07-04-2023, 11:25 AM
(07-04-2023, 10:58 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Both good defenders, but only against guards, not forwards.
I agree that PJ and Grant Williams would fit our need in a much more obvious way than Thybulle and also agree that he's probably not a full MLE player (or a starter on a contender unless he can shoot 38%+ for a full season) but I do think that you're slightly overstating the Thybulle only defends guards narrative. You look up his defensive highlights and the vast majority of them are certainly at the point of attack but there's a ton of clips of him matching up with Tatum, Brown, KD, Jerami Grant, Harden and plenty of other players that we'd be asking this mystery free agent we don't have on roster to guard. Keep in mind the the majority of the time he was playing when he was getting all defense nods, he was on the floor with Ben Simmons who was built to guard everything off the ball so Thybulle wasn't asked to do that as much as he probably could.
Is asking him to guard forwards the best way to use him? Probably not but we had DFS guarding guards where needed until Reggie got here because we had no other option and it worked out for the most part. I just want us to get back to the conference finals defense that was flying around everywhere and switching on everything and I think he can help us get closer to that.
I'm with you that the other two are better options but I also think Thybulle would not be a bad one is all I'm saying.
Now let's sign him and one of the other two so we can use them all exactly how'd we like, that sounds better anyway.