KJ7 wrote:Agreed but it's as much about stopping these guys as a team as it is about stopping them one-on-one.
That's where you *hope* some decent coaching comes into it. I must admit this is an area where D'Antoni was poor (he would just hope that Marion would stop their player). You would hope a coach who was brought in due to his ability to teach defense would have something else up his sleeve. He clearly doesn't.
No half-court traps or anything. The only decent thing he did was put Nash on Simmons making their focus go away from their back-court. Once they realised that was happening they went straight back to their back-court and took on our best defenders and one easily.
Our D is seriously worse then it was last season.
We were pretty atrocious defensively at the end of last year after the trade. Shawn was our only guy that could keep guards somewhat in check. I agree Porter really hasn't mixed anything up or at least if he's tried it's not showing up in games. But no genius scheme is going to do anything when our roster doesn't have one single decent perimeter defender. Not one.
