Moving on to Christie. I thought it was notable the Mavs PR department had his image at the top of their gameday art yesterday. He's got an extremely bight future in Dallas, (hopefully .... if you'll pardon the snark).
I remember thinking after his first game, he reminds me A LOT of our own PJ Washington in terms of just being in the right place on the floor. He's got extremely advanced basketball IQ. He may never average 25 ppg but if he can consistently put up 15 PPG at this level of efficiency, while being a plus on defense, he will be a starter for a long time. And he's obviously capable of getting hot and putting up 25-30 on any given night. You have to guard him, and like with PJ, everything just seems to function better when Christie is on the floor. I'm super impressed.
It's not hard to see a young core of Christie, PJ, Lively and Gafford anchoring this team with high-level - albeit not quite superstar - level performance moving forward.
I remember thinking after his first game, he reminds me A LOT of our own PJ Washington in terms of just being in the right place on the floor. He's got extremely advanced basketball IQ. He may never average 25 ppg but if he can consistently put up 15 PPG at this level of efficiency, while being a plus on defense, he will be a starter for a long time. And he's obviously capable of getting hot and putting up 25-30 on any given night. You have to guard him, and like with PJ, everything just seems to function better when Christie is on the floor. I'm super impressed.
It's not hard to see a young core of Christie, PJ, Lively and Gafford anchoring this team with high-level - albeit not quite superstar - level performance moving forward.
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