Yeah. James needs screens. Kawhi needs someone to show out. One on one Kawhi would kill Lebron most of the time.
you weren't watching then. For the most part Kawhi was forcing lebron to pick one side, where Duncan would come and contest. Which is good D, but what would happen if we had David Lee there...
If someone would have given young Tony Allen more opportunities, he would become into Kobe....
It's too hard for some players admit Kawhi has the talent, the desire, and the ability to improve.
“Everybody doesn't improve," Popovich said before a recent Spurs' game in Minnesota. "You know, some guys can't learn and there's a lot of guys that have been talented that haven't made it in the league or made it for just a short time because they couldn't go to the next step or continue to get better."
"But he has a great capacity to absorb things and he works hard. He comes early to practice; he stays after. Our development guys work with him constantly and he wears them out. He really wants to be good and he's got some talents to work with, so that's a good combination.”
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-...rs-san-antonio
He's not perfect for sure, but that guy saying "it happened PLENTY of times last night" is...
Not really tbh. If you are going to count that against him, than you have to account for players taking the whole possession just to screen kawhi out of the ballhandler. Barely anyone tries to face Kawhi in one on one isolation, and for good reason, they just end up looking stupid and overmatched. Everyone.
He's obviously referring to guys who have the ability to get better but don't have the same opportunity as other guys (like Paul George or Butler). I don't think he meant anything by it.
For a good reason LeBron's Usg vs Kawhi is just 10%
I missed the game tbh so I can't speak on it
Did you even watch the game?
yes, thank you.
Then you saw Lebron breeze past him on one on one situations.
how come he couldn't score against him then?
It didn't? I'm wrong? Because I have the game DVRd and will go back to check to see if I am wrong.
Funny that Kawhi's also one of the best help defenders in the league...that deadly combo makes him so great.
People here don't like PtR but I find this article very interesting.
http://www.poundingtherock.com/2016/...-elite-big-man
Are you talking about when he was helped out? I watched the game and I don't think that Lebron had zero points. I'll check the stats to see if he did. I thought he had 22 points. Who completely smashed Kawhi then since he only had less than half as many points? Because if Lebron was stopped then Kawhi must have been obliterated.
Re-watch it.
I guess I'll have to. Maybe I am getting old becuase I thought I saw Lebron casually stroll through everyone to dunk the ball. Another time I thought I saw him head to the base line while Kawhi just froze almost going in the opposite direction.
pretty sure you need to rewatch the game.
I guess I will and I'll jot down the quarter and time in order to jog my memory.
It's clear we didn't watch the same game. Also, like I've said before, LeBron USG% against Kawhi shows there weren't many of those situations.
Just out of curiosity, plenty of times mean just...2?
Oh, was I already supposed to have my notes? I didn't realize this was a written exam and I needed to provide every occurrence instead of a couple of examples.
Kawhi's defense RPM is 4.29, which is among the best; but TD's is 6.17, the best in NBA. No statistics is perfece, but this DRPM is a very good indicator of how much a team relies one player for their defense. That TD & Kawhi are 1A and 1B for the Spur's best defense is a fair assessment. That Tim had been playing in (relatively) bad defense teams does not mean he is not valuable for the Spurs. The same thing for Kawhi, because TD is always there behind him. Since Kawhi's rookie year, TD has actually played MORE games than him.
Yes, he has which has been nice to hear. Well, someone has to with Amin and Ethan always caping for the warriors and being sarcastic about their disdain for the spurs.
You also have to look at total raw stats.
Defensive Win Shares 1. Kawhi Leonard ▪ SAS 3.4 2. Andre Drummond ▪ DET 3.1 3. Hassan Whiteside ▪ MIA 2.7 4. Paul George ▪ IND 2.6 5. DeAndre Jordan ▪ LAC 2.5 6. Draymond Green ▪ GSW 2.5 7. Tim Duncan ▪ SAS 2.4 8. LaMarcus Aldridge ▪ SAS 2.4
Kawhi wins this hands down.
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