Danny Sees the Potential with Alex Sarr

Danny Rouhier is impressed not by the numbers, but by the look of what Alex Sarr has done in his first few NBA Summer League games.

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00:00I see what they see and Alex are, we've got a couple of games.

00:03The numbers for him aren't, aren't great and he hasn't shot it particularly well, et cetera.

00:08But I don't know about you guys.

00:09If you guys watched it and if you did hit me, hit me with a tweet at funny Danny, but

00:14I see what they see, I think in Alex are the way he moves around.

00:22Some of those flashes, those moments where he had those three blocks and 40 seconds,

00:25for example, clearly not comfortable just yet down around the basket, getting pushed

00:30around some by a couple of guys moved off the ball for, um, you know, our rebounding

00:36purposes kind of, you know, went flying like a, like a real undersized guy.

00:40And he's not, he'll, he'll grow into his body.

00:42He'll get a lot stronger.

00:43The physicality is going to be a legit adjustment coming from Euro stuff coming into the United

00:46States.

00:47You're still going to have in the NBA moments where men are going to try you.

00:51So you see now why they go get a balance, Eunice, why they go grab a guy like that

00:56to prevent him from having to deal with somebody like that.

00:58Does that make sense?

00:59If you make him play the five early on in his career, he's going to get pushed around.

01:03He's going to get beat up a little bit.

01:04Now it might be a matchup advantage where it's nice.

01:06You could, you can bring that big five away from the basket and create some space, but

01:10it's something they probably don't want to ask him to do just yet.

01:12He's a small ball five eventually, I think as he gets stronger, but I see what they see.

01:17He is athletic.

01:18He is smooth.

01:19There was one sequence in that first game where he posts up high, a little bit past

01:25the foul line extended, catches the ball with his back to the basket, dribble handoff into

01:30a screen, receives a little flare right back, shot fake, slides to the left, hits a step

01:35back three, and you go, that guy's 7'2".

01:39And it looked like a John Morant kind of move.

01:42It looked like a 6'2", uber athletic star kind of move.

01:46And again, he hasn't shot it great and settles a little bit too much for jumpers at this

01:50stage, but you can see it, man.

01:52You can see the oozing of potential from that kid.