somethingshesaid
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So I understand that Suns, like most or all other teams, currently use switching defense. Does that mean at times "the Warden" has to stop guarding the opponent's best player and might guard a player who, offensively, is a waste of his skill to guard? Or is the switching smarter than that?
In that regular-season game where the Hawks beat the Suns just because Trae Young exploded, I wondered how Young managed to defeat Bridges' defense. If Bridges just wasn't guarding Young, that explains it but it doesn't make sense. If a player like Trae Young is torching the Suns, why wouldn't they guard him with Bridges?
My lack of understanding is probably because this switching-defense thing seems to have caught on since I left fanhood and I don't know what's so great about it. One page I read claims that teams have to use switching because offenses now stretch all the way to the three-point line, and traditional defenses are no longer effective. I'm skeptical. (For one thing, it's not obvious how switching more effectively negates the stretching of offenses.) Could it really be because just too few players these days are good at man-to-man defense?
In that regular-season game where the Hawks beat the Suns just because Trae Young exploded, I wondered how Young managed to defeat Bridges' defense. If Bridges just wasn't guarding Young, that explains it but it doesn't make sense. If a player like Trae Young is torching the Suns, why wouldn't they guard him with Bridges?
My lack of understanding is probably because this switching-defense thing seems to have caught on since I left fanhood and I don't know what's so great about it. One page I read claims that teams have to use switching because offenses now stretch all the way to the three-point line, and traditional defenses are no longer effective. I'm skeptical. (For one thing, it's not obvious how switching more effectively negates the stretching of offenses.) Could it really be because just too few players these days are good at man-to-man defense?