80sballboy wrote:
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You know what Eddie? Maybe if your supersmart you wouldn't have decided that Andray Blatche could somehow defend Carmelo before the game. Maybe Carmelo wouldn't have had so much confidence to start off the game knowing that he had a PF/C masquerading as a perimeter defender on him. Carmelo toyed with Blatche at the beginning of the season at the Verizon Center. The Wizards and Eddie were basically asking Carmelo to go off by going to that matchup. EJ should just shut up.
and who would you have gone with? The great defender Antawn Jamison?
fugop wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
Yeah, I don't get this criticism. McGuire? Stevenson? I'd have told Blatche to go out and give it a shot too.
You don't think there's been enough visual evidence that tells us Blatche shouldn't be guarding anyone on the perimeter? Much less a all-star quality player in Melo? I don't care if its Jamison, Stevenson or McGuire...they couldn't have been any worse than Blatche in that role.
It's nothing against Blatche, but when is the coaching staff going to fully realize his limitations and stop asking him to defend on the perimeter? He just can't do it. There's not one small forward out there who wouldn't take advantage of the foot speed issue and go right past him, get fouled and/or create an easy scoring opportunity. Blatche is strickly a PF/C prospect. The quicker the coaching staff learns that, the better off the Wizards would be.