He's had a great year. His all-around game has improved. Offensively, he's got the low-post game. He's very explosive off the dribble. He's a good finisher. I think his outside shooting is getting better all the time. . . . He's so young, he'll continue to get better and better each year (in the playoffs) with experience.
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He's our best low-post player. When you attack the basket, you need someone big and strong and aggressive to do it, and he's the man.
To me, he's probably the best scorer in the league. Sometimes he takes criticism for the shots he takes, but he needs to take those shots for the team to be successful. He needs a low-post player. We joke all the time that we could play together. He's a guy who's going to make a low-post player better, and vice versa.
One of our concerns has been, and probably always will be - unless you have a (Tim) Duncan or a Shaq (O'Neal) - having enough depth at the center position with enough flexibility so you can match up with all the different teams, because teams give you different looks, ... That was a strength last year, and it will be another strength for us this year. We have the strength with Vitaly, versatility and talent with a guy like Nick Collison, a low-post game. You have some length now and running ability in Mikki and some youth in Petro and Robert and some toughness and bulk in Danny.
He's persistent. He doesn't get discouraged. He's a quick jumper to basket, a good shooter. I think he's the best low-post guy in the league. You have to keep the ball from him.
My expectations are high for Vin. I think he can give us a low-post presence that we maybe haven't had before. I expect him to get minutes at the 5 and as a backup to Antoine Walker . If the season started tonight, I'd see him getting no less than 25 minutes.
Our low-post defense and defensive rebounding will be a big key.
If the season ended today I'd vote for him. He's been very consistent. He has the ability to play well even though they don't have another low-post presence.
I am very excited to announce that Michelle Snow will be returning. Michelle gives us a great low-post presence with unique rebounding and shot-blocking abilities. She's a great young player who has made tremendous progress during her time here.
It was paramount for us to get him the ball in the second half. When your horse inside has been sitting for an hour, it's really important to get him into the game. He's our low-post presence. When he plays well, we usually play well.
We've always had a hard time defending him because he's a skill guy -- not only as a low-post scorer, but he's a good passer and he shoots it very well from 15-17 feet. And with the loss of Aaron Williams and Alonzo Mourning because of the Vince Carter trade, we thought we needed some size. He helped Detroit, especially against the Lakers in the finals.
We're really excited that we've had the good fortune to pick up a player of his caliber. He's always been a very capable low-post scorer with a big body, and he's a big presence out there.
I hate it for Damion because he was prepared to play this year and had an opportunity to help us, ... From a basketball perspective, it certainly has an impact on our frontcourt depth. We didn't have much to start with, and now we are losing our biggest low-post player.
We just weren't able to score when we need to in the second half. We have troubled scoring, that's our Achilles' heel. We really don't have a low-post game and we have trouble manufacturing points.
They have given us low-post presence, they have given us shot-blocking, and they certainly add a different dimension to our team. They are different types of players and they compliment each other pretty well.
Since joining the WNBA as the No. 1 pick out of USC in the league's inaugural draft, in 1997, Thompson has quietly added an effective low-post game. After she was selected for the Olympic team, she made a commitment to work out with Team USA every day for a few months starting in February. She knew her experience was minimal, but she just plugged away and quietly went about her business, ... By the end of the training in April, there was no doubt she was the best, most consistent player that had played with us. She's quietly gone about her business and earned everybody's confidence.