Many athletes give cliched answers and rarely say what they are really thinking, so kudos to Patrick Patterson for his honesty. “Patrick is doing a great job of playing with the basketball off the dribble,” Casey said. Last year at this time he was turning down three-point shots and now he’s taking what the game’s giving. He’s doing a much better job of taking it. I think last year this time he was working on his pump-fake drive, but now he’s taking the shots, he’s knocking it down, he’s doing a good job of mixing it up.

Source: National Post October 19, 2016 17:15 UTC