well he does not stay in front of anybody, in fact, he gets straight up dribbled without any effort from anybody.. just to name two emblematic moments, both game clinching defenses were terrible despite being in our favor, let me brake it down:
- the first one, he is contesting a shot from behind the player shooting a 3, so anything he can achive, is fouling the player, instead leaves the player a free shot (granted it's unbalanced, but still free) with no rpessure
- the second one, against iggy is downright pathetic, one on one situation against one of the worst shooters in the league, anybody knows he is going to the rim, yet belinelli manages to not only not hold him off with his body, but he doesn't even stay in front of him, leaving him a clean path to the rim where timmy actually contest the shot.
and tbh, if you look closely to his halfcourt D, you can see that he never actually guards anybody off the ball, takes half an hour to recover from a screen and so on.. neal was only terrible at recovering from help D, he was never being picked up like belinelli is tbh..