walkingart wrote: His BLK/PF stat is an indicator of his poor defensive rotation and just plain stupid mistakes by reaching and such.
Agreed, but that still encompasses part of his shot-blocking repertoire, since defensive rotation is necessary to come over and block a shot. Anyway, if you've read what I've said, I have him roughly in-line with Yao, JO and Kaman before this season anyway, so we are actually in agreement mostly.
That being said, he is a far better defender than Jermain Oneil, who gets owned by every west coast big man.
Right now, sure; but when JO was healthy, it wasn't even close.
He is also much better than Kaman.
Kaman's many times his superior as a shot-blocker this year but in terms of actual defense, I am compelled to agree.
Yao is debatable, although being a Sun fan, Yao hasn't seen much playing time against us over the years.
Yao's a better defender; he's not been allowed to play bad defense and has been taught the finer points of improving his D by Jeff Van Gundy the last few years. He's a nasty defender.
Also keep in mind, Amare is smaller than all of these players and has been guarding them for years. We can all step back and watch to see how Amare plays now that he is going to be guarding PF's instead of C's.
Yeah, and if he puts his friggin' hands up once in a while, that'd be a great start. Undersized or not, you'll do very little trying to play D with ONLY your feet. I want to beat him with a plank of wood every time I see him D up with his arms down.
