Man, you post a lot, but your continued failed gotchas show you have no idea what you are talking about and have difficulty with reading comprehension.
Man, you don't post much, but when you do it just drips with condescension. I didn't bother responding to you before because you sweep away good points with long winded rebuttals that say absolutely nothing.
Between the insufferable, know-it-all way you write and the 'your not dumb, your opinions are' comment you made I've already grown tired of your shtick. Welcome to my ignore list, please consider this my last response to you.
Amherstcavsfan said TT needs to work on his help side defense. Help side defense is almost universally understood as when the guy you are defending is two or more passes away from the ball and you sag off a bit toward the ball handler in the direction of the paint in order to be able to help deny penetration or rotate to help cover someone's backside. You then tried to make fun of him but you, number 1 - were factually wrong, and number 2 - did not even negate Amherstcavsfan's point considering the play did not involve help side defense from TT.
I was not making fun of Amherstcavfan, he called TT's help side defense bad then gave a few examples of poor PnR defense. I haven't seen the terrible help defense that you and a couple others are claiming to see, I even refuted your post that called him atrocious in that area last week.
IMO he's improved leaps and bounds as a weak side shot blocker, I would no longer call him bad in that aspect of help defense. He's not a world-beater, but he's no longer one of the worst bigs in the entire league like last year either.
And now you double down on being wrong. Switching might in some attenuated way be considered help defense if you define defense as guarding only your positional counterpart. But modern defense acknowledges that rotating produces better outcomes, and switching is now baked into the cake. TT guarded Lowry for basically the entire possession, including about 10 seconds of one on one face up defense. Sorry, that is not help defense.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but switching is another form of help defense. The switch doesn't even happen unless the guard can't get through a screen and needs help.
Modern defenses didn't invent rotations and switching, that's just wrong and a compete joke. Some coaches still abhor switching and never have their players switch regardless of the matchup, it's entirely a matter of preference and personnel. Rotating/switching isn't some newfangled modern twist, I really don't know where you were going with that.
And I guess I'll never know... Bummer.
P.S. your first paragraph describes TT's sorry ass help side defense. Now that is actually funny. Hopefully that helps in seeing what people are talking about.
Pointing out when TT is defending the high PnR our wings are the ones supposed to be guarding the rim, that describes TT's sorry ass help side defense?
That makes perfect sense, considering the hard on you have for criticizing TT. Said it in the game thread, but when people can't appreciate a third big coming off the bench averaging 14/11 on 68% shooting the past three games they've got some high standards.
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