2022-2023 Regular Season Game 19: Philadelphia 76ers (9-9) at Orlando (5-13) - 7pm

[NavalAviator94]

For those of you happy to not see chuma out there last night think about this. Philly was missing there 3 highest scoring players and we had not a single player that could slow Tobias Harris or Shake Milton.

I know I know it's a shooters league. But you still need defense.

And they would've switched right off him, so what's the point? Franz and even Paolo tried to make it tough for him a couple times. He took a bunch of wide open shots from the corner anyway, which is more of a team defense problem. The game came down to shooting and rebounding. Chuma wasn't what was missing.

We missed Chuma’s energy for sure


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[Bergmaniac]

I thought betting on us to win this would be easy money after Philly announced their Big 3 are all out and we had Banchero back. I should have known that we play down to the opposition and that WCJr is our most important player currently because we just can't defend without him.

Mosley is supposed to be a defensive specialist but our defensive scheme is horrible, we switch without any resistance even before the other team run a screen and even if the switch will result in a complete mismatch in the opponent's favour. WCJr is great on switches, but our other centres are a disaster when asked to defend quicker players and surely Mosley knows it but he keeps using the same scheme. Our rotations when the man defending a shooter in the corner has to help on drives are usually terrible too, it's a wide open corner 3 most of the time if the pass is made and often our defenders end up looking at each other confused about who was supposed to rotate to the corner.

[Stormofreign]

Listening to Franz’ post game sounds like a lot of the players are confused on some of the defensive switches that they are asked to do. The defense is not working. Not the zone nor the man to man on top of the fact that the team can’t shoot. This is going to be a long season.

I'd rather them just play man and fight over/under screens than play zone and have the opps walk into wide open threes.....this switch everything part time zone is apparently too complicated for us to run..... Keep it simple and solid.... I might be wrong but I don't think we played defense this way last year and was a better defense with more or less the same guys.... Lets play defense like we were last season and see how that works....

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Agreed. Although, with no rim protectors, would you rather them have open 3s or sure fire dunks or layups? However the problem is Orlando is giving up all 3. I am curious who came up with the idea for our guys to play zone in 2022 season where the majority of the teams are jump shooting teams? Not only that, but why is this team so bad defensively and offensively? How is the practice setup? What exactly is this team learning? I don’t get it.

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