holfresh wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:Anthony's position is an issue especially on D. Too slow for the 3, where he can also be worn down chasing people, but then you put him at the 4 and he gets banged up and can't provide any shot blocking presence.

He also loses some ability to go to the basket when he's at 3, and it seems that he's had his shots blocked more often in recent years.

Easier for George to go to 4 because of so many stretch players at the position. He is quick enough to stay in front of them and does not have to worry about the many 4s with no post skills, but he will also get banged around at some point. The trade off is that he doesn't have to run around as much as he would at 3.

Not true, he defends when he wants to..He isn't always engaged and I really don't blame him given the burden he usually carries on offense...I have seen him defend LeBron really well when engaged and Paul George as well...

Right now LeBron is taking his defensive assignments off because GS don't have an offensive player on the court to engage him...He expends his energy on the offensive end...When you are giving so much effort on one end then something have to give...

Not sure you can say James is taking that much time off on D, but he also does a lot more than Anthony can do on the court. His "time off" seems to be coming as he walks the ball up the court to initiate the Cav's ISO offense.

Anthony has not been a terrible defender for the Knicks, and can be pretty good on the perimeter at times, but he has limitations and now he is fighting Father Time, too.

Will be interesting to see where his weight is this year and if the injury has further affected his vertical game.