The defense ought to be concerning everybody. Like you said, it's like they completely forgot what they were supposed to be doing...and no, it's not even the new guys blowing the assignments - it's the guys who have been here.
Is this team missing Del Harris more than we think? Are they coasting? Are they a little more scarred than we think?
The rotations and personnel is playing a role in this, I believe. But there are other issues at work here that bother me. Primarily, this team's defense has been built around the center position. For all of the grief that Diop and Damp take, they have really helped this team defensively. But right now, they aren't having the same impact. Maybe some of it is health related, especially obvious with Damp...
But teams are getting smaller and smaller, and seem to be getting more effective at pulling our bigs away from the basket. Even tonight, a team like Washington, who plays Haywood at center, pulled our centers away from the basket and used back-cuts to get some easy baskets. (We should know something about that too. We do that some of that with our guys too, and they aren't big offensive threats.) And without the bigs at the basket, there is no resistance. Heck, Devin Harris looks like the only guy on the team who seems interested in getting a stop or making a hard foul.
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