NBA Rookie Power Rankings: Kawhi Leonard Surges Up List While many of the NBA Live Coins top end talents of the 2011 draft are still struggling with injury, inefficiency, or both, the role players that have defined the class from the onset continue to come into their own. The Ricky Rubio-Kyrie Irving top tier goes unchallenged for yet another week, but the utility players beneath them have clearly established their respective values to contending teams.
Kawhi Leonard's Off-Ball AbilitySan Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard at MUT 18 Coins played an integral role in their win over the Thunder last Saturday, spacing the floor, knocking down all three of his triples, picking up six rebounds, functioning well within the offense and moving the ball (five assists), and playing impressive defense on Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant who finished with 22 points on 19 shots.
That was good for 1.15 points per shot, down 20 percent from his season average.On the season, it's this same sort of utility role that has allowed Leonard to stand out. Among Leonard's multitude of talents, it's his off-ball work that catches the eye most readily. Leonard simply never stops moving, and moreover, his movement has a single-minded focus to it. Leonard doesn't floating into open space or into corners the way Houston's Chandler Parsons or Milwaukee's
Jon Leuer do. Instead, he crashes to the rim at every opportunity. It's tough to capture this constant motion through video of just a play or two, but this play typifies one of his most common cut types:Leonard loves the straightaway cut from the top of the arc. It's gotten to the point now where defenses should, honestly, be picking up on it far more often than they to https://www.mmogo.com/
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