{"id":142661,"date":"2020-04-07T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=142661"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:58:48","slug":"wizards-gm-we-need-a-rim-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wizards-gm-we-need-a-rim-protector\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards GM: We need a rim protector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wizards GM Tommy Sheppard <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/1723186\/2020\/04\/04\/looking-for-defensive-consistency-wizards-making-plans-for-next-season\/\">talks with Fred Katz of the Athletic<\/a> about the team&#8217;s plans for the offseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re gonna improve defensively, and a lot of that is by repetition and continuity. We certainly look inside. Maybe we can get some more physicality there and get some more help out on the wings. I think we need a rim protector,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that helps a lot defensively to keep people out of the paint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the NBA Draft:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You wanna draft for your need if it\u2019s possible. But if it\u2019s not possible, you don\u2019t just grab somebody to grab them. You do, \u2018Hey, is there somebody else that can add value to your roster?\u2019 And maybe that person is very interesting to some other team \u2014 whatever. But I don\u2019t think we can say today, \u2018Hey, this is exactly who we need,\u2019 because that player is just not gonna be in college or free agency<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before the suspension the Wizards had the worst defense of the league, with a defensive rating (points allowed x 100 possessions) of 115, over 13 points more than the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the suspension the Wizards had the worst defense of the league<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-142661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142661"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=142661"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=142661"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=142661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}