09-05-2020, 06:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2020, 09:19 PM by KillerLeft.)
(09-05-2020, 12:06 PM)MrGoat Wrote: 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?
Fair enough - I thought Wright was actually quite physical on the ball at times this year, and I feel like if he would just shoot when he's open, he might've been a good tool to guard the Dame/CJ/Mitchel/Booker types, though obviously not the Lebron/Kawhi types. It's ok for us to disagree about this, because the resulting observation is the same. It didn't work out.
Agreed on MKG. I'm not even interested in bringing him back.
Giannis isn't taking much heat yet, but he will as soon as they're eliminated. So far, it's all directed at the coach, who doesn't seem to understand many things that go on in today's game. For one thing, he's very anti-switching on defense, which one would think the team with Giannis would be super excited to do. He's also refusing to play his best players, Giannis included, more than 30-36 minutes. In the playoffs. The list could go on and on, but essentially, he's catching the heat, not Giannis.
To me, what's truly wrong with Milwaukee is that they haven't figured out that, although Giannis CAN handle the ball, he shouldn't be the main initiator of the offense. He needs a ball-handling play maker to play with.