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Why don’t y’all hold Zion, Dame, Jokic and others to the same defensive standards yall do to Trae young?

Zion & Dame are fukkin horrendous on defense but folks only use that to down Trae
 

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Why don’t y’all hold Zion, Dame, Jokic and others to the same defensive standards yall do to Trae young?

Zion & Dame are fukkin horrendous on defense but folks only use that to down Trae
Zion has improved a lot defensively and guarded Randle the whole 48 minutes, Randle was 11 of 28 that game.

He has has the highest defensive rating on the team over the last 2 weeks or so. They are worse defensively when he is off the court.

Don't ask me for the stats, I seen it on the broadcast 2 days ago
 
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Why don’t y’all hold Zion, Dame, Jokic and others to the same defensive standards yall do to Trae young?

Zion & Dame are fukkin horrendous on defense but folks only use that to down Trae
Jokic is often shyt on for his perceived lack of defense; it's something that is typically brought up when discussing his game. It's entirely an image thing. Jokic is a Euro, and Trae is a skinny ass hair-on-a-lollipop ass nxgga, so naturally, they're going to be targets on a board where keyboard militants run wild.

And that nxgga above me is lying his ass off about Zion's stats. Don't listen to him.
 

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Jokic is often shyt on for his perceived lack of defense; it's something that is typically brought up when discussing his game. It's entirely an image thing. Jokic is a Euro, and Trae is a skinny ass hair-on-a-lollipop ass nxgga, so naturally, they're going to be targets on a board where keyboard militants run wild.

And that nxgga above me is lying his ass off about Zion's stats. Don't listen to him.
You wanna bet you bytch ass nikka.

Only YOU know exactly where to find these stats you pink bytch, go look for yourself wit yo pink ass fingertips.
 

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:mjlol:at you trying to direct attention away from saying the Warriors drafted a superstar in Wiseman. Yet another swing and miss from you.

p.s. Warriors are 7-2 since Wiseman went down with the #1 defense, top-5 offense and the highest net-rating. Essentially, they've been performing like the best team in the league without him. Marinate on that.

:mjgrin:
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:mjlol:at you trying to direct attention away from saying the Warriors drafted a superstar in Wiseman. Yet another swing and miss from you.

p.s. Warriors are 7-2 since Wiseman went down with the #1 defense, top-5 offense and the highest net-rating. Essentially, they've been performing like the best team in the league without him. Marinate on that.

:mjgrin:
Wiseman isn’t the problem; it’s the 25 million they’re paying to a power forward who averages 7 points a game.

As a casual fan, you wouldn’t know that the last month of the regular season is always prime time for bad teams to go on runs. Why do you think the Wizards have won 8 in a row? There’s no incentive for good teams to play hard, they’re trying to get healthy.
 

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This is even more hilarious considering they built a dynasty with Kerr at the helm. Your goofy ass self is acting like they've never been to the playoffs with Kerr as coach. It's funny how it's only the shytty ass posters regurgitating this bullshyt about Kerr's coaching ability.

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So you’re going to pretend Kevin Durant wasn’t there? And Kevin Durant came from player recruitment, had nothing to do with Kerr or the front office
 
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So you’re going to pretend Kevin Durant wasn’t there? And Kevin Durant came from player recruitment, had nothing to do with Kerr or the front office
They broke the regular-season record without KD. They then defeated KD in the playoffs. And then when KD joined them, they still ended up winning more games when KD wasn't playing.

You going to pretend like that didn't happen?

You really out here attributing the Warriors success to KD?

:usure:
 
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Why don’t y’all hold Zion, Dame, Jokic and others to the same defensive standards yall do to Trae young?

Zion & Dame are fukkin horrendous on defense but folks only use that to down Trae
My thing is Steph an actual + defender gets hate that Lillard a below average defender doesn’t.

A guy like Jokic isn’t even a bad defender. He has limitations yeah but outright bad defensively? Nah, he’s a good drop back P&R defender with very active hands, he can bang in the low post, he will contest stretch bigs, he’s a good defensive rebounder, would you want him switched out on guards and is he a good rim protector? No, but he has his strengths on that end.

Zion lacks effort, length, discipline, and awareness on D but it’s not talked about.

Most people don’t know how to evaluate defense for shyt and go off how a player looks and narratives
 
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