The Spurs' varied skills on defense..(or lack thereof) ..from 48MoH

[therealtruth]

Bonner may be okay with post defense, but most of the offense that he sees is out on the floor as he tries to guard big perimeter players. He also makes as many physical and mental mistakes on rotation defense as any player on the team.

Most Spur fans are not so gullible to be sucked into one aspect of his defense and then declare him a defensive star.

There definitely some players that tend to torch Bonner. I can think of Chris Bosh, Al Harrington, and Lamar Odom. He usually doesn't have a prayer against those guys. Those guys tend to attack him of the dribble where he's vulnerable.

[ElNono]

How does that work? Either you cover him on the 3 pointer and open up the lane for Tony/Manu, or you don't and leave yourself vulnerable for the kickout to him?

The theory behind the 'stretch-4' is that one of the two opposing bigs will have to make the decision of helping inside or closing out on the kick out, but good pick and roll defensive teams (like Memphis) basically never used a big to do that. Guys like OJ Mayo would constantly end up closing in on Matt, and this is where his slow-release really rears it's ugly head, because he would pass up the shots even though he should be able to put up a shot over him.