Quick Hits: Mo Wague's Growth, Double-Teams Coming for Stevenson? + More

The team's defense

"I think we're all better. Keddy [Johnson] has been very consistently good except for when he's been banged up and he's been banged up quite a bit. I think we're a lot better defensively. Playing harder."

Playing Kedrian Johnson and Joe Toussaint together

"I guess I probably would have done it all along if I wasn't worried about making sure we had a point guard left. You got to be careful with those guys because if they're inside they put their hands on people, they push people, they pull on people. On the perimeter, you can't hardly touch anybody. So I just didn't want both of those guys in foul trouble at the same time. Otherwise I would have played them both together way more."

If teams will start double-teaming Erik Stevenson

"I'm sure they're going to put an emphasis on guarding him. They'll probably switch everything. They switch a lot anyway. They'll probably try to take him to the loaded side of the floor where they can get help there faster."

How to get the most out of this team

"We got to guard better. But we have guarded better. I think their approach has been better. The fact of the matter is, if everybody played to their potential, we're really good. Everybody hasn't. Erik's just starting to play to what we all thought Erik would be. Tre [Mitchell] carried us for a while. And now he's struggling just a little bit. Jimmy [Bell] is scoring it better down there. Mo [Wague] is scoring it better down there. James [Okonkwo] has gotten exponentially better. So, I don't think anybody would say that we're like the team that we were. We're not. I think we're better."

How far Mohamed Wague can go

"As far as he wants to go. The weight room is going to be critical for him, particularly lower body. But he's long, he's athletic, he's got great feet. I mean, it's all out there for him. It's just, is he going to put the time and the effort in to make it come to fruition because he is talented enough.

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