Miami Heat: 3 Reasons Precious Achiuwa ends up better than Jalen Smith
Miami Heat: 3 Reasons Precious ends up better than Jalen Smith: NBA Application
Both of the the guys are tweeners, if you want to be completely honest. In today’s NBA though, that’s, not only, quite alright but actually somewhat… desired.
NBA Application Of Game/Play-Style
If you are a middle-sized big guy, whatever that means but as illustrated in the fact of that’s what guys like P.J. Tucker or Draymond Green are, then you have a strong place in this league. While Smith does have a bit of size, at 6’10”, he plays like one of the guys that’s around 6’8″ or so, which isn’t a knock on his game but simply, a reference to his playing style.
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While Precious is closer to Tucker’s and Green’s size, that’s just a labeling thing and not the most important here. Where they both want to be mid-outside to inside players, Smith doesn’t have the other tools that Precious does.
Those tools could separate him from, not only, Smith but a few others as well. Precious has the handle, the quicks (both laterally and straight-line), the explosiveness, the frame to add weight without compromising that other stuff, the motor, and the versatility to be able to capitalize and better apply that style than Smith does.
That’s reason number two.