Here's something I haven't heard anyone talking about...
Have any of you noticed just how good Roddy is at defending MUCH larger players?
It happens at least 2 or 3 times a game. Roddy gets switched onto the other team's much bigger PF or SF and has to go one on one with them. I'd say at least 75% of the time Roddy stops them. It was most noticable against OKC this week, OKC kept trying to work things so Roddy would end up on Durant... and it seemed clear that Carlisle didn't even care, he just kept letting it happen and Roddy basically stopped Durant every time.
He does a really good job of holding his ground against much bigger players and his long arms and insane leaping ability make it waay harder to get a shot up over him than those big players usually expect.
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