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Message: [QUOTE="cuse522, post: 1727188, member: 1149"] G might be faster in a straight line once he's moving, but Malachi's first step is much better. G can't get around high level opponents. When he goes up against guards as tall as him and relatively fast laterally, he can't get around them and he can't shoot over them. Basically G is athletic enough and good enough at everything to be in a very high percentile in college, whether that's the 80th or 90th, I don't know. So against most opponents he can do very well, but against the ones that he'd face in the NBA, he struggles to create much for himself. He's smart enough to play within himself in those scenarios usually, but still that won't get it done in the NBA. Malachi can handle elite defenders because he has a little more quickness, a faster release, etc. He proved it against Brogdon. [/QUOTE]