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I'll never forget Dennis Rodman's Defensive player of the year award acceptance speech, 1990. Literally crying for most of it out of passion for playing defence :')
1) Draymond is STILL a stifling defender it’s crazy, 2) the pelicans perimeter defenders weren’t a fluke like I thought last season, 3) good luck getting to the rim in Philly and Miami and Memphis. Awesome video
4) The NBA intentionally put as many celtics highlights as possible while leaving out the warriors defense for the most part, to go along with the narrative that the Celtics have a better defense.
@@judoka. except they don’t. Before draymond got injured the warriors had a defensive rating of 100.5, which was without klay who would’ve made it go under 100. And even after GP2, draymond and klay all missing a combined ~100 games, the warriors were still tied with the celtics for best defensive rating in the league at 106.9. Any conclusion you come to, the warriors have a much much better defense than the celtics. You saw it in the finals too.
@@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070 in the playoffs, the warriors had a defensive rating of 109.6. the celtics had a defensive rating of 106.3. last time i checked, 106.3 is better than 109.6.
This 2021-22 Celtics team was some of the very best defensive personnel that the NBA has ever seen. The Warriors were also an amazing defensive team led by one of the very greatest defenders in NBA history including arguably the greatest defender of his generation in Draymond and coached by one of the greatest defensive coaches in NBA history in Steve Kerr. It was great to see the two best defensive teams in the entire NBA face off in the Finals and prove to the fools who say that defense is non-existent/doesn't matter in today's NBA wrong.
@@adamullmann626 I think you meant to say "then the generation would have to be a weak one", but I wouldn't call a generation that has defenders such as Kawhi, Giannis, Gobert, AD, etc in addition to Draymond a "weak defensive generation"... Good defense just looks different in recent years than it has in past eras due to the fact that today's leaguewide style of team offense is harder to defend than the leaguewide style of team offense in any past era in NBA history because of the combination of pace picking back up to where it was in the 80s as well as the extra 3pt shots that are being attempted which makes for more spacing to have to defend as well an extra point that comes along with a made 3pt shot. Draymond is a better defender than say... Dennis Rodman. THAT'S how great Draymond is defensively.
@@paulie1055 Well to be fair I did say "some of" the very best defensive personnel that the NBA has ever seen. The 2019 Raptors after they added Marc Gasol midway through the season did have arguably slightly better defensive personnel than the 2022 Celtics, but the 2022 Celtics' defensive personnel is also arguably slightly better than the 2019 Raptors defensive personnel because they are just that close. Between Robert Williams, Smart, Horford, Tatum, Brown and Grant Williams they had a player to fit every defensive role extremely well. Their weakest links defensively out of those 6 players were Brown and Grant Williams and they were both still solid defenders who fit their defensive roles well. Then of course there are other defensive personnel that you can bring into the conversation such as the Moses/Bobby Jones/Dr. J/Cheeks Sixers, the McHale/Bird/Parish/DJ/Walton Celtics, the Rodman/Laimbeer/IT/Dumars/Salley Pistons, the Pippen/Jordan/Rodman/Harper Bulls, the Ben Wallace/Rasheed Wallace/Prince/Billups Pistons, the Duncan/Bowen/Ginobili/Horry Spurs, the KG/Rondo/Perkins/Pierce Celtics, the Kawhi/Duncan/Danny Green/Ginobili Spurs, the Dray/Iggy/KD/Klay/Steph Warriors, and of course the 2019 Raptors and 2022 Celtics that we are talking about. And those are just some of the NBA championship/conference championship winning teams. There are all-time elite defensive personnel that never won a title or reached the Finals such as the Nance/Harper/Hot Rod/Daugherty Cavs and the Paul George/Hibbert/West/Hill/Stephenson Pacers along with some others as well as more teams that did win the NBA or conference title that I didn't mention. I'm sure I missed some big ones in terms of great defensive personnel that didn't end up winning a title or conference title, but you get my point. Then of course there are pre-1980 teams which I don't really get into because I don't like to act like I'm well informed about an era that doesn't have a ton of information available to today's public. I would put the 2022 Celtics defensive personnel up against pretty much any one of those teams' defensive personnel.
I hate how the nba likes to censor all news about the Miami heat because they aren’t a flashy team. Literally best three point shooting team and best three point defending team this season and they didn’t talk about it.
Jrue Holiday, absolute madman. He's been that dude since last season. Also, what the fuck is Herb Jones? He's not real. I can't believe he's just a rookie, he's smart as hell on the perimeter.
Little kiddo leaving out bed since first time in 10 years. Warriors are hell of elite defensive team since âgés. They smoked Celtics on thid point. So what kind of liars did you trying to spread here by underlines false statements?
I'm thinking about doing a scaling video between good defensive players. Who should it be? I posted a video yesterday scaling Kevin Durant vs Steph Curry.
Sometimes nba doesn't make sense. They can literally call push foul 50 feet from the basket, but you can get closelined on the drive and no one will care
it's cuz he was the best defender on the #1 defensive team, kinda dumb but that's also why Draymond Green was the favorite to win it by far until he got injured cuz the warriors were the number 1 defensive team until his injury
lol I just don't watch the same games as you, Jrue is an elite defender... Marcus Smart is just better, no if ands or buts. This is also just my opinion.
@@silasliot4644 Yeah Smart is probably a little better at man defense. Much better at flopping and whining at the refs. Got so sick of his sorry ass by the end of the playoffs. Everybody does it, but some dudes do it more. Draymond is clearly superior in quality, number of positions he can guard and his genius level team D and quarterbacking the D. But his long injury precluded him from consideration. It's a shame. I really dislike the guy and his yapping mouth, but he is one of the best defenders I have ever seen and deserved the recognition.
I automatically know I’m talking to someone that doesn’t know basketball when they say players today don’t play defense. Some of the best defenders of all time play in this era. Every rule has been made to make it harder to play defense and these guys still do their thing on defense. Side note Jose Alvarado representing Brooklyn really well with the lock up 💪🏼💪🏼
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so the Heat broke the playoff's record for most steals, and also being one of the best defensive teams in the NBA last season only to have majority of the highlights against them? Wow NBA must really hate the Heat haha
I love how Al Horford does the thing where he's looking for the ball even though it went two feet to his left lol it's not like when Whiteside did it and swatted that shit into the stands... What a goof lol
They should have traded Brown in my opinion, he’s the more turnover pron between him and Tatum and they could have gotten a lot of pieces for him, and he also gets to go be #1 somewhere else potentially
in today's league, any of the great centers of the previous era, Oleajuwon, O'neal, Robinson and Ewing would make any defense a pulp. who would defend such centers, for example in Warriors, not that clown Green. A real center against Warriors would regularly score 35-50 points in a game.
As a Celtics fan it pains me why they didn't pound the paint after Games 1-3 for that very reason. Robert Williams and Al Horford interchangeably bodied Draymond on every play yet they still just settled for sending Tatum and Brown straight into the teeth of the defense every play to turn the ball over. In the first few games they lived in the paint and it opened up the perimeter eruption of Games 1 and 3 when GS pulled their defense closer and tried to go bigger. This Warriors team was not better than the Celtics, not even close. But they believed that they were and played like it. C's just gave up on a gameplan after Game 3.
Lol them 2 points ain’t beating the 3 points the warriors are hitting. Do you understand why a player like Rudy gobert sucks at defense in the playoffs? Because he can’t guard on the perimeter. While teams today have smaller bigs, they have bigs that can shoot, so they run a lot of pick and pop action. Shaq, Hakeem and Ewing would consistently be on an island at the three point line with some of the best ball handlers of all time, they’d be in foul trouble and hurting their team on defense more than helping them on offense against some of the better teams in todays NBA.
@@ericcormier1949 stfu little kiddo. Warriors stomped Celtics plain and simple. More clever, more resilient, stronger on both ends of the floor. Deal with it and go to cry again.
*@Thomas Dixon* That wasn't a travel, he only took 2 steps after ending his dribble. His 2 steps do not start counting until he ends his dribble by touching the ball with both hands at which point his left foot was already touching the floor so that doesn't count as a step. Then he stepped right (step 1), stepped left (step 2) and then launched off of that same left foot without taking another step. Legal 2 step move.
I’m looking at the defensive foul on draymond green when he was guarding Jalen brown . You can’t wrap someone’s arm I’m glad they slow motion captured the dirtiest team in the league in their true colors
Marcus Smart would be on another level if he stopped flipping and focused on winning plays instead of stealing plays. He was tripple teamed at halfcourt and tatum was wide open streaking down the other side. It would of been close but he could of put up a 3 to try and tie it.
@@MinerElfer Dont really understand your comment. Tatum was wide open, he should of launched it to him as soon as he got the ball. And he flailed his arms like he was trying to draw a foul
As Smart got the ball and was dribbling up court,he looked to Tatum and fumbled the ball. While trying to regain his dribble holiday picked his pocket. Smart would have passed it but unfortunately lost it. Smart is a great player and you can argue that he should have passed it right away but Smart doesn’t have that kind of point guard skills yet
@@MinerElfer 100% on point. The thing I dont like though, is flailing your arms afterwards and not just owning up. Same thing on the previous play when he got blocked, he looked around and tried to bring attention to something else. To me it just shows a sense of insecurity, and you cant have a leader whose insecure.
