What an overrated player Gobert is
Dude, they have Jaxson Hayes and no center. How are you not able to produce??
Lakers have done a good job negating Gobert's impact.
* Main strength is his interior defense but he can't do that if he is out on the three point line defending Rui or switching onto the Lakers ball-handlers.
* 2nd strength is his rebounding but he can't control the backboards when he is out at the three point line defending Rui or Lakers ball-handlers.
Gobert is playing good defense. He is doing a good job. LAL just aren't allowing him to play to his strengths.
This is the main reason Jaxson Hayes is playing so little. It is to stop Gobert from being able to camp out in the paint and screw up the Lakers offense.
It is a shame he doesn't have enough of an offensive game to exploit mismatches. He showed some of that a few years ago but then his teams stopped going to him. I'd like to see it more when guards are on him.
Gotta give Lakers forwards credit too for keeping Gobert off the offensive glass. Rui, LeBron, Luka, DFS; they are all doing a great job of containing Gobert's rebounding. Lakers got a lot of big muscular forwards. They are strong enough to compete with Gobert. LAL is not an undersized as their height listings (lack of center) make them seem. Big muscular forwards.
