Raja Bell
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Are they a better team?
Absolutely.
You know, first of all, he's one of the best pick and roll players of all time.
Like when you put him in a pick and roll and if you said to a kid, hey, go watch X, Y and Z play and pick and roll or pick a handful of them and study all of them.
See how your game might, you know, compare to theirs, like find one and then
you know, use him as your blueprint.
Like he would be one of the guys that you'd say, Hey, include him in the film you watch because he does some really interesting stuff and pick and roll.
Do you remember what Clint Capella looked like when he was kind of prime running with James Harden?
So so like he he has an ability to do that for a lot of players.
The better the finisher, the better the IQ of the person playing and pick and roll with him, the more you're going to eat.
He puts defenders in a very, very tough spot in terms of whether you're going to stop him.
or whether you're going to allow him to continue to probe and get downhill.
And, you know, a lot of guys bite at the opportunity with the ball in their hand to shoot the shot over and over and over again.
And they don't include the big necessarily to the degree that you could include a big.
He just has a really good balance of the two.
Like, he will eat and pick and roll.
If you don't pick him up, I mean, he will eat.
He will float you to death or get to the rim or, you know, stop and pop that three.
But he never forgets about his big.
And