NasstyNate
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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.His lack of awareness wasn't single-handedly costing us baskets. When I saw unguarded shots at the rim I also saw the Raptors drawing TT out of the paint, thereby leaving our wings as the lone weak side defenders. LeBron played great offensively last night, but you could count many more possessions that ended with him lagging behind an uncontested shot at the rim- not Tristan.
Uh, Opposite? What the fuck are you talking about? Even if he didn't slide over switching is help defense. Come on...the possession might have ended with Lowry going 1-on-1 with TT, but that only came after he helped out the guard getting screened.
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.
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.
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.