02-16-2022, 12:38 PM
(02-16-2022, 12:31 PM)Winter Wrote: Until Josh Green is confident he can shoot outside shots at a decent percentage, then he is relegated to a defensive specialist
Agreed, and I'll go even further. He's obviously a good defender, but before Kidd's last time out, Miami was starting to gain momentum, basically because Butler was going right at Green, bully style. It was a simple "this kid doesn't know what this is, I'm going to run right through him and I'll get the calls, not him." Green will eventually learn ways of dealing with/discouraging that, but I think if he hadn't have come out at that point they would've lost the game.
There will be lots of stretches like that in the playoffs. Moments that are still just a little too big for him, imo.