ThunderBolt wrote:Pillendreher wrote:
I think this is letting Adams off the hook at litlte bit too easily. Yes, Westbrook is not really defending the PnR, but hell, when has he ever done that? The last two games at least, Noel looked much more agile. And that's not on Westbrook or whatever guard is defending a play with Adams. More often than not, Adams has been in no man's land, ie not defending any action properly. If the schematic approach to the PnR is that Adams gets up into the ballhandler and puts pressure on that guy, he can't be giving the ballhandler 4 feet of space to operate while his man has a free lane to the rim. He has to commit to something. And lastly: When Schröder+Noel looks more proficient in the PnR than Westbrook+Adams, something's wrong with Adams as well, simply because Schröder isn't locking people up either. It's too easy to just point at Noel playing against 2nd units - Adams is making 25 million a year to do a good job against the best offensive players.
That tweet from Horne doesn’t acknowledge that our “switch everything” defense gives opposing teams exactly what they want, Adams trying to guard Harden or whoever at the three point line.
That's what I mentioned after one of the recent games: It's like they're trying to bait teams into getting a better crack at the basket with this weird switching. It takes Adams away from the paint where he's more effective and forces our smaller players to defend while being overmatched physically. It doesn't make sense, but we've been doing it way too often for it just being a coincidence.
