skones wrote:dhsilv2 wrote:
A - at the team level yes. At the player level, not at all. Players remain who they are. Some teams lack the flexibility to adapt.
B - No they're not remotely able to do this like the raptors or celtics did. Having elite vet defenders is huge!
C - this is fair. I agree he's developed but it's not his development that pushed him to the next level. It's having better talent and not being in a 2 man game with Eric Bledsoe.
It DOES happen at the player level because the players are the ones playing the game. Offensive players have to adjust to the looks being thrown at them. No matter how much preparation a team does, one is not fully prepared for the game itself. It's a reactionary game and the players are left to react. Again. You're just flat out wrong. Giannis did not play the same style of basketball he had been. It's up to him to actually make that change, not the team.
I didn't say they could do it like the Raptors did. The Raptors are an ATG defense. To throw the Celtics into that mold is just blasphemous. Again, Phoenix had the tools to throw the wall at Giannis. They didn't because a wall doesn't work when he's not coming straight down hill from the top of the key. Putting your offense into motion from different areas of the floor completely exposes that look. This isn't rocket science and it's obvious.
Again, you're wrong. It's his development that turned him into the offball monster he was in that series. Let me remind you that you're talking about a Jrue Holiday that averaged 17 a night on 40/30/71 splits. He had moments but was largely unreliable throughout the playoffs. Attributing Giannis' success to Jrue Holiday, is again, off base.
You're sitting there saying it forces you to ignore teammates blah blah blah. There are two sides to the coin here and you're completely refusing to acknowledge one of them and that's the player himself.
Jrue maintained defensive attention. This is nothing like what Giannis faced with Bledsoe. You can't adjust to having teammates with critical flaws in their game. That's the whole point here. The bucks as a team changes vastly more than Giannis the player did and that shifted everything.