2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[DanSchwartzgan]

Maxi is the better one-on-one defender against super-bigger-wings (lets asume he's over long covid), but Powell is the better team defender.

He struggles when left on a island with Randle or JV but this kind of offense seems to cost the other team over time.

DP is never clogging anything with Luka having the ball.
- If the big is staying under the basket, it's an automatic open three after the pick or one further pass.
- If they are trapping -  see last game. By the way nobody even tries trapping with KP on the court more than once.
- if the big is showing that's when KP can cut and  I love that.

You could say a roleman setting a pick frees up KP , because he doesn't have to set a pick then.

I agree with your point regarding D.  It is certainly better than essentially saying "the seven defensive stats you gave us are flawed, but this one that I picked (the only one that shows Maxi as the better defender), it actually paints an accurate picture".   

I also agree with your point on "clogging".  Almost every NBA team uses a non 3 point shooting center in their rotation.  In fact, on some teams that's all they have.  Yet lesser offensive players than KP seem to be able to make it work at PF.