martin wrote:Didn't even know wrist height was measured
I knew they measured the vertical jumps in shots. That was a narrative for Brunson during last year's playoffs when he was fatigued. I guess wrist height would be a more accurate measurement of elevation.
Here is the Herring article if you havent seen, really interesting
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4349...
I dunno about the wrist height thing, but I feel like Mikal trying to get off a super quick release and when he rushes shots or is off balance he winds up short.
What I did find interesting were these two excerpts:
And if Bridges, who leads the league in minutes this season and hasn't missed a game in his six-plus-year career, hadn't been tired enough, the Hawks set a whopping 50 screens on Bridges that night while he was defending the ball handler, the most any NBA player has faced this season. Overall, Bridges is being screened nearly 25 times per night, the highest rate since Second Spectrum started tracking it 12 years ago
Teams wanted to try attacking him, because it was a different spot for him; especially early on," a Western Conference scout said of Bridges repeatedly serving as a point-of-attack defender. "If you got past him initially, you could force all sorts of aggressive rotations because the team was still getting used to having Towns at the rim. And the collective trust didn't look like it was there."
A lot is being asked of him - he hasn't been completely up for it, but he's also being asked to do something pretty physically taxing. TO do it for 40 mins every single game is a lot to be effective for.
