[Chauncey Billups] says he struggles with the fact that Rudy Gobert is a 4x Defensive Player of the Year, yet teams are still purposely attacking him in the playoffs: “We attacked Rudy all series — you don’t just attack great defensive players, you try to go away from them…”
by Smeltanddealtit
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People get scored on. Even the goats are scored on constantly. It’s a big man award, he’s the best paint defender in the league.
When they attack him it’s away from the paint.
He also orchestrated the best defense in the league that was borderline atrocious the decade plus before his arrival.
Rudy slander is so fucking weird.
If basketball were 1 on 1, Chauncey is completely correct. But in real basketball, help D and rim protection are real things, and not every rim protector is also good at perimeter defense. I’d guess almost none of them are.
I’m sure Rudy will give Chauncey’s opinion a ton of thought as he’s inducted into the HOF
I dunno, when a team plans their entire offense against a guy, that’s a compliment imo. That Jazz-Clippers series was on Bogdonavic, Mitchell, Conley and Ingles getting blown by on repeat.
this level of not knowing ball must really pump up portland fans lmao
Chauncey I’m about to throw hands bro. Focus on coaching your team to a better record than 81-165 all-time
He was not very effective against the Mavs Pnr..none of our bigs were. That may have something to do with Luka’s greatness in the Pnr because nobody can really stop him there but regardless they definitely exploited Rudy and our bigs getting them in space then throwing the lob over the top when they committed to the ball handler.
I mean there is no excuse why with three 7 footers on the roster starting you can’t defend the lob attack better, in the Boston series with old ass Horford and hobbled Porzingis it was a non factor. That was a bad series all around from our best players to the coaches and I’ll never understand how badly prepared we looked in that series but it does play to the narrative about Rudy’s ability to get exploited in playoff series even if it wasn’t all his fault.
Yeah they deliberately attack him to get him in foul trouble.