CoolBreeze44 wrote:We're simply not competitive night in and night out. The main reason is we go through long stretches where we offer little to no resistance on the defensive end. Some of the runs against us have been epic.
I'm not the biggest fan, but one guy who would make a difference is Okogie. His dog mentality on D would help stem some of these runs and allow us to hang in games better. He's just one guy but in combination with Culver and Edwards could give us representative defense for stretches on the perimeter.
The dilemma Ryan has though is our offense goes to crap when you play three guys that can't shoot the ball. Our version of an all-defense team would probably be Davis, Vanderbilt, Okogie, Culver, and Rubio. Not a single one of them can shoot.
This is the problem when an organization can't organically develop its draft picks into better shooters. You end up with a roster of guys that are either naturally good defenders or good shooters, but terrible at the other. No one can do both at an even passable level. And because "the system" values floor spacing more than defense, we have Jauncho getting regular minutes when on most teams he'd be the 9th or 10th man at best. He might be a worse defender than DLO!
Maybe. But Russell had yet ANOTHER trademark defensive possession yesterday.
Lillard beat the double team 28 feet from the basket. Russell who was standing directly in front of the rim during this ended up FURTHER away by the basket by the time Lillard got there despite seeing every millisecond of the play.
He literally moved out of his way.
And then... and this is what I've discussed before... he held out his hands in the universal "What happened?" demonstrative gesture.
That's crappy losing basketball. Debbie Downer or not... that's been Wolves basketball for many years.
[Note: It might have been Hernangomez who was also standing around watching this... and maybe even fouling for an easy And-!???]
I think its the play where dlo was switch on to the portland big. Dlo was
caught in no mans land there. If he get in lillards way then its a drop pass and dunk from the big. Dlo was denying the easy pass to the big and the only hope there was a weakside help or chase down block. It wasn't primarily dlo's fault but more of poot defense from the whole team.
You stop the ball for chrissakes. He literally moved out of the way.
CoolBreeze44 wrote:We're simply not competitive night in and night out. The main reason is we go through long stretches where we offer little to no resistance on the defensive end. Some of the runs against us have been epic.
I'm not the biggest fan, but one guy who would make a difference is Okogie. His dog mentality on D would help stem some of these runs and allow us to hang in games better. He's just one guy but in combination with Culver and Edwards could give us representative defense for stretches on the perimeter.
The dilemma Ryan has though is our offense goes to crap when you play three guys that can't shoot the ball. Our version of an all-defense team would probably be Davis, Vanderbilt, Okogie, Culver, and Rubio. Not a single one of them can shoot.
This is the problem when an organization can't organically develop its draft picks into better shooters. You end up with a roster of guys that are either naturally good defenders or good shooters, but terrible at the other. No one can do both at an even passable level. And because "the system" values floor spacing more than defense, we have Jauncho getting regular minutes when on most teams he'd be the 9th or 10th man at best. He might be a worse defender than DLO!
Maybe. But Russell had yet ANOTHER trademark defensive possession yesterday.
Lillard beat the double team 28 feet from the basket. Russell who was standing directly in front of the rim during this ended up FURTHER away by the basket by the time Lillard got there despite seeing every millisecond of the play.
He literally moved out of his way.
First rule in defense.
And then... and this is what I've discussed before... he held out his hands in the universal "What happened?" demonstrative gesture.
That's crappy losing basketball. Debbie Downer or not... that's been Wolves basketball for many years.
[Note: It might have been Hernangomez who was also standing around watching this... and maybe even fouling for an easy And-!???]
I think its the play where dlo was switch on to the portland big. Dlo was
caught in no mans land there. If he get in lillards way then its a drop pass and dunk from the big. Dlo was denying the easy pass to the big and the only hope there was a weakside help or chase down block. It wasn't primarily dlo's fault but more of poot defense from the whole team.
You stop the ball for chrissakes. He literally moved out of the way.
