Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies Game Thread

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

no it didn't get better. he's horrible of D. stop it. there's no excuse to be 10 points worst defensively on a top-5 defense. if you want me to pat him on the back for holding an efficient player to 5-20, I'll do that. everyone that has watched him, boston or memphis, will tell he loses his man, and is lazy.

He held his matchups to 39% since arriving in Memphis. That's not horrible on D. I already mentioned that since he and Alen both rotated, the RTG was always going to heavily skew in favor of Allen since he's the better defender and he was playing against more second units than Green was - plus you'll able to find a correlation in the margins between starters and bench players. They were also #11 in defensive rating prior to the Green trade and shot up to #2 after they acquired him. So if we're going by addition by subtraction, their defense got better when they gained him.

conley has been hurt for a few months now. marc has been a bytch. where was green to step up the scoring load? no where.

He was more aggressive, he just doesn't have the skillset to be a #1 option. Yall never got him for that.

and if you're gonna take shots away from the bigs? fine. don't shoot those struggle fades and be a ball stopper.

Green doesn't stop the ball. He wouldn't need to take struggle jumpers if the bigs that were clogging up the paint actually did something useful with the ball.

celtics went from choosing between okafor or towns, to fighting for an 8th spot since the trade. addition by subtraction

They got better and better because Stevens was slowly able to implement his system after the Rondo trade. If Green was still there, they'd still be just as good.