sunsbg wrote:Saberestar wrote:Yuta Watanabe will play in less than a couple hours his first game in the FIBA World Cup. He is the only Suns player in the tournament.
Japan - Germany
Almost remained without Suns players after it appeared he got injured on his 20th point dunk. Looks unathletic and injury prone. Mostly doing damage from midrange and apparently missed a lot of 3s in first half which I missed.
He played a good game. 20 points, 6 boards, 2 assists and 2 blocks. 9/19 shooting.
Two bad things today:
He missed too many threes, he ended 2/10.
He isn’t an strong rebounder. He looks way better defending perimeter players other than frontcourt/big players. Theis particularly dominated him around the rim with his positioning and strength.
I think he is gonna be great as a bench role player on the Suns. He will probably play most of his minutes next to KD or KBD, so I think he will defend SFs most of the time.