eyeatoma wrote:Murray_17 wrote:I was kind of curious about Maxey because his defense seems greatly improved in my eyes.
I'm pretty sure he has become a neutral defender for his position. Yesterday, he was all over the place, even when hunted on switches.
He's also more of a creator, his TS% is a mediocre 54% (mainly because his shooting has gone away) and he still has a 2.9 BPM, which is **** ridiculous (and yes, his defensive BPM is neutral at 0), mainly because the offense is rolling with him on the court.
If his efficiency improves to marginally above average, I'm ready to say he has a path to being a top-five guard in the league down the line.
A few people on podcasts have him as a plus defender now. He's more than neutral.
I literally was about to come back into this thread to praise Tyrese defense and was prepared to fight about it
Seriously, teams like the Celtics will always choose to pick on him with their best players because of their size advantage and his individual defense has been solid all year... His fighting over screens was a problem he even did that well once... But still not great.
Yesterday they switched things on defense, I remember the last Pacers game I called him on the navigation of screens with Jared McCain not knowing Jared has a torn knee and they weren't switching defensively and they both really struggled. With their full team and without a 2nd questionable small guard... The switch of 1-4 was possible and even Yabu played well when attacked by Tatum. Tatum had a stretch when he shot over solid defense, but that's not sustainable over the long run except game 6 4th qtr and game 7 in full. As illustrated in that video above, Tatum used his size to get into the paint but Maxey battled him to the point that it took him like 4 seconds to get into the paint and that's more than enough time for help to get there. That's the job for smaller guards don't be a matador and give your help a chance... And contest jumpers as best you can.
Well done Tyrese on that end.... and I tolerate zero Maxey slander. Even when he has his offensive struggles playing with Lowry and Gordon as his only "spacer"as he did to begin the year with 100 mil sitting and clapping
Tyrese has utilized his floater better of late too, and I want even more. It's been a key to his resurgence of late as a counter. With all 3 levels and his playmaking when teams overload, he's fulfilling the prophecy
