I thought this would be a thread about how gutless they are in refusing to stand up to China while a bunch of women's tennis players are easily and proudly able to do so.

I guess that could be considered "guarding their positions" as well.

Dunno but it looks like Phoenix plays it.

I guess that could be considered "guarding their positions" as well.

Paul doesn't guard his position much anymore but he used to when he was younger. He gets a pass but the younger guys nah. There is no reason for a dude in his 20's to be ducking covers on defense. Some dudes have never bothered to guard their position. Others have deferred for so long that I cannot remember a time in which they actually did it. Lebron James for instance. Steph Curry also.

I don't agree with this. If you have a very high usage guard you should be trying to rest him as much as possible on defense. Doing ALL the work on offense can be pretty tiring. Let those guys rest on the other end and just guard the guy standing in the corner.

Its easy as hell to play offense when you ain't checking anyone.

Seems to me your beef is with coaching, not the players. The players arent the ones deciding what type of defense they are gonna play

Best players on NBA teams (particularly superstar guys) have always dictated whom they want to check if the guy plays their position. Do you think a young Westbrook was going to allow Scotty Fucking Brooks tell him whom he was going to guard if he wanted to guard Chris Paul? It doesn't work like that.

Yes, it does work like that. Theres like a dozen guys or less in the NBA who can tell their coach who they are going to guard and have the coach bow to it. Defensive game plans are way too schemed up to let some player say no fuck that, re-do your whole plan, im checking this guy today.

Theres a lot of thought put into this shit. It aint playground hoops

Its not done to hide anything. Its a strategic choice based on a shit ton of variables that teams have entire teams of people dedicated to.

Its the same reason Giannis doesnt guard KD in Nets matchups. Giannis a fucking dog. Nobody would say hes gutless. And hes literally a DPOY defender. Hes not ducking KD, hes just too valuable to the Bucks to risk him getting fouled up in the first quarter

:lol:

You just said Giannis is gutless.

Ok. I’ll disagree

Agreed with FF - LTG is applying playgroud logic to a professional game. In American Airlines Arena, Doncic is guarding Bogdanovic so he doesn't get into foul trouble guarding Trae Young. Jason Kidd would be stupid to start Doncic on Young.

In Rucker Park, Doncic and Young are checking each other.

Oh yeah and the "scheme" (if you want to call it that) isn't Rocket Science either. They just simply hide weak asses defenders on non offensive threats. Scary, gutless ass way to play the game

Hey Luka, you're on Young tonight.

And Young is fouled. Oh my! That's Doncic's sixth foul and he's out of the game in the first quarter!

Fuck yeah, we ain't going to duck nobody

And remember Vegan you are the king of calling players b**ches also. I guess that doesn't extend to the actual playing of the game I see.

If the Hawks play Portland tonight who does Trae Young guard and whom should he guard?