DLo has Elite Floor Vision and Passing Ability.... Yes, there are flat and lazy passes, that lead to turnovers... Those happen, sometimes you think a guy has his guy boxed out, or has good position, and he didn't..... Or the pass just comes out of the hand flat... See an elite pitcher, Masahiro Tanaka for example... He's an Ace. His splitter is ridiculous, but on occasion it hangs, and he ends up giving up homeruns. They typically decrease with experience.
But where Russell has elite floor vision is evident in some of the angles he uses to make a pass, he has an ability to get a pass in that not too many guys can make. Even if the pass becomes a turnover, it's fine, he's trying to figure out the way to get it through. How he needs to bounce it, where and when he has to throw it.
He's also credited with a lot of turnovers that guys were just not ready to handle, or were not looking when they should have been. Or in Mozgov's case, they blow the shot somehow at the rim, or Deng missing a wide open 3. You can count on both of those happening once a game.
He also has a great shooting stroke. Was shooting 39% from deep before the knee injury, shooting 36.7% since coming back from the injury, and that's been considered a slump.
He's also elite at navigating the P&R, and getting a guy on his hip, and drawing the defense... Where he needs improvement on it though, is that when he's taking a shot, he's often leaning way too far forward, and it throws off all his range of motion and mechanics. Often that lean forward is what he's relying on. When he goes straight up, he's very reliable.
Some of you are unable to see the trees for the forest.
Will he be elite? Who the hell knows. There's very few guarantees of anybody.
But there is plenty to point to him being far better than average. That is point trying to be made.
And with all the limitations, that he is said to have, he's still performing. The idea or the issue is many are basically saying he can never improve. When Year 1 to Year 2 has shown that he can, and has.
What's even more fun about it, is how quick guys are to trade Russell & Randle for the guys they call elite (rightfully so), who are currently the leader on terrible teams. As if gutting the team for that guy wouldn't be the same exact thing that elite player is currently doing.
Let the young guys develop, and then add elite players on top. That's the only way this team will win down the line.
