KingsFanGER
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That's was largely due to Acy and his ability to contain Wiggins whenever he switched onto him, we should have played Acy on Wiggins for more of that game cause anyone else who was on him get torn to pieces. Yet people are complaining about Acy playing and blaming that as part of the reason why we lost.
I agree. But the problem with Acy is, that he doesn't do anything else than to hustle and switch pick&rolls decently. What's even worse is that the same can be said about Willie.
When Willie finally rolled to the rim a few times I asked myself, why don't we see this more often. I don't know if this is a coaching thing or a complete lack of confidence and aggression from Willie.
What I do fear is, that Willie doesn't know how to get into position to crash the glass. He is 7 foot tall and most likely the quickest player playing the C/PF position right now, but he doesn't use this at all.
That's maybe the reason why Karl refuses to play him for more minutes and to go big most of the time.
He seems unable to punish smaller players with scoring and rebounding.
Koufos is not nearly the athlete Willie is, but boy does he carve out space in the paint. Sometimes he rushes those little floater-hookshot things, but at least you can throw him the ball and be sure, that he gets it up, before the D locks him down.
What an upgrade over JT, who took half a minute to gather himself, before trying to score the ball.