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Isaiah Thomas: For Monte Morris, “the sky’s the limit”

The brush strokes are still there, if you look close enough. A masterpiece of a jumper is the light work of many hands. But when it came to Monte Morris, it was two mitts in particular that would drive Fred Hoiberg up a freaking wall.

“I didn’t work a lot with the guide hand; It was more the release, where he was releasing the ball,” Hoiberg, the former collegiate and NBA coach, told The Post this week when asked about Morris, the Nuggets guard he’d tutored at Iowa State. “Making sure his release was consistent. And his balance, when he first got here.