Here’s What Marvin Bagley III Is Showing With The Washington Wizards

Here’s What Marvin Bagley III Is Showing With The Washington Wizards

We’re always going to wonder if things would have been any different for Marvin Bagley III if he wasn’t the player picked ahead of Luca donic in the 2018 NBA draft baggley was chosen second overall by Sacramento and donic third by Atlanta before his rights were traded to

Dallas now on his third team and in his sixth NBA season maybe just maybe this new environment in the nation’s capital is going to change the narrative around the 24 y old out of Duke it’s just four games and all Washington losses at that but baggley has been quite impressive in

His new digs with the Wizards he’s averaging 18 points and 11.3 rebounds shooting 58% from the floor since January 18th which was the date of his first game with Washington Bagley has the sixth best field goal percentage among the 72 players who have attempted at least 40 shots on top of that among

Those 72 players baggley has the shortest average shot distance at 5.7 ft suggesting he’s playing to his strengths he already has nine dunks since the trade last season in 42 games with Detroit he had 27 dunks and his average shot distance was 9.7 ft watching the footage you can see how

Active he is around the rim several of his made baskets have been putbacks off Miss Shots by teammates he’s just so springy that this is something he has the potential to lead the league in if he gets enough playing Time the other thing that has always stood out to me is that he has really good hands and he’s quick to go up following the catch I really like him as a lob threat as well you get the right point guard with him that collapses defenses and makes On Target alley you

Tosses I can see baggley ranking near the top in lob finishes earlier in his career he was often playing playing alongside another big like rwn Holmes with the Kings and then the last couple years with Isaiah Stewart James Weissman and Jaylen Duran with the Pistons I feel confidently that you can’t play him

Alongside another big the further he gets away from the basket the less effective He Is We Know shooting and self-creating are not his strengths and they probably never will be the bottom line with baggley is that you have to keep the game simple with him it’s screen and rolls Cuts running the floor

And crashing the glass to me that’s how he maximizes his skills he’s just not polished enough nor crafty enough to ask him to generate offense mixing in spot ups and self-created drives of course is fine but that can’t be as meat and potatoes that’s just the gravy as you

Can see from these clips when he puts the ball on the floor and tries creating he doesn’t have enough in his bag or a good enough touch the biggest problem though with him Manning the center position is that you don’t have much Rim protection or effective switch ability

On defense in pick and roll coverages and in isolation this season baggley ranks in the bottom 10 among qualified non-g guards in defending shots in isolation he’s active and willing to take on challenges it seems but he’s not the quickest laterally and he doesn’t show much resistance what he does do

Though is take charges he has seven of them this season and he’s taken 24 of them in his Career now with Wes unel Jr moving into a front office role and Brian Keefe named interm head coach we’ll see how bagly is utilized going forward so that’ll wrap up this video If you like this kind of content please subscribe

Marvin Bagley III has gotten off to an impressive start with the Wizards. Here’s what he is showing early on. #nba #marvinbagley #washingtonwizards #wizards