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Re: Every team needs a Patrick Beverly
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2019, 01:44:11 PM »

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It's true that every team needs a guy like that. Pretty much every champion had someone with that kind of energy.

And yeah, Smart is our guy.

Smart is a better player and better at playing the kind of game Beverly tries to play, but he's not a real outwardly high intensity character like Beverly.  Sometimes that really demonstrative loud personality can help get lower strung or less confident guys going, which we've had some problems with this year. Or drive them nuts, of course.

I'd much much rather have Smart here but the ability to trot both of them out as a defensive backcourt would be insane.

Yeah. I think the thing they have in common is an inordinate level dedication. I get the sense either would like himself on fire to win a basketball game. Or any game probably. Or - and this is important - to help a teammate.
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