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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 5214045, member: 237"]
Also the X’s and O’s On Maliq - in that short roll he has to be able to either drive his man( or back him down) to the rim, kick it or hit the open shot. He is a below the rim guy for the most part and while having good size he’s not a big post up guy and thus the first option he is limited and his handle is effective but nothing special. He’s not aggressive enough or confident enough in his jump shot to pop that open jumper consistently. That leaves the pass which is his top skill playing in that set. Without being a threat to do anything but pass, teams will not help and will play him accordingly as they did against the short roll as last year went along once Red started using it much more.

Seeing him so far at Duke he hasn’t gotten more aggressive with his shot or improved in being more aggressive. To me that shows that those limitations would still be evident and he is still a specialist( albeit a very good one at that). I hope he finds a system where that role for 30 minutes a game is exactly what a team needs.
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