A real good friend of mine played bball in college (admittedly not at a top school) and just lives and breathes basketball.

I disagree with him on a lot of things, but he goes to every Pels game and he told me while Hawkins was on that run "He will get benched soon, he doesn't have a clue out there". I thought he was nuts.

Just one of those take it for what its worth. Maybe he just wasn't doing anything he needed to do besides shoot.

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Posted by shel311

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Posted on 5/2/24 at 10:36 am to Fun Bunch

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I disagree with him on a lot of things, but he goes to every Pels game and he told me while Hawkins was on that run "He will get benched soon, he doesn't have a clue out there". I thought he was nuts.

Just one of those take it for what its worth. Maybe he just wasn't doing anything he needed to do besides shoot.

If he's just not putting in the word in practice, I can buy that excuse.

But many rookies don't know what they're doing, and they get playing time, and that's how they figure it out.

But even with not knowing what he was doing, he was still doing some things really well.

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Posted by whatiknowsofar

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Posted on 5/2/24 at 10:41 am to Fun Bunch

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but he goes to every Pels game and he told me while Hawkins was on that run "He will get benched soon, he doesn't have a clue out there". I thought he was nuts.

He was absolutely right, its a lot of spacing issues. Hawkins got lost on the court constantly on both sides. Did he run plays correctly yes, but he didn't know what to do with switches on defense, would run to the corner on offense with another player already cutting there, etc. He looked like Dyson a lot year one in that regard. It's going to take time and reps to get him right. This offseason I would expect to see a huge leap from him just from a spacing standpoint.

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