Quick may have a poor reputation here...but I have appreciated his work on The Athletic. Good article.
Quick has melodramatic tendencies, but I’ll read his articles before a holdahl/Freeman/richman piece any day. You will rarely, if ever, learn or read anything interesting from those three. One of them also has the grammar of a high schooler, which makes reading his shit a chore.
He was a melodramatic shit stirrer for many years. His reputation precedes him. Although a lot of that may have been at the direction of his employer, the Oregonian. New employer, new focus?
He's mentioned often in radio interviews that now he can spend more time on a piece and writes when and what he wants. That was not the case previously when he had to produce something almost every day whether it was a good topic/subject or not. I really like what he has done at The Athletic.
I liked Meyers, do partially agree. Do you think Meyers was an adequate to plus defender in the post?
BTW- Welcome to the forum! Maybe hit up the intro thread if you get some time. It's cool seeing what the other posters have in common....
Meyers has the mobility and size to be a good one-on-one defender and does a good job defending the guy with the ball, even out to the perimeter. Stott's defense where the big man sags back by the hoop, goes against Meyer's strengths to his weakness, which is shot blocking near the hoop, or "rim protection". So, I think Meyers does a good enough job defending his own man in the post (like Cousins or Jokic) but not when he has to go over and try to stop a smaller player. Here are some highlights of Whiteside vs Portland going against both Nurkic and Leonard.
No, just barely. But then he was the best we had at helping get coverage on the top notch three point shooter and be effective on offense too. We need a coach that understands this sort of game and pushes the concept. Look way back, to Dr. Jacks days, two completely different systems in play on the same team. The guard oriented offense, with Twardzik running a guard assist team, with the main stay being a Walton lead Highpost center team, with a low beast PF/center, Lucas there, and three motion men, Hollins, Gross, and one of three others. When they switched it the other teams were just lost for several minutes. It was beautiful. Now of course Meyers was not Walton on D, but god dammit he could shoot the damn ball and help guard the best guards in the league. Whitehead ain't any of this but I suppose it matters little. Stotts is no Dr. Jack, wouldn't know Pete Carril from a Cheerleader.
I feel like Meyers fans are like Trump fans when he leaves office. They'll have tears in their eyes and remember a time when everything in the world was right which is mostly made up fantasies in their head. I can't believe people are still talking about Meyers. Dementia sucks.
Dame is the greatest Blazer of all time. What he has done on the court, off the court, in the locker room....... no other blazer that I can think of has ever done it at this level.
