06-27-2023, 11:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2023, 11:37 PM by KillerLeft.)
Mavsfan12, I’ll pushback a little:
1) the biggest thing I see misunderstood around here is that Luka is not really a guard. Sure, he initiates the offense from above the break the way a guard would, so it’s not inaccurate to call him a PG, technically, but there are very few teams against whom he can play that position on defense. In reality, he’s a forward (one of the reasons his rebounding numbers are so high) and the easiest way to lose games by double digits is to put him in position to be an on-ball defender.
2) so, at the moment, that means out of the 8-9 man real rotation, they have Luka, Lively, Kleber, Omax who can ONLY play front court positions (if you’re counting on Holmes for anything, add another) and THJ, Green and Bullock, who all have some front court overlap. I would actually say that Green’s best position is the 3, honestly, though he can play guard a little. Kyrie and Hardy are really the only full time guards in the potential rotation at the moment (though I’d argue THJ is better there).
Out of all those dudes, Green is the only one with the slightest chance of being an elite on-ball defender. I’d argue that there are quite a few deficiencies on the team right now, guard included.
1) the biggest thing I see misunderstood around here is that Luka is not really a guard. Sure, he initiates the offense from above the break the way a guard would, so it’s not inaccurate to call him a PG, technically, but there are very few teams against whom he can play that position on defense. In reality, he’s a forward (one of the reasons his rebounding numbers are so high) and the easiest way to lose games by double digits is to put him in position to be an on-ball defender.
2) so, at the moment, that means out of the 8-9 man real rotation, they have Luka, Lively, Kleber, Omax who can ONLY play front court positions (if you’re counting on Holmes for anything, add another) and THJ, Green and Bullock, who all have some front court overlap. I would actually say that Green’s best position is the 3, honestly, though he can play guard a little. Kyrie and Hardy are really the only full time guards in the potential rotation at the moment (though I’d argue THJ is better there).
Out of all those dudes, Green is the only one with the slightest chance of being an elite on-ball defender. I’d argue that there are quite a few deficiencies on the team right now, guard included.
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