If you start thinking about how the season went, we improved a lot as a team. Now Rubio is being asked to have the same impact back where his NBA career began with a team that looks very similar to the squad he just left.
What I bring to the table. Helping the team be better and helping the young teams grow and help the talent already here. Get the best out of them.
I can be put in every situation. I know Ryan is a coach who gives the players what is earned. This season, only 3. Last season, Booker ran off screens 9. When Rubio and Russell share the floor, the Timberwolves have a net rating of The offensive rating plummets to Yet, these two have played minutes together.
Thirty-two of these minutes have come in the fourth quarter, where they have a much more respectable net rating of Those numbers hurt so much to read that I literally sat here just staring at my screen for five minutes before finding the words to pick up again. I want to blame the coaching staff for routinely putting these two together, but I understand their reasoning to play two of their top paid and experienced guys. It makes sense. This coaching staff has plenty of faults, including their stubborn persistence to make this pairing work, but the more I dig, the more I turn some of the blame back to Rubio.
Even when we remove Russell from the equation, Rubio only has one five-man lineup that he has played more than ten minutes with a positive net rating. They have played 38 minutes together and have a net rating of 7. Other than that, every other five-man lineup that has Rubio without Russell has a negative net rating. Suppose we further dilute the parameters to two-man lineups. There are so few scenarios in which Rubio is a positive contributor on the court, and it is heartbreaking.
But first, he and his teammates had to go through the glad-handing that comes with a massive achievement like their World Cup win. Spain is a soccer country, and a lot of people were talking about just basketball for weeks.
So it was really special. He remembers the glory of winning the U gold medal in the European Championships and how small that victory felt just a few weeks later when he watched the national team—then led by Pau Gasol—win the FIBA World Cup.
Soon after, Rubio, along with the other high-level Spanish players of his generation, got to work building the same type of cohesion they saw in their older peers.
Scariolo has seen Rubio go from a quiet early-bloomer to a vocal leader with veteran status. It took years, Rubio says, countless dinners, card games on planes, and practices to develop the fun environment and synergy that helped his team win it all in China.
Hearing Rubio speak about the experience, you get the sense that the differences between basketball at the international level and basketball in the NBA are more clear to him than most players. One is a dream come true—the other is a dream job. That self-awareness, combined with the evolution of his leadership, makes Rubio a valuable new addition to Phoenix. Contact Ricky. Official Website.
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