Chicago Bulls: 3 Players Coby White should study in the playoffs
The Chicago Bulls are spectators of the NBA Playoffs this year, but that doesn’t mean they can’t gain something out of it. After a disappointing finish to the season, the Bulls can dive immediately dive into working on being better next season.
This is especially true for the team’s young players. It’s important for young players to spend off-seasons early in their career improving both physically and mentally. That brings us to Coby White, the Bulls point guard that just wrapped up his second NBA season.
White’s season was a bit of a roller-coaster, not unlike his first year in the NBA. This time, though, it ended on a much better note and there is a lot of reason to be excited about what’s to come for the former North Carolina Tar Heel.
The NBA season can be physically exhausting, especially so early in a player’s career. Things are made worse this year because of the change to scheduling the NBA had to implement. White can take a major step forward this off-season with the proper approach and work put in.
Not only is there the chance to watch former players and study them to improve his game, but he can also take advantage of the games he is watching live. One would assume most NBA players at least watch some basketball in their free time.
The more studying, if done correctly, a player does, the quicker he can get to where he wants to be as an NBA player. That is especially true for point guards as it is a very big transition from the college game to the professional game.
As many know, White isn’t the most traditional or natural point guard but is a bit of a scoring guard. Some would say he needs to play more of a shooting guard role in the league but that is not necessarily true if he takes the proper steps in the coming years.
Plenty of scoring guards are great players. Scoring can be a lead guard’s natural instinct as long as they have the other tools and know how to use them. Think about Damian Lillard or Derrick Rose in his Bulls years, both have the natural instinct to score the ball but are successful NBA point guards.