With kcp/hart starting and logging most of the guard mins while lonzo is out (pre IT) this team has become very very good defensively.
Ennis is really bad, and Caruso is just a 3rd string pg at best right now, so Luke just put hart in, and he has delivered. Hard to not keep giving him all the mins he can handle
Hart/kcp can cover pretty much any guard combo that can be thrown bs them, and Randle is showing 1-5 defensive ability combined with ingrams length and ability to switch, this team has become very very dangerous on the defensive end and hard to score on.
Lonzo has shown terrific ability to defend so far, and should easily fit into this switching scheme with an ability to guard 1-3.
IT is something else. I don't know where he fits defensively. As a 6th man a scoring punch off the bench, sure, in the same role JC just had.
Kuz is in line for all the mins he can handle now thou.
Lonzo/hart/kcp/Ingram/Randle
Switch everything
Throw another great player in the mix, who knows!
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I'm gonna get off the computer because I'm too pumped right now and getting way ahead of myself, but imagine the same switching defensive scheme with Lebron/PG.. We honestly may have found the backup point guard we are looking for in Hart...especially with the number of taller ball handlers we have (and are hoping to have).
Hart is exactly the type of player that a modern, positionless team needs....Make threes, play smart, crash the boards, and play great individual defense. Having pieces like that on top their elite top talent is probably what seperated the Warriors from other "superteams".
We just need to get the top guys...through aquisitions, and through patience with our high potential players. What a day to be a Laker fan in terms of optimism towards the future.
Hart is exactly the type of player that a modern, positionless team needs....Make threes, play smart, crash the boards, and play great individual defense. Having pieces like that on top their elite top talent is probably what seperated the Warriors from other "superteams".
We just need to get the top guys...through aquisitions, and through patience with our high potential players. What a day to be a Laker fan in terms of optimism towards the future.