I like White he will be a good player is he is legit starter for a playoff seeking team No. But I think he is will be a good second team player and be can be the back up PG for a long time. I think for his rookie year he is doing good just takes time to make adjustments and to figure out role. As far as shooting I think will see him work on that this summer and he be good to go next season.
After doing some further research I'm not as high on White's shooting as I used to be. It seems like he really isn't that good of a spot up shooter. Despite this, he's still clearly a plus everytime he's out there and one of the most well rounded players in the entire roster.
I think the reason for the onslaught of offensive rebounds was due to not having length on the wings. I saw a few times the ball bounced over our heads and we didn't have the size to get the ball.
Besides rebounding obviously the refs were partly responsible for the loss. One of the worst officiated games I've seen in a while
Poeltl and Bertans in the 4th wouldve changed the outcome
Is play Poeltl the new play Splitter?
Re-watched every Harden possession, and even with the breakdown on contesting the stepbacks, White was great on defense. Not only was Harden missing much more than he made, White being able to stay in front of Harden reduced his assist opportunities in a big way.
Without White on him, Harden just went to the rim at will setting up scores at the baked for the bigs and setting up open threes. Once he blew by Mills and DeRozan et al then the help had to rotate hard and it was open season.
Sadly White just doesn't have the size/length combination of Kawhi/Green/Simmons to both keep in front and contest stepbacks.
He made Harden an inefficient offensive threat. That's good enough. I think with more experience, he's going to get better. White is deceptively quick, but needs more muscle.
white was outstanding on defense. Without him, we lose badly. On one play he got knocked to the floor on a vicious pick and Harden went to his favorite spot on the left arc. Bertans came out on him and was just enough to stall Harden briefly while he decided what he wanted to do. Then White came back out of nowhere and took over, rattling Harden and he shot a way off the mark three. All this happened in seconds of course, but it showed that White wasn't going to be knocked off his man coverage of Harden. Little things on defense, like persistence, are what keeps a team playing good team defense.
He needs to quit trying so hard to pass to a teammate when he has driven to the basket and has a good opportunity for a shot. When every pro expects you to shoot, dropping off the pass for an assist to a big man can turn into TOs because they often don't have the best hands and aren't ready for the ball.
You just gave me flashbacks to Ginobili making perfect quick passes to stone hands Man from Nazr. Or to a lesser extent Rasho.
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