Draymond says KAT ‘mendacity’ about taking 1,500 photographs per day initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Bay Space
Draymond Inexperienced, serving as a TNT analyst, has spent a majority of the 2024 Western Convention finals concentrating on Minnesota Timberwolves heart Rudy Gobert.
However after the Timberwolves’ Sport 3 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, the Warriors ahead turned his consideration to fellow Minnesota huge man Karl-Anthony Cities, who after struggling in Sunday’s 116-107 loss, mentioned he takes not less than 1,500 photographs a day throughout apply.
“Hey Ernie, what ‘cap’ is?” Inexperienced mentioned on TNT’s “Contained in the NBA” following Sunday’s sport.
“Sure,” host Ernie Johnson responded.
“He mendacity,” Inexperienced mentioned. “No person is capturing 1,500 photographs a day proper now.”
Fellow TNT analyst Kenny Smith, a 48 p.c shooter throughout his 10-year NBA profession, agreed with Inexperienced.
“I am a shooter. I by no means took photographs. I did makes,” Smith mentioned. “So to make 300 in a day takes about 45 minutes. So for those who’re taking 1,500, it should take you about two and a half hours. And also you’re already training, so it is cap.”
Cities, an NBA All-Star this season and self-proclaimed biggest capturing huge man in NBA historical past, completed 5-of-18 from the sphere within the Timberwolves’ loss Sunday, together with 0-of-8 from 3-point vary.
“I am placing as much as 1,500 photographs a day and shot so properly all playoffs,” Cities instructed reporters after the sport. “Confidence is extraordinarily excessive and to be having these unlucky bounces and these appears which might be simply not stepping into it is robust. It is robust for certain. Confidence smart, I simply received to maintain capturing.”
Inexperienced did not maintain again on Cities when breaking down what is going on improper for the No. 3-seeded Timberwolves.
“The issue with that’s I really do not assume [Anthony Edwards] has dominated the ball,” Inexperienced mentioned. “If something, I believe he is gotten off of it an excessive amount of. Now, KAT will not have the identical quantity of minutes, seconds that Ant has the ball as a result of he is bringing it up. However I believe when KAT touches the ball, it is really sticking greater than when Ant had the ball.
“So, I do not know. I imply, clearly he must get to the rim however he is simply not answering the bell and that is who KAT’s been in his profession, the place when the going get robust, they are saying he go the opposite manner. So you bought to determine that out.”
Extra Draymond on Karl-Anthony Cities: “He is simply not answering the bell. And that is who KAT’s been in his profession, when the going will get robust, they are saying he goes the opposite manner.” pic.twitter.com/eY74jnViTr
— Terrible Saying (@awfulannouncing) Could 27, 2024
Cities, Gobert and the Timberwolves will try and keep away from being swept by the Mavericks in Sport 4 on Tuesday.
But when Cities and Gobert do not carry out properly Tuesday, anticipate Inexperienced to come back down laborious on them.
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