HEZI wrote:spree8 wrote:HEZI wrote:
The switching hasn’t been something that has worked. Celtics still keep getting wide open looks and they have built up 20+ leads in back to back games. It’s the emphasis on protecting the paint, living with their 3 point chucking and then just extra effort from individual players when it comes to moving their feet, deflecting passes, digging and stripping the ball, contesting shots on their drives, etc. which has helped us in the comebacks
Of course it has… I thought everyone knew that. If the focus was only protecting the paint, well, we did that all season and got destroyed by 30
Not at all. We are actually doing a better job protecting the paint not the 3 point line. They still get a ton of open looks, which fortunately for us they have been missing. But we have shut down drives on the two guys who can actually get inside and have punished us inside in the past and that’s Tatum and Brown.
It’s far more nuanced than this. Switching has helped, I haven’t heard or read anyone saying it hasn’t anywhere …besides you.
Switching helps more than just defending 3’s too. It puts you in better position to defend drives by far, as you’re not having guys die on the screen forcing KAT to defend two guys coming at him in drop as a result.
Our guys are very active and doing a lot on that side of the ball, so the success is not all because of switching, because the game is complex, but it absolutely, without a doubt, has had a major benefit. I honestly dunno how it’s remotely debatable.