>Player development was at the core of what Wizards general manager Will Dawkins and president of Monumental Basketball Michael Winger began instilling when they took over the team last summer. They doubled down on the importance of a revamped player development program at their end-of-year media availability.
>Dawkins gave an interesting nugget about how he and Winger approached Kispert heading into their first season, his third, in D.C. last summer. They gave him a straight-up analysis of his reputation around the NBA. They believed his three-point quantity and his drive attempts could both improve.
>“We had a similar conversation with Corey and it was like, ‘This is how people view you around the league: as this guy who you got to run off the three-point line, and then you’re good. But you don’t hunt enough threes. These are the players that are around the same number of threes taken per 100 possessions as you, and he was like, “That ain’t it,”‘” Dawkins said.
>“He made a massive jump, extended his range, improved his arc, kept the efficiency high, and then was elite getting to the rim. I think he finished like 89th or 90th percentile finishing at the rim, while also being able to shoot the ball, stretch the defense, and he was able to take pride in finishing games while not being targeted on either end of the floor.”
I love that he improved the arc on his shot. I’d hoped that would happen once he got around JP.
>Oddly enough, Kispert played fewer minutes per game (25.8) this season than he did last year (28.3). Despite a downtick in playing time, he put up career-best averages in points (13.4), assists (2.0), rebounds (2.8), field goal attempts (9.9), free throw attempts (2.0), and steals (0.5).
Looking good. Hope he continues the improvement. Guy is somebody you loving having on the team because he’s self-motivated to improve. He’s a team guy and does the promo and stuff, but he’s also not afraid to call out the team and the organization for its faults. I wasn’t blown away by him getting drafted but he’s a good guy to have on the team and I like a lot of what he can do, and he keeps adding things like you’re supposed to.
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>Player development was at the core of what Wizards general manager Will Dawkins and president of Monumental Basketball Michael Winger began instilling when they took over the team last summer. They doubled down on the importance of a revamped player development program at their end-of-year media availability.
>Dawkins gave an interesting nugget about how he and Winger approached Kispert heading into their first season, his third, in D.C. last summer. They gave him a straight-up analysis of his reputation around the NBA. They believed his three-point quantity and his drive attempts could both improve.
>“We had a similar conversation with Corey and it was like, ‘This is how people view you around the league: as this guy who you got to run off the three-point line, and then you’re good. But you don’t hunt enough threes. These are the players that are around the same number of threes taken per 100 possessions as you, and he was like, “That ain’t it,”‘” Dawkins said.
>“He made a massive jump, extended his range, improved his arc, kept the efficiency high, and then was elite getting to the rim. I think he finished like 89th or 90th percentile finishing at the rim, while also being able to shoot the ball, stretch the defense, and he was able to take pride in finishing games while not being targeted on either end of the floor.”
I love that he improved the arc on his shot. I’d hoped that would happen once he got around JP.
>Oddly enough, Kispert played fewer minutes per game (25.8) this season than he did last year (28.3). Despite a downtick in playing time, he put up career-best averages in points (13.4), assists (2.0), rebounds (2.8), field goal attempts (9.9), free throw attempts (2.0), and steals (0.5).
Looking good. Hope he continues the improvement. Guy is somebody you loving having on the team because he’s self-motivated to improve. He’s a team guy and does the promo and stuff, but he’s also not afraid to call out the team and the organization for its faults. I wasn’t blown away by him getting drafted but he’s a good guy to have on the team and I like a lot of what he can do, and he keeps adding things like you’re supposed to.