Michael Pina

They've had some real clunkers.

And when you watch them, they still make mistakes at the point of attack.

They'll have someone double when the weak side defender has no idea that that is actually the strategy.

So no help the helper there.

They've got a lot of three-point luck, as I said earlier, with the zone.

It has been successful.

And they play a lot of zone when they're double big still.

And...

They lost two games against the Portland Trail Blazers back-to-back recently.

And I think it was after the first one, I can't remember.

But Eme Odoka called their game plan discipline horrendous.

And part of it was he specifically cited Danny Avdija, who Tyson said the Zebras were the reason that Danny had such a great game, which is ridiculous.

Yeah.

But like he specifically said, he may that, you know, we didn't force him to,

there were guys that we did we didn't force to the right direction and it's like everyone around the nba knows that denny abdia wants to get to his right hand and you watch that game and they let denny abdia get to his right hand over and over and over again and it's like clear that the coaching staff told them that is not what we want to do and it happened so i i think like

there's just elements of their defense that are frustrating to me.

I don't know if that's fair.

If you, if you feel the same way or similar about their defense, but like when your offense is what it is and is really worrisome in crunch time in particular and in the fourth quarters of games and you play so slow, like 25% of their shots are with seven or fewer seconds on the shot clock.

And some of that is offensive rebounding, but some of that is just cause they play really slow, but you need your defense to be elite.

And I think,