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Personally, and I disagree with Chinook on this, though I can see his point, his best asset has always been the combination of things he can do, he will rebound, get a steal, a block, a board in traffic sometimes that you didn't expect, and play really smart, finding open people that surprise you at times (we have seen the passing ability), then he would be opportunistic scoring. Obviously as a former pass first PG, being opportunistic in his scoring was ideal, he set up others for a lot of easy shots, and looked for his own things only when they didn't get anything and he needed to take that upon himself. That is why he's such an unlikely, yet talented iso scorer. But he didn't have the scorer mentality. He doesn't go in looking to get his own, he does what he does (whatever it is), looking for a teammate for better or worse. I don't think the Spurs would want to lose that. Guys like that are rare, specially guys who have enough talent to make quick decisions on the right play.
Now the next step for him would be to increase his own production scoring and this season's bench in particular has less talent, or rather they have a lot of undeveloped talent and rookies, and the bench bigs are not scorers outside of Lee. For example if he's in there with LJC or Dedmon, those guys are not going to score. So he maybe has to be more aggressive than as deferential as he could afford to be in the past. WE haven't seen that, so I guess we can be disappointed. It is early though. I have been more disappointed that he's passed up shots at times. That is probably the only thing that I have disliked and I hope Pop gets on him about that (and teammates).
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