I think that's the tradeoff for his offensive production and defense. He legit plays both ends of the court at a pretty high level. Bojan is solid offensively, and a weaker defender. My bet is that could change for Grant if he had a change in his role.
He also has a worse defensive Raptor rating so far this season. I think we are watching different parts of the game. Offensive rebounds and backdoor cuts happen at most 2-3 times a game. They are bad and simple to prevent so they stick out more. Steals are nice, especially for my fantasy team but they are not always great indicators of defense.
And that almost certainly would have been the game.
Yep. Refs pretty handily decided the game. We still played like crap so we didn't really deserve the win, but that's a rough way to end it.
He had all those issues last year and was giving up the space cadet stuff and he wasn’t getting his hands on the ball. The statement is not “Donovan is a great defender” the statement is “Donovan has improved as a defender” and I really think anyone that disagrees doesn’t remember last year much imo.
The weird one was the travel… it looked like he jumped up and down and no one really cared.
Yeah, I get the argument. I just don't think he improved defensively and somehow gotten worse. He is worse defensively because he has made a ****** adjustment defensively when he sees a screen which happens most of the game.
I think we go away from it lots of times because Donovan decides to go hero ball. That's what happened in this game.
Respectfully disagree. I’ve seen him more engaged in that end. The steals and deflections to me are very valuable. It’s not like he’s Allen Iverson or Westbrook constantly gambling. I think he’s played much better. None of our guys are great at navigating screens. Mike is the best but he has nights where he does on a ton of them.
