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Nuggets beat writer says what Jazz fans already knew about Lauri Markkanen

Related Topics: Lauri Markkanen, Tim Legler

When Lauri Markkanen's name showed up in headlines over the course of last season, it was for all the wrong reasons. Over the past few weeks, he's been the talk of the town from his dominant EuroBasket play. In so doing, national writers are recognizing why he's so good, which coincidentally is something Utah Jazz fans know already: how good he is at attacking off the ball.

Denver Nuggets writer Adam Mares delved into this while talking with Tim Legler during the "All NBA Podcast" yesterday.

"He is a guy who is very good moving off ball, catch it, cut, do different things, but he's not maybe a guy you just want to straight iso all the time.