We should go all in on defense/win-now and trade Collins/2nd rounder for PJ Tucker. He and RoCo's post defense together is a thing of beauty, and he'd fit perfectly in Stotts' sit in the corner offense.
I think it's pretty telling that the team in 2018-19, apparently was much better than this team is right now. But whats the difference? Dame is better now, CJ is better ( at least offensively). I refuse to accept that Aminu and Harkless are the difference between this team playing worse defense than my 90 year old grandfather would, and playing passable defense. I will say this until I'm blue in the face, the players might like Stotts, but they don't play smart or hard for him anymore. If you're Jones, you went from playing on the Heat, going to the finals, to playing for a bumbling turd blossom. It's a waste of so many players talents, because Stotts just forces them into what he thinks will work. They're not taking advantage of Jones athletic skills, Covingtons defense (although i think his defense is overrated), Simons altheticism and abilities or Trents skillset. There is hardly any ball movement, and there seems to be no interest in coaching a defense this year. And I am so tired of hearing that the team didn't have a training camp...the season is 14 games old (18 counting pre-season). They've had time to implement a new defensive scheme...it's just that the defensive scheme they're implementing fucking sucks. They have the athletes, they have the height...they're just playing a really outdated and often proven to be subpar defense right now. And they're doing absofuckinglutley nothing about it. Defense isn't hard to play. Unless you're immobile like Boban, there is no reason why you can't be a passable defensive player. And that starts from the top of the coaching staff. until he's gone (or they actually get someone who is defensive minded to coach defense), we're going to just continue to be this mediocre team that will go no where. 5 straight games (or 4 out of 5, I don't remember if they were down double digits in the game vs the Hawks) where they were woefully outplayed, out hustled and out performed should be a red flag the size of Alaska.
