I think Deni's improving but still mediocre playmaking, inability to see defenders digging in on drives, and his getting stuck picking up his dribble or throwing a bad pass in floater range all stem from his tunnel vision. He seems surprised whenever he gets cutoff at the rim. I don't think he sees the number of bodies that will be between him and the goal when starting his drive and gets stuck without help. It would help if he was reading the defense loading up at the rim and getting his floater ready with the trailing defender at his hip.
I actually think this has helped his transition offense funnily enough. He's not afraid to go 1 on 3, especially when some or all of those 3 defenders are smaller than him, and that "bad decision" making catches a lot of teams off guard. In your second clip, Deni takes off without surveying the court, and starts a hard dribble motion turning his hips to the left without even know what's behind him. He sees the smaller player ahead of him and just attacks him without thinking (or seeing) of drawing in Lebron early from the wing for a Camara three.
If he can keep his decisiveness and aggression while remaining more flexible with his decision-making in the half-court, I'll be pretty happy.
My biggest fear is a regression on the three. For whatever reason, players his size that aren't strict role players tend to be very up and down season to season on three point shooting (JJJ, early/mid-career and 23-24 Draymond, Larry Johnson, Franz Wagner).
Great work.
I think Deni's improving but still mediocre playmaking, inability to see defenders digging in on drives, and his getting stuck picking up his dribble or throwing a bad pass in floater range all stem from his tunnel vision. He seems surprised whenever he gets cutoff at the rim. I don't think he sees the number of bodies that will be between him and the goal when starting his drive and gets stuck without help. It would help if he was reading the defense loading up at the rim and getting his floater ready with the trailing defender at his hip.
I actually think this has helped his transition offense funnily enough. He's not afraid to go 1 on 3, especially when some or all of those 3 defenders are smaller than him, and that "bad decision" making catches a lot of teams off guard. In your second clip, Deni takes off without surveying the court, and starts a hard dribble motion turning his hips to the left without even know what's behind him. He sees the smaller player ahead of him and just attacks him without thinking (or seeing) of drawing in Lebron early from the wing for a Camara three.
If he can keep his decisiveness and aggression while remaining more flexible with his decision-making in the half-court, I'll be pretty happy.
My biggest fear is a regression on the three. For whatever reason, players his size that aren't strict role players tend to be very up and down season to season on three point shooting (JJJ, early/mid-career and 23-24 Draymond, Larry Johnson, Franz Wagner).