Basketball Intelligence for 3/3/23

The Day's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis

TEAM-SPECIFIC STORIES

ATL: How Quin Snyder Can Save The Hawks
Mike Shearer, Basketball Poetry

ATL: Hawks rookie AJ Griffin on pushing through rookie wall
Lauren Williams, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BOS: How Al Horford turned his lost seasons into a Celtics success story
Jake Fischer, Yahoo Sports

He entered the Thunder’s player development laboratory, where OKC’s staff approached the veteran with the same tutelage of their young prospects. Assistant coach Dave Bliss drilled Horford on tricky nuances of defending modern pick-and-roll schemes. The Thunder wanted Horford to practice relocating along the perimeter and launching jumpers on the move, instead of being rendered to the corner or stationed above the arc as he did while watching Embiid’s post touches.