Majority of players they get are from big, sucessful college programs, they also don't usually go after raw projects who need years to learn how to play basketball.
If you look how they drafted Jaquez, most people in their spot would go after some 19 years old project, they went after person who spent 4 years at college. Fast forward one year, their rookie is easly top 5 best rookies in a class, at least so far.
And btw, Boston's defense on 3 point shooting was just pathetic for playoff basketball , especially in first half, ESPECIALLY for a contender.
How many times Herro played 2 men game, curled around screen and was left wide open ? 10 straight?
Not to mention Horford and his "defense" on Jaquez.
Like... it's Tyler Herro, in second half of playoff game, after slight trip, you have Brown giving up on possession leaving guy wide open in corner and not even trying to recover.
Min later, you switch to 3-2 zone, but your zone is so damn deep that it actually helps shooting team get more open.
LIke ,wtf was Boston doing in this game? Even if Herro does not shoot ( he didn't) there are 4 Heat perimeter players open, and only 3 Boston bodies that can actually defend, because Horford is already in no-men world ,if Zingis is lured out, you have 2 midgets below rim to score at.
Who was setting this defense ? Why Porzingis and White didn't change places, what's the point of 2-3 zone if 2 men out are bigs? It's just pathetic for basketball team to be this disorganized.
And if you think those are just heats of a moment cought on screen, 40 sec later , you have situation where Brown wants Martin to go left, because , i assume ,intentionally they load strong side with 2 bigs, HOWEVER, despite fact he WANTS Martin to go left, he is so damn unprepared to actually defend him - from going left. He lost footing so fast that neither bigs menaged to react.
All this happened in 2 min of basketball game.
Pretty much, they got cooked because they played like fools.
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