(Ep. 451/ATL and 29) More Salt Lake City Stuff

What did you think of how he did tonight?

I thought he was good overall.

Defensively, It felt like because he played more, he was able to adjust quicker.

The biggest thing he did was he stopped jumping because he was jumping and taking himself out of position too early.

Instead, he stayed more grounded.

I thought defensively that was probably his best game, particularly when he was in drop.

Switch was...

It's just bad technique more than anything else.

I think it's a lack of confidence, a lack of... switching out on the perimeter in an NBA setting.

So he should be able to improve with that because physically he has everything he needs to be to be at least a decent switch NBA big.

But overall, I thought he was good overall.

I only wish his teammates found him more on the perimeter when he's open on the three-point line.

It's just one of those things where it's like, If he's open, you've got to pass him the ball.

You've got to make defenders pay for not guarding a shooter as good as Henry Vasar, which I think he's a pretty good shooter from the perimeter.

But if you don't challenge the defense, then you're not punishing them.

It makes your drives harder.

It just makes everything harder than it has to be when you don't do that.

So that was the small downside.

But overall, I thought Vasar was pretty good.

Yeah, I know you and I disagreed the other day when we were talking about the Jazz game, and I thought that Vassar wasn't very good on defense in the second half, but in this game, I thought he was really good in drop.

He wasn't getting a lot of help in those situations, too, like McNeely.

and Ray J. Dennis, they were dying on the screen a lot of the times, and so he pretty much, you know, had to fully contain two people because they weren't recovering very quickly.

And I thought his, you know, technique in getting to the right spot so that he could deal with both people was really, really good.

You know, I think it was, obviously, it was a battle of the B squads, but I thought it was just a situation where he could play to his strengths too because...

He might not see this a whole lot in the NBA, but he wasn't going up against bigs that could space the floor, and he wasn't going up against bigs that were just going to brutalize him with physical strength down low.