Jingles2 wrote:Cade/Sasser
Ivey/Grimes
Ausur/Grimes
Simone/Stewart
Duren/Stewart/Muscala
Out of the regular rotation or minimal minutes:Wiseman, Gallinari, Fournier, Brown, Flynn, Mikton
That would be mine as well.
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Jingles2 wrote:Cade/Sasser
Ivey/Grimes
Ausur/Grimes
Simone/Stewart
Duren/Stewart/Muscala
Out of the regular rotation or minimal minutes:Wiseman, Gallinari, Fournier, Brown, Flynn, Mikton
Billl wrote:I'm most interested to see how the defense looks a month from now. We've punted out pretty much all the really bad defenders except Ivey , and even he has been showing a lot more fight recently.
BDM22 wrote:Billl wrote:I'm most interested to see how the defense looks a month from now. We've punted out pretty much all the really bad defenders except Ivey , and even he has been showing a lot more fight recently.
Cade is (at least) as bad as Ivey and Duren isn't tooo terribly far behind IMO. But Bojan was easily the worst and Burks was also very bad, so it should bring the level of everyone else up to replace them both with significantly better defenders.
Hopefully Weaver is done with the one-way vets. Finally 2 vaguely 3+D guys on the roster.
bstein14 wrote:BDM22 wrote:Billl wrote:I'm most interested to see how the defense looks a month from now. We've punted out pretty much all the really bad defenders except Ivey , and even he has been showing a lot more fight recently.
Cade is (at least) as bad as Ivey and Duren isn't tooo terribly far behind IMO. But Bojan was easily the worst and Burks was also very bad, so it should bring the level of everyone else up to replace them both with significantly better defenders.
Hopefully Weaver is done with the one-way vets. Finally 2 vaguely 3+D guys on the roster.
Duren just banged hard with Sabonis all game. Duren has gone from easily well below average as a rookie to slightly above average in year two IMO. Especially in man to man he perhaps still needs to get a bit better help side as he often helps and his man gets the easy bucket but part of that has to get better by individual wing/guard defenders staying in front of their mans better as well so Duren isn't constantly put in that position.
I think Cade is worst on defense than what Ivey has shown the last month.
BDM22 wrote:bstein14 wrote:BDM22 wrote:
Cade is (at least) as bad as Ivey and Duren isn't tooo terribly far behind IMO. But Bojan was easily the worst and Burks was also very bad, so it should bring the level of everyone else up to replace them both with significantly better defenders.
Hopefully Weaver is done with the one-way vets. Finally 2 vaguely 3+D guys on the roster.
Duren just banged hard with Sabonis all game. Duren has gone from easily well below average as a rookie to slightly above average in year two IMO. Especially in man to man he perhaps still needs to get a bit better help side as he often helps and his man gets the easy bucket but part of that has to get better by individual wing/guard defenders staying in front of their mans better as well so Duren isn't constantly put in that position.
I think Cade is worst on defense than what Ivey has shown the last month.
Duren's main issue is getting stuck in no man's land when guarding pick and rolls and often ends up not slowing down the ball handler but also not committing to take out the roll man. Certainly doesn't help that Ivey, Cade, etc are also bad at guarding PNR ball handlers, but it is what it is. Also tricky to quantify since some can be on Monty's scheme, but it's night and day with Stew in that spot.
The other thing is sometimes the effort seems to go up and down there. We saw him look like a beast the first few games on defense, but then we'll see him just casually not challenging shots in the lane for multiple games at a time.
DetroitDon15 wrote:The line up that I think that we will see is below. I base it on today’s game and the returning of injured players. I see the following:
G Cade / Sasser / Milton
G Ivey / Grimes / Milton
F Thompson / Brown Jr. / Udume
F Stewart / Fontecchio / Muscala
C Duren / Wiseman / Muscala
I’m not sure if this roster is much better outside of no Hayes.
DetroitDon15 wrote:The line up that I think that we will see is below. I base it on today’s game and the returning of injured players. I see the following:
G Cade / Sasser / Milton
G Ivey / Grimes / Milton
F Thompson / Brown Jr. / Udume
F Stewart / Fontecchio / Muscala
C Duren / Wiseman / Muscala
I’m not sure if this roster is much better outside of no Hayes.
MotownMadness wrote:I think Fontecchio gets the starting PF spot while Stewart is out and keeps it
That, even though I support it 100%, is the least likely thing to happen.MotownMadness wrote:I think Fontecchio gets the starting PF spot while Stewart is out and keeps it
zeebneeb wrote:That, even though I support it 100%, is the least likely thing to happen.MotownMadness wrote:I think Fontecchio gets the starting PF spot while Stewart is out and keeps it
If it does, ill eat crow, a boot, and a damn hat.