[quote name="MJsaver"]
29th in defense last year |I
No way we can be that bad this year , right.............right ?[/quote]I'm worried, for real.
Saw on some other Lakers site (can't remember which) that Byron had said something like the team "better be ready to play defense", and I was like "Says who? You? You were like almost dead last, bruh."
But, I mean, we'll see. That Finals Nets team wasn't terrible on defense. Same w/ his Hornets squad: not terrible on defense (they had David West, no?)
Maybe that's what he meant when he said the team better be ready defensively: "Better be ready, because defensively, we will not be terrible. We will be unterrible."
Like I said, just have to see for ourselves. My 2 worries w/ him are defensively, and being a player's coach, and if that says Swaggy at the 3, that's what I mean. I couldn't see Pop or Phil or Auerbach being like "Yeah, trying Swaggy at the 3."
But... just because he uses a player's pop name doesn't mean he doesn't mean Xs & Os, and doesn't mean he can't implement them.
We'll see.
I'm giving you a fair shake, #4. We'll see...