Lesson I: Robert Covington Does More Than Score
A player with the skill sets of Robert Covington offers a basketball coach a true smorgasbord of skillsets. The guy can block, steal, rebound, shoot layups and corner threes. In fact, there is little he cannot do.
And so, when he has a scoring slump, head coach Brett Brown does not panic. In fact, as he always seems to do, he focuses on the positives:
Brown: "I wished everybody would see what we see defensively. Andrew Wiggins was 2-15. Think about that. And that's Robert Covington."
— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) January 4, 2017
For the game, Robert Covington was a one-man-band. He scored 15 points, pulled in 11 rebounds, stole the ball 5 times, handed out an assist and rejected a shot. While fans focus on the obvious stat, scores, Covington is proving why he was one of Hinkie’s favorite prodigies.