Adam Kilgore recently wrote a beautiful, insightful piece about how LaMarcus Ladridge has fit into the Spurs' "balletic motion system" so far.
The whole article is worth a read but I primarily wanted to bring out this quote, from the man himself Gregg Popovich.
"If anything, he's deferred too much," Popovich said. "He's had open shots and hasn't taken them. He's probably done the right thing, for a good-character guy. He wants to fit in. He's deferred to other players. He's moved the ball when probably he should have shot it.
"So now I'm going to him and saying, ‘No, no, no, no, no.