rastamon87
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Might play a couple minutes of non garbage time tonight with K Love injured
Might play a couple minutes of non garbage time tonight with K Love injured
Nope. JR Smith at the 4.
Zizoc isn't a rim protector and he really struggles to move his feet on defense. As great as he is filling the Enes Kanter type role on a team, those limitations mean he will be a seive defensively without the right players around him.
Zizoc isn't a rim protector and he really struggles to move his feet on defense. As great as he is filling the Enes Kanter type role on a team, those limitations mean he will be a seive defensively without the right players around him.
Sure....
Tristan is worse defensively at this point. He is getting shit on that end and he doesn't have the offense to balance it out.
And I don't see a problem with Ante's ability to move his feet. His issue is lack of communication and over helping on drives. Things I also contribute to coaching and lack of good ball handler defense and poor defensive rotations. But if you want to be critical it's his over help and inability to recover quickly enough when he is caught out of position(when he helps on drives).
Zizoc isn't a rim protector and he really struggles to move his feet on defense. As great as he is filling the Enes Kanter type role on a team, those limitations mean he will be a seive defensively without the right players around him.
I get that it’s a delicate situation, specifically around JR and Tristan given the fact they both started for a title winner three years ago, but this is still a business.
Lue having a soft spot for guys who were relatively effective in dramatically different roles three years ago is just not acceptable for the 2018-2019 season.
Everyone likes to point to Kanter, and that's fine, but I'd like to point out that Marc Gasol at age 21 was arguably not a better player than Zizic today in any way. But he worked so hard on his game in the subsequent years that he became not just a serviceable defender, not just a good defender, but DPOY (and a pretty good offensive player to boot).
Obviously there's no guarantee that Zizic will show the same meteoric improvement if given more playing time, but there's no good reason to pencil him in as a certain defensive liability either.
Everyone likes to point to Kanter, and that's fine, but I'd like to point out that Marc Gasol at age 21 was arguably not a better player than Zizic today in any way. But he worked so hard on his game in the subsequent years that he became not just a serviceable defender, not just a good defender, but DPOY (and a pretty good offensive player to boot).
Obviously there's no guarantee that Zizic will show the same meteoric improvement if given more playing time, but there's no good reason to pencil him in as a certain defensive liability either.
Correct and also Kanter has never shown the passing ability that Zizic has.
Which other sophomore center has been a finished product on d after playing 40 games? Prob hasnt played that many
And he hasn't played consistently with either unit in practice even. He is just a fodder.
Though, Zizic's passing is rather basic still. He shows willingness and pretty good vision, but it's pretty straightforward. Doesn't have tunnel vision at all, which is pretty significant for a post up big.