2019-20 Around the NBA: Archived

[MrGoat]

By no metrics is Wright an impact defender. A passable one yes, maybe slightly over average. You can tell that this team is really lacking defense if we're throwing around the term impact defender to describe Delon Wright. Our defensive rating in the Clippers series was 121.4 as a team, that's only the 4th worst defensive single season playoff performance of all time and doesn't happen to a team that doesn't have a problem with doesn't have trouble finding defensive players

I agree with your assessment of the team, but not of Wright. I think he IS an impact player, but due to him being an insanely poor fit on offense, he was literally unplayable. An impact defender can't impact the game from the bench, which is where Wright was in the Clippers series. 

Maybe I'm missing your point. If your message is that Wright isn't good enough to make a defensive impact from the bench, then yes, I agree completely. But it seems like you're using the Clippers series to support an argument that Wright isn't an impact defender, which seems odd since he played a total of 53 minutes in that series. 

And, to be clear, I'm not claiming that Carlisle should've played him. I wouldn't have given him as many chances as he got this season, to be honest, and I'm in no way attempting to make the claim that his acquisition was a success. But, when he got those chances, I do think he demonstrated a high capability on one side of the floor.

To be clear about what I mean I just don't think he makes enough of a defensive impact to be called an impact player. In the regular season the on off difference was negligible. He can get some steals here and there and is competent at man to man defense, but he lacks physicality and his team defense has some holes. Pretty much the exact same story when he was in Toronto as well. He's no Marcus Smart is what I'm saying, that's more of the kind of guy at his position I would call an impact defender

I think the impact defender who's so bad on offense he's unplayable tag is more applicable to MKG who is a much better defender than Wright but unplayably bad on offense

Unrelated note, am I really seeing that the Bucks are down 3-0? And people got mad at me for calling Giannis a choker last year... I haven't been watching, is it Giannis' fault?