I agree. Yet we still beat them (twice) and ever other team we beat without a gimmick defense.
With the gimmick defense we have beat zero teams and been blown out, embarrassed, and looked stupid twice.
Sign me up for our normal defense please.
From what I understand the reason we are employing the embarrassing gimmick defense is because we are scared of harden shooting threes and stepback threes in particular.
Why are we so afraid of that again? Harden shot 36.8% from three this year. That's ok but nothing to freak out about. I'm fine with him taking and making threes at a 36/37 percent clip. That's what he shoots against defenses that play him straight up.
Against the jazz and their gimmick defense in the playoffs harden is shooting 44% from three.
The rockets as a team shot 36% from 3 in the regular season.
Against the jazz gimmick playoff defense they are shooting 39% from three.
Doesn't seem to be working.
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