Rui Hachimura Discussion: Huge Buckets

I agree that Rui will be huge for us. I would start him from what I know so far, mainly because I am not confident in AD or Lebron to shoot well from range and having three players start that aren't three-point threats might be too many. On the other hand, maybe AD and Vando come in much improved in that regard. Either way, I really like both Vando and Rui. Going to both be big parts of our championship runs over the next few seasons.

 

The King has spoken

 

Oh my gosh the ego Lebron “Miyogisan” James

 

Coach is so intimidating he's keeping professional athletes out of the paint SMH.

 

lean and mean

 

LOL …. or he got the “Big Head”

 

He’s everything I envisioned Kuz being for us minus the fashion and addiction to social media.

 

The shooting is nice and all but I wonder if he put in any time with boxing out.
If you look at his numbers his big issues thru his career is consistent intensity/effort, rebounding, and defense.

AD is going to eat a lot of rebounding chances but a guy his size should be able to really help the defense by gobbling up defensive boards: underrated reason Denver had a slight edge on the Lakers was Jokic's rebounding ability.

Kuzma was also not a great rebounder but when asked to that dude put effort into getting boards in the bubble year - he grabbed a lot of contested 50-50 balls in the playoffs: you need secondary scorers to be able to do the little things like that to win a title

 

They could call Austin up to front of the class to demonstrate the rocket science apparently of how to do it.

 

Kawhi lite on the court and Bizarro happy Kawhi in interviews.

 

got him for nunn's corpse and a couple 2nds.

 

Looked good once he settled down

 

yeah, those first two or three forays to the hoop were ugly. vando's first two were ugly, too, but he was fouled on one of them. rui was just wildly chucking it off the glass. i actually used to do that early in games if i was too amped. like if i got a breakaway in the first few possessions...i was going to blow that layup because i was going too fast.

loved the bully ball on kuminga and the immediate post up when he got the small on him. didn't love that he took a semi-contested three instead of swinging to the wide open wood at the top of the key. but at least he made it!

 

Being able to work out with Lebron is gonna be the career turn he needed. Good to see he was able to shed the Washington stink and willing to put in work to get better.

 

Seeems a little trigger happy at times

 

Rui looks like a bit of a black hole once he gets the rock, but his jumpshot was looking nice. Looking like Kawhi out there.