Za Morant

Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem give Luka his flowers: Wade: He’s scoring the basketball everywhere, okay? Luka can score the basketball everywhere and even when he does he’s very efficient, okay? So now you’re talking about them putting a team around Luka to do what Luka do. Everybody always want a guy to he what they’re not. Well, they want Luka to be a better defender, okay? Luka effort has went up a notch. You watched it last year some, but you watched it even more this year. So credit to JJ and that coaching staff for understanding what his weaknesses are and putting schemes around his weaknesses, but also too we going to need a lil bit more effort out of you. Luka’s giving you a little bit more effort. But what he’s doing on that other end is dynamic.” UD: That vertical spacing you can’t emulate that. You need that vertical spacing especially when you got a guy like Luka. And I’mma tell you something, Luka’s never going to make the easy pass. That sh*t either going to look you off and throw to the big or it’s going across court. He’s never just going to make that. So that vertical spacing is critical for him because he either want that late or he want that cross court pass for the three. So you need that vertical spacing. If you don’t have a vertical spacing big, then you ain’t hitting on that, then he can’t get that pass which means you stay at home, which he means he can’t get to his sh*t so he needs that. Now what you do with that step back three on that left corner, I have no clue what you do with that.” (Via @wynetwork)