While Leonard liked what he saw from his team in Dallas, the All-Star said the team has to maintain a consistent mentality and effort every game like championship teams do.

Now, he is around the team and traveling on trips - that has been a big help.Portland Trail Blazers face coverings

"He plays at a crazy pace," Warriors guard Kent Bazemore explained earlier this season. "The way he plays, he processes the game at such a high rate -- we can dumb it down and call it IQ. He just has a crazy IQ for the game and he sees things, with him having a ball, he's kind of dictating what he wants to set up. That's what he does. He's like a puppet master of sorts. He's going to gravitate the defense, he's going to move the ball, and he knows what he's going to do after that."Orlando Magic face coverings

But this doesn’t fit neatly into Green’s pro-player campaign. The NBA’s arbitrary tampering enforcement leaves everyone – owners, management, coaches, players – unsatisfied. If anything, the league has been especially lenient toward players.Milwaukee Bucks face coverings

The difference between Eric Snow and Mike Bibby is a perfect example. They both finished in the top-10 in assists during the 1999-00 season — 8.1 per game for Bibby and 7.6 for Snow. But Bibby offered a lot more than distribution on offense. He was a 36.3 percent 3-point shooter on nearly three attempts per game. He chipped in 14.5 points per game and leveraged his jumper in a variety of ways to keep a defense off balance. Not so for Snow. He attempted just 45 3-pointers all season long, making just 11. He was not a scoring threat in any way and didn’t even pretend to be.

Clarkson was traded to Utah from Cleveland in 2019 and was given a nice four-year deal before the start of this season. He is averaging nearly 15 shots per game and shoots at will when he is on the floor. Plenty of NBA players, and former ones like Wade, clearly fantasize about having such a role. The pressure of being a superstar is gone and the goal is just to keep shooting.Washington Wizards face coverings

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