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Whats the coach gunna say? It's all me, !%@% D. Rose? cmon man.Originally Posted by Osh Kosh Bosh
Kurt Thomas is an awesome role player, his defense has been great this year, he's just useless on offense. It's becoming clear are only looking at your teams offense capabilities and ignore defense. Taj is a really good player as well, his 7'6 wing span probably contribute to that vaunted defense of yours.
Evans Bogans (i'm going to assume you're talking about Keith) is the only who you guys should have beef with because his defense is not good enough to offset his terrible offense.
This isn't the offensive MVP award, we are all aware D. Rose has had to carry them on offense for a while, that's great, but that's only half the game.
3) Our coach who is responsible for that defensive system has gone on record countless times to state that if it weren't for Derrick Rose we would not be winning games regardless of how great our defense is. People want to point to our defense our defense and totally ignore that you have to score the ball as well in order to win games. If you can hold a team to 83 but can't score 84 it means absolutely nothing. They also don't talk about how much his defense has improved either ie he's pretty much been controlling top PG's since Batum made that comment about him not being able to guard Andre Miller.
Defense is more important that offense when it comes to winning chips, this is fact, no team without a top 7 defense has ever one a chip. His defense has improved from laughable to mediocre. Horray for him, lets throw a parade, im not sure why we have to give him an MVP award.
There's no need for me to speak on our Defense, we have the best defense in the league its well documented and has been well discussed by you and a few others. You made the statement that Dwight does more with less and I don't see that. It has nothing to do with who has the bigger names its about talent.
So are Orlando's supporting cast under performing? YES
Are they less talented... I can't say the same.
The players on our team fit our system and have performed well in it that's all it doesn't mean he has more to work with. But yes I will give you that Gilbert has played like trash.