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What coaches and players say about roles, minutes, gameplans and development.
Mamukelashvili wants to improve his rebounding and defense so he is trusted and not a liability.
โI also want to just work on my rebounding and defensively, I just want to be a guy you can trust, you know, I don't want to be liabilityโ
Mamukelashvili plays the delay and makes reads when he is the small ball five.
โIf it's a small ball five, I play the delay, I kind of make, like, right reads, and if not, then I just kind of compliment them as much as possible.โ
LeBron is on a 16 to 18 minute limit for now and how he gets there is flexible.
โIt was going to be first half minutes, right? ... So a nine minute stint is seven, you know, what would be a normal one or six and a half or something. ... And to get to that number, 16, 18 minutes, it doesn't really matter how you do it right now.โ
Harper's shooting has improved since the start of his rookie year in both mechanics and percentages.
โI think he's shown improvement since the start of his rookie year just in terms of whether it's the consistency of the mechanics or the percentages themselves.โ
Wembanyama has gotten much better at reading advantages based on how defenses guard him.
โHe's gotten a lot better at seeing where his reads are and advantages are depending on how the defense guards him.โ
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