garrick wrote:Revived wrote:Lazy switches. I’m glad this team is getting clowned appropriately by other teams.
Remember when we were actually good on defense?
Booker is back to playing dumb defense constantly leaving his man open in the corner and his help defense is just atrocious, Grayson tries hard on defense but he's too small and too slow to counter quick guards like Dame.
KD is a good help defender but is a step slow and doesn't run out to contest all the time.
Nurkic is slow constantly gets burned on switches.
We just don't have a starting unit that is capable of playing even average defense.
Unfortunately, that's the most common result of constructing a team with only aging, injury prone talent and a supporting cast roster of basically no energetic youth or elite athletes in a league wherein the athletic competition is top tier!! We can't recover and close out on shooters due to our lack of overall footspeed and athleticism. And because we (our front office) deliberately ignored adding a legit rim protector with size and length, we're forced to have our perimeter defenders collapse inward to try and stop penetration (usually unsuccessfully) to the rim, which requires more energy output and leads to quicker exhaustion, lazy effort, diminished efficiency and lack of focus and urgency overall.
And then as we sag in too deep trying to compensate for our lack of size and athleticism, we ultimately have been leaving opposing offenses
WIDE OPEN to the point of excess resulting in these teams having career shooting nights against us! And then we have to fight an uphill battle constantly playing from behind because we chose to ignore fundamental core issues that now keep snowballing as our weaknesses are openly targeted.
This finally results in the glaring apathy and disinterest to the point of us just giving up and standing around. All of these little issues our front office GM James " do nothing" Jones played off as inconsequential or unimportant enough to address, cumulatively add up to our postseason demise and another early offseason falling short of stated goals!
The biggest constant here is Jones habitual unwillingness or veiled inability to simply do his job even reasonably well and actually address our roster issues responsibly knowing full well the framework of the CBA that we had to woirk within. But once again, he did the absolute minimal possible to make our roster complete! And now we're again suffering from his aversion to doing his job diligently.
