Georges Niang is one of the NBA’s best rags-to-riches success stories of the past few seasons, a guy who, in a year, went from a fringe prospect to legitimate rotation guy.
Well, first of all, Niang put in a ton of work. More specifically, though, he put in work with Martin Schiller.
Schiller is the head coach of the Jazz’s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars. That title, however, does not really do justice to explaining what his job is. Far more important than accumulating wins against the likes of the Maine Red Claws or Rio Grande Valley Vipers is the progress that Stars players make toward becoming functional NBA players.