Post#536 » by Sealab2024 » Thu May 9, 2024 2:03 am
Reid played easily his best defensive game ever in game 2 against Denver and It was shockingly one of the best defensive games ever played against Jokic, a 3 time MVP. And he did it in the playoffs..... Legendary.
I've noticed Naz being more comfortable defensively on the perimeter, one on one and in help this year; just generally more fundamentally sound. Especially when KAT went down. Teams tried but they couldn't hunt Naz and get anything that was worth hunting. This was really big for the Wolves and for the rest of us it confirmed that Naz had a ceiling much higher than a bench piece. That was just showing league average ability which is what i think everyone was comfortable expecting eventually.
For Naz to not only hold up for an equal portion of a playoff game against the 3X MVP but actually be really effective is a whole other level of Naz that I didn't necessarily expect. Not that that's what's gonna happen every night or that Naz doesn't have bad matchups, but good lord.
If the Wolves can play KAT and Naz at the 4 and 5 and still be effective defensively this Wolves team is gonna win a ring.
My Grandma always said "it's a helluva lot easier to take a child down a peg than it is to build them up one"