Posted by trevor:
Actually, Detroit for the most part played Shaq single coverage. Despite the size and weight difference, Big Ben & even Sheed did a great job on Shaq. But, like I said it would mostly single coverage. The got beat by good team ball and it was mainly a guard orientated attack that killed LA. The couldn't guard Rip, Chauncy or Prince. Look At Sheed and Ben's averages for the series.
As such, Deke (and his 10-15min a game which is all he can do)has shown himself to be such a defensive liability now that he cant move his feet. I say once again, give him to chi-town. If all we need is his fould, we can pick up someone from the nbdl for that. Shoot, find adn re-sign dudley or night if that all we want
About Detroit, they just played such a great defense that even though they single covered Shaq, he really didn't have much space to opperate because Detroit's defenders were all aover the court. Thats why they had so many steals. It was an incredible defensive effort from everyone of the players.
About Deke, don't forget another important fact about him, he is an expiring contract. Thats gold when making deals. If you throw all of the expiring contracts you have it gives you practically no more chances at making more deals. Who knows who will be avaliable come the trading deadline. If Isiah wanted Crawford so much he would have already given him Deke, but he knows that as a bussiness you need some room to make other movements later on. It will be good if we can get Crawford, but we must be careful not to lose all our chances of making future deals.
