Hawes Needs to Develop a Mean Streak
I'd like him to start the game with a forearm shiver to the mid-section of whoever he's guarding. Maybe then they'd know he's out there. He's got to start to like hitting people - in a good way, a quasi-legal way. a Bill-Lambier kind of way. Right now he's bouncing around like a goof instead of slamming into somebody getting position on the floor. (He and Martin must exchange notes.) Hawes is not athletic enough to get away with being a finesse defensive center. He CANNOT BE a finesse defensive player. He must start think more about whamming into people out there than about navigating through traffic. If Spencer would go out there and be so physical that he actually started a fight, THEN I'd know that he finally got it. Until then, he's a boy among men.
I'd like him to start the game with a forearm shiver to the mid-section of whoever he's guarding. Maybe then they'd know he's out there. He's got to start to like hitting people - in a good way, a quasi-legal way. a Bill-Lambier kind of way. Right now he's bouncing around like a goof instead of slamming into somebody getting position on the floor. (He and Martin must exchange notes.) Hawes is not athletic enough to get away with being a finesse defensive center. He CANNOT BE a finesse defensive player. He must start think more about whamming into people out there than about navigating through traffic. If Spencer would go out there and be so physical that he actually started a fight, THEN I'd know that he finally got it. Until then, he's a boy among men.
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