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It was nice seeing him guard his position for once. He played Wall tough. Hope that continues!

SVG didn't pay him John wall money to not compete against John wall

Just figured this would be the same old Reggie sucks mantra... he does look like he's moving his feet better than before.
When you get a solid pick it's tough to follow the man. We tend to look too much at what a player scored vs another and less about responsibilities to help.
Not to let RJ off the hook he should body up more and use his wings to create more t.o's
In general the whole team is improving their awareness considering the blatant lack of closing & help before.... A couple extra days of practice is paying off.

ComboGuardCity wrote:SVG didn't pay him John wall money to not compete against John wall

Good answer

Much like Dre I feel like he's capable of playing good on both sides but like him they get to lazy to do it consistently. We need both of them to start playing hard and smart every game not just after we are trying to dig out of a hole or there are trade rumors.

I'm gunna disagree on it being complete laziness. I don't think he has the lung capacity and stamina to be a plus offensive player and defensive player at the same time due to his asthma. I may be wrong but the dude always looks gassed by the end of the 1st quarter lol

detroitKG wrote:I'm gunna disagree on it being complete laziness. I don't think he has the lung capacity and stamina to be a plus offensive player and defensive player at the same time due to his asthma. I may be wrong but the dude always looks gassed by the end of the 1st quarter lol

Legit comment... it might require limiting his minutes that we typically see from a starter.

mercury wrote:

detroitKG wrote:I'm gunna disagree on it being complete laziness. I don't think he has the lung capacity and stamina to be a plus offensive player and defensive player at the same time due to his asthma. I may be wrong but the dude always looks gassed by the end of the 1st quarter lol

Legit comment... it might require limiting his minutes that we typically see from a starter.

He plays 29 min this season and 30 last its only so much limiting you can do.

mattao313 wrote:

mercury wrote:

detroitKG wrote:I'm gunna disagree on it being complete laziness. I don't think he has the lung capacity and stamina to be a plus offensive player and defensive player at the same time due to his asthma. I may be wrong but the dude always looks gassed by the end of the 1st quarter lol

Legit comment... it might require limiting his minutes that we typically see from a starter.

He plays 29 min this season and 30 last its only so much limiting you can do.

ok, what's your answer.

detroitKG wrote:I'm gunna disagree on it being complete laziness. I don't think he has the lung capacity and stamina to be a plus offensive player and defensive player at the same time due to his asthma. I may be wrong but the dude always looks gassed by the end of the 1st quarter lol

I'll take it a step further... and claim that Reggie is saving his energy/effort for the 4th Qtr... where real individual accolades could be had.

Burn him!!

And, I came here thinking this was going to be a thread defending Reggie . . .

Jackson just isn't good on defense and likely never will be. That's not his game. One good outing in that regard every blue moon doesn't change that. Can't really hide him either when opposing teams are making it a point to find Reggie on the court and attack him... like they do against Detroit.

I think the thread title is incomplete. Should be "Reggie's defense is indefensible" or something wittier than that.

I didn't see that defense. In fact, in the last quarter Wall missed a lot of shoots being completely unguarded.

Ish cannot compete physically with big PGs but his effort and intensity is always there. I can't say the same about Reggie.

But Drummond was the worst. His last 2 minutes were atrocious. In order to not commiting his sixth he allowed Wall an easy bucket and then tripped over allowing another easy bucket. It was a **** miracle we won.

detroitKG wrote:I'm gunna disagree on it being complete laziness. I don't think he has the lung capacity and stamina to be a plus offensive player and defensive player at the same time due to his asthma. I may be wrong but the dude always looks gassed by the end of the 1st quarter lol

Agree 100%.


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1 - I think RJ expels a lot of energy early in the game because he's an emotional guy.

He comes out pumped!

Then it gets a few minutes in and he starts to settle down, gets into his groove which is...

2 - "I gotta bring it in the 4th" not a direct quote but if you were him and we're playing ANY team and it's close going into the 4th you know when the last quarter comes it's Reggie Time!

It's his mentality - & not really a good one.

That's my take on it anyway. His asthma has nothing to do with it IMO

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He's the guy that needs to be replaced in the starting lineup, period. His defense is laughable and his offense is inefficient even in most of his better games.

reggies problem is effort and sustaining for the whole game. You watch ish smith he gets seal'd out quite a bit but makes tremendous effort to get back in front or contest, we need that from RJ all game. He needs to stop shouldering the offensive load when we really don't need him too

Ish is a reliable backup, barely average starter, so he's the answer and SVG needs to use him properly. Reggie is gassed? bench him. Reggie doesn't play D? bench him. Reggie shoots too much and not efficiently? bench him.

Like coordinator0 said Reggie just isn't good at defense not only is he not fundamentally good he's really slow laterally and can't make up for it with steals like some guards. At the end of the day he isn't good enough on offense to be this bad on defense I said this last season as well. Even a guy like Lillard is pretty flawed cause of the same lack of defense and he is a better offensive player than Reggie.

Still, I don't think Reggie is the biggest problem this team has right now though.