How OG Anunoby evolved into the player the Knicks had to have
NY Post
DALLAS — It was fitting and predictable, given what OG Anunoby has demonstrated in the NBA, that his introduction to the mainstream basketball world was a defensive performance.
Anunoboy’s Indiana squad was facing high-powered and high-ranked Kentucky in the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament. Just an 18-year-old freshman, Anunoby stifled Jamal Murray, the current Nuggets star, and alternated between guarding 6-foot-11 center Skal Labissiere and 5-9 guard Tyler Ulis.
Anunoby’s defensive positional versatility, the kernel of his value to the Knicks, was on full display.
“Tyler was player of the year in the SEC, and he couldn’t get by OG,” Tom Crean recalled to The Post. “He’s got such a low center of gravity for as big as he is because he stays low. And he can guard multiple dribbles. And what he can really do is change direction.”
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