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How Nate Bjorkgren is deploying Domantas Sabonis like Pascal Siakam

With just over six minutes to play in the third quarter of Indiana’s preseason finale against the Philadelphia 76ers, Domantas Sabonis did the opposite of what has come to be expected from him. Typically seen in his natural habitat at the center of the wagon wheel, operating out of the elbows as a hub for his teammates to drive, fade, feign, cut, and shoot, the 6-foot-11 big man suddenly migrated into being one of the whirling spokes, putting pressure on the basket after receiving the same type of pitch from Malcolm Brogdon that he would normally throw.