When Are We Going To Stop Overrating Giannis' Defense?

[threattonature]

I mean he let Hailburton go right by him that was disgraceful

Haliburton had already done it a few times earlier in the game. It was dumb for the Bucks to allow that switch so easily or to not have a secondary defender cutting off one side so that Giannis could overplay him on the drive to one side to give him a fighting chance. Giannis doesn't have the lateral quickness anymore to stay in front of PGs like that anymore nor the quickness to catch up and block it when he's blown past.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Haliburton had already done it a few times earlier in the game. It was dumb for the Bucks to allow that switch so easily or to not have a secondary defender cutting off one side so that Giannis could overplay him on the drive to one side to give him a fighting chance. Giannis doesn't have the lateral quickness anymore to stay in front of PGs like that anymore nor the quickness to catch up and block it when he's blown past.

Yeah but he has length he has to make that shot difficult for him Jesus...

Cmon man

 

[threattonature]

Yeah but he has length he has to make that shot difficult for him Jesus...

Cmon man

That's where Haliburton's body positioning came into play. He did the subtle cutting in front of Giannis before jumping so to block it Giannis would have to go through his body and foul him. It was bad D by Giannis who also shouldn't have been playing so far up on Tyrese in the first place considering Tyrese had just blown past him.

 

[MikelArteta]

If Jokic was down 1-3 in the 1st round and the game-winning bucket was scored on him like this, the whole front page would be filled with threads shytting on his defense.

Nothing but crickets when it happens to Giannis.

Only 1 playoff win in over 1000 days.

But TheColi ain’t got no smoke for him.

The coli dot com

Look at the starters game 1 and then the starters yesterday Giannis is the only guy whose the same. But you expect him to win with a bunch of scrubs

yesterday



game 1

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

The coli dot com

Look at the starters game 1 and then the starters yesterday Giannis is the only guy whose the same. But you expect him to win with a bunch of scrubs

yesterday



game 1

I'm not sure how this debunks what I said.

Do you think when posters on here are shytting on Jokic's defense they're using the appropriate context, or do they just like shytting on him because it's low-hanging fruit? Do you think whenever the majority on here is shytting on a particular star's defense they're being truthful in their assessment or just doing it to hate?

Also, I don't know why you're referencing the lineups he's playing with in regards to him getting cooked 1v1 at the end of the game.