Fact: It's just life on the road with Jeff Boals! How many opposing players have had career nights against Jackson Paveletzke? Seems like it has happened a lot.
Jeff doesn't play defense anymore sadly. I fixed it for ya.
Find me a decent guard, and I'll find you a career night when Pavs comes to town.
The extent you reach to blame Pavs for things is pretty ridiculous.
First, how much time did Pavs spend guarding Wills last night? Outside of switches -- which are built into Boals' scheme -- basically none.
And if that had been the matchup, wouldn't that be an indictment of Boals? He has EJ4, Brown, Elliot, and Mitchell to throw at Wills, and you think he chose Pavs?
We're 358th in the country defending the three. Pavs isn't the only problem, my man. What scheme changes have we made?
Pavs isn't the only bad defender on this team for sure. He's just the worst of a bad bunch. Statistically, the next 2 worst guys in the rotation are EJ4 and AJC.
It's not all his fault, but it's also not a coincidence we've had about 12 guards have career scoring nights against us this year.
Sadly, Sheldon is actually a pretty good defender but he's still been a net negative this year because of his offensive shooting woes. His offense is so bad he's almost unplayable.
As for what we've done scheme wise? Well for one, we inserted E26 into the rotation. It looks like an obvious move now, but certainly wasn't when the move was made to replace Hadaway. If you recall we tried Evans first.
Second, we're playing a lot more zone than Boals traditionally likes. It's worked well for stretches and really mitigated our guards slow feet on D allowing dribble penetration. We've also played some match up and extended zone to mitigate the 3 ball. I honestly think this team is a much better zone than man team in general. Problem is it's just so hard to rebound out of for an already poor rebounding team that what we gain on stopping the drive and 3, we tend to give up in offensive boards.
Third, we've started picking up pressure full court and 3/4 court. Sometimes for steals, but mostly to eat into the shot clock and give us less time we have to defend in the half court.