IT's defense is so bad, though it's exacerbated by this Cavs defense as a whole being putrid.
To be fair, all he really has to do is average around 23-25 PPG, like Kyrie did last season with Cleveland. So far, he has 4 points tonight, and Kyrie's defense last year was bad as well, so it's not a major regression by putting IT in there instead of Kyrie for Cleveland.
It absolutely is a major regression. Where both were bad defenders in Cleveland, at least Kyrie didn't give a major mismatch post-up opportunity like IT does. That's a significant change that will only get exposed the more IT plays.
Yeah, it's a very sizable regression. IT is awful on defence
I mean, I don't disagree that Isaiah's defense is awful, but if we compare it to Kyrie's defense last year, it wasn't that worse I believe.
I forget who, but I think someone on here a few months ago posted something that showed Isaiah like last in the league at a certain defensive metric, and Kyrie very close to Isaiah (also real bad).
But yeah, the size difference is noticeable and a factor, I agree with that.