Just watched all of the Reggie highlights.
He’s brilliant at the execution today. He forced switches onto the weakest defenders Harden and Norm Powell.
This forces Zu to hedge. Zu was completely exposed. He never jumped on any of the passes.
We learned that Zu cannot play as the center if it requires hedging. You need a guy like Nerlens Noel. A center that can actually jump and tip passes while at the hedge point. It’s not that hard.
Also learned that Harden and Norm are huge negatives on defense. Cannot stop any dribble penetration.
So Clippers need to find another RoCo / Batum. It’s Amir Coffey or Kobe in my opinion.
by MITWestbrook
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Jesus the backside help is way late on basically every one of these lobs.
PG, Mann, Russ, and Harden all look like they have plays in here (PG has multiple) where they were flat out late and DJ just beat them to their spot for the easy lob.
And credit to Reggie, he hit some really tough shots.
This team so heavy. As best player in the team, Russ needs step up, play like real MVP, Kawhi should be Robin support Russ.
POA has always been a problem for 213 Era. Losing Beverley just made it worse.
Harden trade is a big mistake. We need guys like Batum and RoCo now more than ever.
Need to sell high on Norm this season
We all know Norm, Harden suck at defense,. Zu got completely cooked by the simple PnRs. Ty did nothing to adjust the entire game.