Imagine, for a minute, a version of Davion Mitchell who can consistently knock down a high volume of jump shots. Depending on how much value you assign to pick-up-basketball takeaways, neither you nor me nor the Miami Heat have to imagine for much longer.
Speaking on a recent episode of The Kevin O’Connor Show, TrueHoop’s David Thorpe waxed poetic about Mitchell cracking the code to improve his jump shot. “I saw Davion in L.A. this summer playing pick-up,” he said (h/t Luca Rosano of NBA Analysis). “It’s just pick-up basketball, but I thought he had great command.