Our defense

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  1. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    You're confusing the luxury tax with the salary cap. Not the same thing.

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  2. riverman

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    As Stotts likes to say.....we're still a work in progress. You can tell some players are buying into defensive effort yet it seems to be hurting those guys on offense...have yet to find a balance....Crabbe is drawing tough defensive assignments when he's on the court
     
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    I get that it's a new season, but ALL of our rotation players, aside from Turner, played the entire last season together. It's not like we're NYK or CHI (who are actually playing quite well) who are integrating new, marquee (if in name only) players into their starting units.
     
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    Actually Meyers missed 7 months of basketball...Layman's a rookie and Harkless didn't play much until just before the playoffs....Gerald Henderson was a floor coach vocally and we miss that....Dame has improved....he's having an incredible start even though the last game was not up to his usual stats. Guys that are playing bigger minutes didn't play as much last season....I see it as a work in progress...20 games into the season, we can say they've slipped if we're losing most of our games....last season we lost a lot of games early on.
     

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