hoosierdaddy34 wrote:Kilroy wrote:DanishLakerFan wrote:
I did watch him and he was awesome most of the time. I also saw the Lakers nearly run AD into the ground due to lack of depth and spacing at the 4/5 spot and i saw Vando being played off the court in the playoffs. As good as he is defensively he gives up just about as much on the other side of the court.
AD was run into the ground and Vando was off the court for the same reason... The coach is an idiot.
For some reason he fell in love with small ball lineups and Lonnie Walker...
The 'Vando's offense is bad' narrative is the excuse fans have come up with for the inexplicable decision not to play him. It only works if there was someone on the court whose offense is so good, it negates the lack of defense... There wasn't... We gave Vando's minutes to LW4 who's offense was even worse...
And we didn't lose to Denver from lack of offense, we lost because we forgot how to play the good defense that got us past GSW...
Which leads me to another comparison... Dray Green's offense is pretty terrible... But they wouldn't have won **** without him on the court.
Vanderbilt is not going to go out and sink 10 3pters on any given night... But he might prevent 10 of them on D... And that's more important in the playoffs in the west.
You don't trade that for a C who's never going to see the floor... Especially one you can sign outright...
A coach who regularly plays 3 guard lineups next to AD, is not going to be running many AD at the 4 lineups... And even if he did, Jaxson Hayes is a better player than Wood, even though he's got his off court issues...
Well if Handy is to be believed and Vando has grown “a couple of inches”? That puts him at about 6’9 and if that’s the case why isn’t he starting at center?
Probably because he’s too thin to handle Nurkic, Jokic, Adams, Valanciunas, Gobert, Ayton , Plumlee, Townes, Sabonis, Kessler and too short to guard Wemby and Holmgren and that’s just the West.