Nets should dare Giannis Antetokounmpo to keep shooting 3s
NY Post
Let’s say you’re Mike Trout, the best everyday baseball player on the planet, and you walk into the Angels’ clubhouse one day and see you’re going to be the closer for that night’s game with the Mariners. Crazy, right? Trout isn’t his teammate, Shoehei Ohtani. You’re one or the other. There have been 20,021 players in MLB history. Almost all picked one or the other.
Let’s say you’re Patrick Mahomes, the best football player on the planet, and you walk into the Chiefs’ locker room for that afternoon’s tilt with the Chargers and Andy Reid sidles up next you and says, “I think I’m going to use you as the long-snapper today.” Crazy, right? Chuck Bednarik has been retired since 1962, dead since 2015. You do what you do well. If you watched Game 3 of the Bucks-Nets series, you know where this is going, because Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the three or four best basketball players in the world right now. He is 6-foot-11 and 245 pounds, built like a brick wall, graceful and powerful at the same time, a deadeye in the paint, not bad up to 15 feet out.
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