I know it's early but curious to know what Roy and Nick think of our defense so far this year...?
As for Kyrie vs IT on defense, hope Uncle Drew can maintain this level of effort and I would very easily win this argument:
https://twitter.com/Timi_093/status/924642841154015234
So far, I was wrong. I'll admit that. Never expected Tatum, Kyrie or Brown to be playing at the defensive level that they are. Horford is playing better defense than last year as well. And the defensive rebounding has been well beyond what I expected.
One caveat, they haven't played any really good offensive teams thus far. Not one team they played has a good three point game.
Yes that's true.
We will learn a lot more about our defense on monday night against the spurs.
But at least we can all say :
- Our defensive strategy is SOUND
- Players are trying HARD
- Athleticism and length is an upgrade and it IS helping,
- Baynes provides toughness down low (less fouling out of despair, by getting killed by lowpost scorers like monroe, howard, embid, etc...)
- We are a better rebounding team than last year
- Kyrie is less of a defensive liability than IT...
I know it's still early but I'm relatively confident the points above will hold true this year.
I truly believe that with Hayward not inkured and a good pick up before the trade deadline we would be 6-0 on our way to a competitive NBA finals lost against the warriors...
Kyrie and Tatum confirmed what I thought they could be defensively, the one I can't wait to brag about is once Semi prove to be as good (if not better) than Crowder defensively.