12-15-2020, 11:55 AM
(12-15-2020, 11:29 AM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: Jumping up and dunking the lob is the easy part. Very few of these plays happen because DP skies over 3 defenders outstretched arms to catch the lob. A lot of the time he's wide open by the basket without anyone guarding him because he just perfectly read the defense and timed his roll. They are theoretically one of those plays that "anybody" could make but they consistently don't, which is why Powell is 99th percentile.
Absofreakinglutely.
While it's true that Powell's injury might've sapped him of enough to make him much less effective (time will tell), it's a completely false narrative that all he could do before the injury was "run and jump." Yes, he could do those things, but it's that Stanford brain that made the Luka/Powell combo so great, not the running and jumping. Knowing when to screen, when to slip, when to expect the ball on a short roll, when to go super hard, which angle to take, the timing, etc, etc, etc.