The speed of the NBA game is one of its biggest appeals, and a key reason why its talent level seems so impenetrably high compared to other professional leagues. “Fast” takes on a new, relative meaning when you’re speaking exclusively of a group of top-flight athletes, and so does the word “slow.”
This is all to say, in the NBA sense of the word, Kyle Anderson is not fast. I wouldn’t put money on myself or most of the readers of this blog to beat him in a foot race but, among his contemporaries, the nickname “Slow Mo” is absolutely fitting, and that’s a descriptor that should spell doom for a wing player lacking a reliable, threatening outside shot.