Right, but Aldemir started at center that game. Whiteside has been quite effective on offense this season. He has a PER of 26.1 and a TS% of 61.4. That's good.
Nobody on Miami is a stretch 4. Noah guarded Chris Anderson, who shoots 70% of his shots from 0-3 feet.
Here is when they played Dirk. http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/1717/tracking/shotslogs/ Pau shows up 4 times. Noah was guarding Dirk 13 times. Pau was mostly guarding the center, Chandler. http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/2199/tracking/shotslogs/?OpponentTeamID=1610612741
Chandler is the weaker offensive player. It isn't that hard to figure out I don't think Boozer guarded Dirk, either. So nothing has changed. Just we have two 7 foot guys instead of one and a 6'8" guy.
Kevin Love http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/201567/tracking/shotslogs/?OpponentTeamID=1610612741 Noah shows up 14 times. Pau shows up 7 times.
ILYASOVA http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/101141/tracking/shotslogs/?OpponentTeamID=1610612741 Noah shows up 14 times. Pau shows up 6 times.
BOsh http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/2547/tracking/shotslogs/?OpponentTeamID=1610612741 Noah shows up 7 times. Gasol shows up 3 times.
Ryan Anderson http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/201583/tracking/shotslogs/?OpponentTeamID=1610612741 Noah shows up 6 times. Gasol shows up once.
Pau guards the center. Noah is forced to guard the stretch fours, limiting his effectiveness as a defender of 5s and taking him out of the paint. Gasol can't guard those guys, even though he's a "PF."
Ilyasova. Look at the box score. Noah guarded him when Pau was out. And Milwaukee played no center for 14 minutes. And Pau guarded Plumlee, a 3.9 PPG scorer.
