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Turner, Sampson, and Lamb warming up. Coach expects 2 of them to play and Myles likely the one still out.

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I know this sounds a little too much like Quinn Buckner, but watching our defense it looks good, but watching the scoreboard it looks bad.

Wizop wrote:I know this sounds a little too much like Quinn Buckner, but watching our defense it looks good, but watching the scoreboard it looks bad.

I only watched the first half so far, but even then, the defensive rotation overall was terrible in that no one was rotating to the backside to protect against the wide open layups. Strong side, back side, didn’t matter.

Wizop wrote:I know this sounds a little too much like Quinn Buckner, but watching our defense it looks good, but watching the scoreboard it looks bad.

I disagree

Whether looking at the score board or the Pacers on the court, the defense just looks bad

Porzingis was feasting inside with easy, uncontested lobs and dunks

This was the first time this season I actually stopped watching a game halfway, because of how ugly things were

Scoot McGroot wrote:

Wizop wrote:I know this sounds a little too much like Quinn Buckner, but watching our defense it looks good, but watching the scoreboard it looks bad.

I only watched the first half so far, but even then, the defensive rotation overall was terrible in that no one was rotating to the backside to protect against the wide open layups. Strong side, back side, didn’t matter.

Handling Luka is always a problem given his elite vision, but yeah the defense was really out of sorts last night. Beyond having no rim protection with Myles out, none of our other bigs can reliably rotate and challenge wings. If it's Domas, Goga, or even Jakarr, odds are they're getting blown by and can't do anything about it. It was all exacerbated with some bad ballwatching it seemed.