05-18-2024, 12:00 PM
(05-18-2024, 11:59 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: Who handles our defense? One of the comments by Lowe and also on his most recent podcast, is that Lively has been playing a pseudo zone by himself. He says this is confusing the Thunder some. He guards someone and then moves away from that player and OKC can't get a read on him. I hadn't really noticed that. Anyone else notice this ahead of time?
It's that same scheme they invented not long after the trade, where "everyone rotates around one person." Learning this tactic is why they had that stretch of really bad defense right before they turned up and had the 20 game stretch of #1 defensive ranking.