Cinco de Mayo

Hakim has two offensive moves.

1) Post-up, throw one pump fake and then try and dunk it on two or three people from a standstill position six feet away from the basket.

2) Catch the ball 12-15 feet away from the basket, throw one pump fake and then do a turnaround fadeaway that misses half the time and gets blocked another quarter of the time.

I don't see him improving drastically. He seems like a hard worker and a good kid, but he's 24 years old. He also has some of the worst ball skills in the league, and any time he puts it on the floor, it's a turnover waiting to happen. Without question, he has hops and knows how to dunk, but he can't put the ball on the floor in order to get to the basket, and he's too small/wiry to be able to create enough space down in the paint.

I don't know what he'd be like in transition because Mike Fratello is the coach.

Definitely a flawed player, especially in our molasses offensive system.

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