Dillingham earned praise from Finch for his effort on the defensive end, but that\u2019s a work in progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe physicality, getting over screens,\u201d Finch said. \u201cHow NBA defense is, is nowhere near college or anywhere else. You really got to be able to practice this and do it to learn it, because it\u2019s not something you can talk and tell someone how to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Conley has been giving him plenty of pointers, even with Dillingham being the the apparent heir to Conley at point guard. During five-on-five drills, Conley said he\u2019ll stop and explain to Dillingham what he could be doing defensively. Conley said part of his responsibility is getting Dillingham ready for the future, both immediate and long-term. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m telling him, \u2018Hey, the screen\u2019s coming\u2019 and \u2018Get your leg over this way,\u2019 just trying to make sure he\u2019s getting the stuff right in real time,\u201d Conley said. \u201cBecause I know this will be his show, whether it\u2019s now or six months or a year, whatever it is, it\u2019s his thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he\u2019s got to be able to process and be able to, for the moment, learn as much as he can.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillingham earned praise from Finch for his effort on the defensive end, but that\u2019s a work in progress.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-217130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}