Tornicade
2018 RBF League Champion
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- May 11, 2011
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Who else are they gonna target? Tristan or LeBron?There's no way to say this without sounding to diminish him but I'm not sure I'm going to attach much weight to any stat that has Love has having the best defensive anything on our team tonight. I mean in the 4th quarter a lot of their strategy revolved around putting him in action because of a lack of respect of his help defense
Look at the possessions at;
1. 6:41
2. 6:54
3. 7:04
4. 7:33
5: 7:53
6. 8:08
7. 8:40
He isn't at fault for all of those, yes, but come on, they were manufacturing points by challenging his help defense. Once or twice is a coincidence but those were multiple instances. You're telling me the guy in those eight clips was anything close to our best defensive contributor? With defense the stat test has to be supplemented with the eye test
You take a common sense attack strategy to downplay Loves defensive contribution?
but lets look at these 7 possessions. couched around cavs possessions where Green and Durant get beat out in similar situations
Heck three of those scores were good defensive plays. the other half were plays where Love was the only one in the paint effectively playing the 5.
outside of getting beat off the dribble 7:53 was really the only bad defensive play. the 3 possessions that love bodies up and forces the guy to take a mid range jumper are solid plays even if the guy score. the 2 where Love gets beat off the dribble at the foul line are gonna happen.
but one of those plays you cited was loves man passing off to another guy. Cant expect Love to guard at both.
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