01-17-2025, 01:45 PM
(01-17-2025, 10:42 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Easy. He's hurting them on defense when he plays now, in the regular season, when teams have less opportunity to game plan and exploit weaknesses. One of the most common weaknesses good teams try to exploit on any team is to get the other team's slowest player, almost always a big, into defensive rotation and move the ball until it finds a shooter to which said slow player isn't able to close out, hopefully in the corner, which is the most efficient shot from the three point line. I'd say more than half of the guys playing center in the NBA become pumpkins in a 7-game series against one of the top 6-8 offenses.
When it gets down to the good teams, everyone can shoot. Period.
It's surprising to me that people are forgetting how ineffective he became when the games became important. He was pretty bad against the Thunder and the Celtics. Gafford is very fun to watch and is great when he has a center he can bully around but if you let that happen again this postseason with a healthy Maxi on the bench then I would say that's poor coaching.