“Even if he’s playing, we want him at his natural weight, driving to the basket off of one leg.” “We see him as a guy who has a rhythm and a flow to his game,” D’Alessandro said. The philosophy: make the position adapt to the player, not the other way around.
Gay shot a disastrous 43 per cent from inside eight feet of the basket while with the Raptors, according to Grantland’s Kirk Goldsberry, contributing to his terrible efficiency numbers.Ī year later, those extra 15 pounds are gone, even though the Kings still occasionally use Gay as their de facto second big man, next to DeMarcus Cousins. The change was supposed to make Gay more adept when he slid to power forward, but instead seemed to sap some of his athleticism. When the 2013-14 season began, Gay, then the Raptors’ first option on offence, was 15 pounds heavier than his normal playing weight. Article content We see him as a guy who has a rhythm and a flow to his game This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
