Reaction to OG Anunoby’s Knicks DEBUT, how New York’s ceiling is elevated | Hoops Tonight

Reaction to OG Anunoby’s Knicks DEBUT, how New York’s ceiling is elevated | Hoops Tonight

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So you guys don’t miss any of our content over the course of this season all right let’s talk some basketball I wanted to talk a little bit about OG and and obi’s first game with the Knicks impressive win as the Knicks beat the Minnesota Timberwolves uh on offense you

Saw the benefit of oan anobi right away hit what three Corner threes talked a lot about how so many Knicks games in recent weeks were ending like it’s like a tic-tac-toe right like it’s like uh Jaylen Brunson makes a play at the point of attack that draws multiple Defenders

You know he hits the roll man or hits the guy on the wing who drives and kicks or the rle man you know makes a read out of the short roll and then the ball just ends up in RJ Barrett’s hands on the wing and he can’t shoot especially against the closeout

And so just so many of those possessions would end that way and it’s like oh oan anobi is just a much better both contested and uncontested catch and shoot shooter and and like he’s going to make the corner threes in a way that RJ Barrett can’t the second big thing that

Stood out to me is just his athleticism again this is a type of athlete that the Nicks just did not have on the roster like a a an actually perimeter quick tall guy they they just didn’t have this right and like you see you saw it in a bunch of different ways

Specifically they worked him in the dunker spot a lot where like he would just kind of meander down there when he saw an opening and he has that ability to on the catch just immediately go up and dunk it with two hands and he’s got the strength to fight through contact

Which is just a it’s like a release valve in a lot of ways when he’s cutting to the rim he had a cut on like a little banana cut over the uh uh right into the middle of the floor where he caught and went up and dunked it with two hands I

Think he got a foul on that one too like he just has like it’s almost like a real Rim pressure from the off ball positions you know what I mean mean and then as just an athlete in transition he had a big one-handed dunk in transition where

He was running his Lane I think he’s just going to make them so much better on the offensive end of the floor and I thought you saw that immediately now defensively was a chore he uh they put him on Anthony Edwards to start the game and the Timberwolves are an excellent

Screening team and OG was really struggling to fight over the top of screens and so ant did get downhill a lot I’ve talked about this before but like the Knicks might want to experiment with switching just because of the size of the their front line and ogan anobi

Being a big body that can be easy to screen sometimes and we’ll see maybe uh it’s just one game so I don’t want to overreact and we’ll see what kind of scheme ends up working best for them the other thing too is the uh the Knicks as currently constructed are not a rim

Protection Team they don’t have like a big old rim protector especially since Mitchell Robinson’s hurt and so an over-the-top chasing kind of on ball scheme is serves to funnel and you only really want to funnel when you have excellent Rim protection so it might be interesting we’ll see over a larger

Sample size but it might be interesting to see the Knicks try to do some more switching because OJ and jobi can guard bigger players because they can have like a team-wide help and recover scheme to try to uh help them do okay and mismatches they also have some guards

That are like surprisingly big and strong uh and that can be something that is useful in switching as well but we’ll see in the big picture what they decide to do got in foul trouble too a couple of really bad causes of Reb Downing foul

That I didn’t like and then he his sixth foul was just an atrocious call he was just fighting through a goar screen and it was pretty innocuous contact and the ref just took him out of the game something I’m not a huge fan of but it

Is what it is but overall I thought it was an impressive debut for ogan anobi a clear demonstration of the ceiling raising ability that he Has oh

Jason Timpf reacts to OG Anunoby’s debut with the New York Knicks where he showed his versatility on both ends of the floor. Adding 17 points to go along with two steals in his first game, it is clear that the Knicks ceiling has been elevated with the addition of Anunoby.

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