inliner311
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I understand that "pressing" may hurt you on the offensive end. I don't buy for a second an argument that taking the pressure off him and telling him to relax is going to make him put forth more effort defensively.
A huge part of defense is busting your ass and putting forth effort. That's where he has fallen short, and he fell short even when under his full rookie contract in Utah when he presumably was relaxed.
Time for him to sack up, or go play in Europe.
Hopefully the new guys brought in, will create some peer pressure to play hard on defense. If Sexton, Nwaba, Cedi, etc are bust their ass on defense and a guy like Hood or Clarkson are the reason teams get some easy buckets, I bet the team will give them shit for it.