08-10-2021, 10:49 AM
(08-10-2021, 10:33 AM)mvossman Wrote: I have no idea where this is coming from. The advanced stats say he is bad at defense. The scouting reports say he is bad at defense. The eye test says he is bad at defense. The fact that he got benched in Chicago for defensive limitations suggests he is bad at defense. The evidence seems overwhelming. He can't protect the rim, and he can't guard the perimeter particularly well. For a team that is already struggling with defense, has plenty of shooting, needs playmaking, and probably already has too much cap devoted to the big rotation, he does not make a lot of sense. The only reason to do this is if we can turn him into an asset, but I skeptical given suggested assets and cost.
Outside of Luka/DFS, the rest of the team shot 15/74 from three (20%) over the last four play-off games against the Clippers. You better be hell a great at defense, if you want to win a seven game series with the 3rd to 10th best player shooting 20% from three. We need more offensive talent, too.
As we have seen with the Knicks a headcoach can make a hell of a difference for the team defense, but as the Knicks also learned in the play-offs, offensive talent matters most, and they did not have enough of it, so they added Walker/Fournier.
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