That's what I thought. They were like the characters in Seinfeld watching a mugging, and joking about it.
Yeah, I agree. I don't understand why there's a thread singling out McCollum on defense when the entire team bar Aminu has been struggling on that end.
We have been pretty terrible at taking charges this season. I actually can't remember even one charge taken on purpose yet.
People are calling CJ's defense bad because he gave up 2 points in a mismatch? And Shaq could've probably posted up Jordan. What's the big deal? CJ's defense is underrated when guarding actual SGs, not PF/Cs.
nah.,..I disagree..he doesn't lack effort, you can tell he tries but he's a poor perimeter defender but he has quick hands and tries to get steals when defending one on one...leading too often to blown coverage. I think he'll improve but true 6 men like Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry, Mo Williams etc are not in the game as defenders, they are volume shooters who try to impact the offense. Gerald Henderson is a real defensively talented guard
Who should end up starting but probably never will (unless we go small and bring Beibs off the bench).
Not athletic enough? Dont his quick cuts and change of direction and ability to hit shots off balance and jump high and at all angles kinda debunk that?
Dammit D!!! He is no B! All he did was P!!! Damn straight.. don't be talking about bringing my boy off the bench!!!!!
The coldest part is that your feet don't have to be set. You simply have to maintain a legal guarding position. Once that is obtained, the offensive player must go "to & through" the defender.
CJ made an in-game decision and it didn't work out. He couldn't stop Diaw from backing him down, no help came, he didn't body up and flop to try to take a charge, and he didn't start hacking at Diaw hoping to get called for a foul. I'm sure every arm chair quarterback here would have done the right thing at the right time. It was one fucking play. SMH
You know what type of "athletic" i mean here. I can also claim Steve Nash was athletic as hell and i would be right, but for some reason it didn't help his defense a whole lot. I'm actually trying to think of players who were like CJ physically and somehow turned into solid defensive players... Billups,Dumars maybe?
