Houston sucks. Mike D’Antoni is a regular season coach.
What this playoff is really driving home to me is that this direction of "3 and D" players is too easy to exploit as there are few that are able to be multi-dimensional offensively and strong enough defensively. With Cleveland, it's too easy to exploit guys like Korver defensively. With Houston, the defenders like Tucker and Mbah a Moute are not good enough offensively to not allow a good team to be able to fall off of him effectively.
Korver is not a 3 and D player
He’s a 3 and no D player ... missing my point if that is what you are focusing in on
You're missing the point if you're using Korver as any kind of data point about the 3 and D movement. He's not part of it.
It’s more about specialization in my mind and having limited focal points offensively.
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Bruce Bowen to me was an original example. Great D and made himself into a passable offensive player.
A guy like Korver swings the other way as a great shooter that in an ideal world you hide in defense.
The unicorn is the great shooter that is also a tremendous defender.
In all examples, these players are limited offensively in what they do well versus what a good defense forces them into.
