Bad Defense

[DutchJazzer]

If you can't effectively defend good players, doesn't that make you a bad defender? Foye is a bad defender at the 2. Having Mo-Foye defending the perimeter, with Al at the 5 behind them is a disaster waiting to happen, especially since there are more stretch 4s in the league every season, drawing additional help to the perimeter. You absolutely need a 5 who can defend the rim, and 1s and 2s who will at least be attentive, rotate effectively and provide a little resistance on the perimeter.

exactly why i am a fan of millsap and marvin williams.

they did play good defense.
problem was they where playing 2on 5 on defense.
and on alfense it was all about chucking for foye mo and al.

marvin and milslap are system/team players, too bad alfense aint a system

man how does corbin still have a job.


whish i could fail so hard at my job and still be employed

 

[zman1527]

No, that's not what I wrote. To spell it out: starting Foye (6'4") at SG and playing him extended minutes against Kobe (6'6"), Harden (6'5"), Iguodala (6'6"), Ginobli (6'6"), etc is never going to work. These guys know how to exploit a mis-match like that, and giving them 30+ minutes to do it is just bad coaching. It was like the bad old days of having Fisher as our SG, watching guys shoot over the top of him.

But, but, but that was decision by the great and glorious Jerry Sloan, from whom Ty learnt all he knows. It musta been a decision of genius. Saracasm alert.

I hear you, but it just goes along with the Jazz giving lip service to defense while totally emphasizing continuing to play the Ole Jer system on offense. Nothing else seems to matter.