No... or kind of....
I don't think he was moving people around to any extent that mattered.
1. His defensive awareness is not great. He can't come off his man to stop a different person. Sometimes that is the fault of the rotation ...a teammate not rotating. He got caught with a guy scoring behind him but that was not necessarily his fault other than not being aware of what is going on around him.
2. He moves his feet slowly and doesn't get to a spot. Any post who is mobile is going to fake him and go by. It happened, for example, when WF got an offensive rebound. Yes, it was a sudden change situation but Pierce can't react well.
3. He frequently has not been able to slide or move down the lane to block guards who have beaten one of our guards.
On the positive side, he kept alive a couple of offensive rebounds and had a putback or two. That is nice. He knocked down a baseline jumper and air-balled another. He also operated around the high post and distributed.
Let me amend my first statement. I think he should be further along in understanding what he has to do to play for Williams. He has been here to know what is stopping him from playing. Whether it is toughness, fight, strength, etc. that is missing, sometimes that is a personality thing. Sometimes it is an effort thing. He needs to fight. Use his big body to get position, learn where rebounds are going, move his feet or work on it.
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Posted: 01/14/2016 at 08:43AM
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