{"id":281039,"date":"2025-11-13T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281039\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:54:09","slug":"bucks-ryan-rollins-has-a-secret-skill-that-hes-doing-better-than-anyone-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281039\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks&#8217; Ryan Rollins has a secret skill that he&#8217;s doing better than anyone in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Rollins has taken the NBA by storm in the early going for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to notice the points and assists totals for the talented point guard who was once a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> second-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s something Rollins is doing better than anyone in the entire NBA, and it&#8217;s subtler.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins is the king of deflections.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t seem like anyone in the league could keep up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawks<\/a> star Dyson Daniels in that stat. It was one of the reasons Daniels felt like he was robbed a bit for not winning 2025 Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>This season, though, Rollins is outdoing Daniels in deflections, pretty substantiatlly.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this chart and stat from The Sporting News&#8217; Stephen Noh:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Last year, no one was even close to Dyson Daniels in terms of deflections\/steals.<\/p>\n<p>This year, there is a surprising new disruptions king: Ryan Rollins, who has 11 more deflections while playing 22 less minutes. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N3TmhvoCyJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/N3TmhvoCyJ<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oQ3NIB8eS1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oQ3NIB8eS1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steph Noh (@StephNoh) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephNoh\/status\/1989012306559398193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/nba-king-queen-ace-joker\/e6a3b9d585d54d3ff497f144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The NBA currently has a King, a Queen, an Ace and a Joker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Rollins can keep that up, his impact on this Bucks season will be even greater than it has initially seemed.<\/p>\n<p>Point guard was a major question for Milwaukee this season. Damian Lillard tore his Achilles and then was traded away, so it wasn&#8217;t clear how the Bucks would fill his spot.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins (with good backup minutes from Cole Anthony) has done it as well as Milwaukee could&#8217;ve hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you watch the Bucks, keep on eye on Rollins&#8217; hands defensively. It won&#8217;t be long until he&#8217;s getting in the way of the basketball.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Rollins has taken the NBA by storm in the early going for the Milwaukee Bucks. 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