first five not sure how that factors in sometimes that's what's frustrating because it's tough to understand what dictates his shot diet

Yeah, I'm not going too far down that road until we see it more consistently.

I've been burned before, so as far as the hypothetical, I'm much more willing to have that conversation if he starts off next season hot from three, if we see it more in training camp, in the preseason.

I think it's pretty far-fetched to think it's just suddenly going to click less than a month before the playoffs.

I would love to be wrong, but that's the kind of thing.

I'll take it as a positive development when it happens, and I think Sunday in New Orleans against a bad Pelicans team

was just something of a heater.

A lot of them came from the same spot on the court, right at the top of the key.

I think he got in rhythm.

The Pelicans didn't take him out of rhythm.

I would be surprised.

I don't think it's a great discussion topic for this week's pod.

I would love to revisit that in a week if he proves us wrong, but that's just...

You know, my sense, I'm much more focused on the advancements he's made in other aspects of his game, most notably defensive intensity and finishing near the rim, which it feels like both of those things have picked up this month.

As far as other areas of the team beyond Shingun, since we last recorded, there have been a few changes.