With all the talk of “Scott Skiles hates rookies” this and “Scott Skiles ruins every young talent he gets his hands on because he would rather play Channing Frye” that, it was kind of surprising to see Mario Hezonja get 20 minutes in tonight’s close game against the Knicks. Not only that, but it looked like they assigned him some ball-handling responsibilities to go along with it! An unexpected turnaround for a player who was getting DNP-CDs just a few games ago.
One thing he didn’t do tonight was dunk it. We want dunks! That seems to be a common thing with supposedly high-flying Euros: when it comes down to it, they’d rather lay it up. I’m looking at you, Alexey Shved.