{"id":77530,"date":"2022-09-25T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-practice-notebook-early-look-at-kevon-looney-james-wiseman-center-combination\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T10:28:07","slug":"warriors-practice-notebook-early-look-at-kevon-looney-james-wiseman-center-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-practice-notebook-early-look-at-kevon-looney-james-wiseman-center-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors practice notebook: Early look at Kevon Looney-James Wiseman center combination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kevon Looney and James Wiseman spent the final portion of the Warriors&#8217; first practice working together in a condensed setting.  Dejan Milojevi\u0107 \u2014 the Serbian big man coach entering his second season as an assistant \u2014 had Looney and Wiseman posting up against each other.  All the instruction was tilted in Wiseman&#8217;s direction, from both the coach and the veteran teammate.<\/p>\n<p>On one particular possession, Wiseman began his gather for a hook shot but left the ball exposed.  Looney reached his hand in for a strip.  Wiseman expressed some frustration.  Looney called him over to explain why he was able to cause the turnover and how to better protect against that type of defensive attack.<\/p>\n<p>It was the type of lesson that was impossible a season ago because there was no chance for Milojevi\u0107 and Looney to take Wiseman through full-speed trial-and-error drills.  He was limited to knee rehab and low-stress individual work.  Finally, in his third NBA season, he&#8217;s cleared for his first training camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a lot easier to teach somebody or even learn when you&#8217;re on the court with somebody,\u201d Looney said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching Loon the last couple years has helped James,\u201d Steve Kerr said.  \u201cBut now playing against him, he&#8217;ll be able to see and feel those tricks of the trade Loon is so good with \u2014 flipping the screen, catching the ball in the pocket, (dribble handoffs), all those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe play the same position, same offense,\u201d Looney said.  \u201cHe can help me, I can help him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n        fbq('init', '207679059578897');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevon Looney and James Wiseman spent the final portion of the Warriors&#8217; first practice working together in a condensed setting. Dejan Milojevi\u0107 \u2014 the Serbian big man coach entering his second season as an assistant \u2014 had Looney and Wiseman posting up against each other. All the instruction was tilted in Wiseman&#8217;s direction, from both &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-practice-notebook-early-look-at-kevon-looney-james-wiseman-center-combination\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warriors practice notebook: Early look at Kevon Looney-James Wiseman center combination<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[1223],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25922,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/what-james-wiseman-learned-most-from-kevon-looneys-breakout-season\/","url_meta":{"origin":77530,"position":0},"title":"What James Wiseman learned most from Kevon Looney&#8217;s breakout season","date":"July 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"LAS VEGAS -- When the Warriors hired Dejan Milojevi\u0107 as an assistant coach last August, the most important part to his title was missing. 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