re: Josh Hart with 23 points in his Blazers debut

When I say average, he just needs to care more and not fall asleep constantly. Going from where he is to that would be huge.

Curry comp is weird. He's above average. He works hard, executes the scheme. He's just small. And the Warriors understand his limits and built a roster to cover them. If you're building a roster and asking Ingram to be force on defense, you've lost the plot

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Jrue/Lonzo, Lonzo/Hart, and Hart/Herb

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Those defenses largely sucked too. Not because they needed Ingram on ball, but because he and Zion were garbage off ball. Just a small improvement there would be a huge difference for the team. No matter how locked up Holiday or Herb have a guy, if one teammate in the back falls asleep for a second, thats a bucket. Likewise, you can get by with non lock down defenders if you know scheme + execute.

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ultimately what SVG and other observers have said is true, our team will be capped long term by how much effort and success BI/Zion have defensively.

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Yup. I thought for a while last year that they should trade Ingram.

If the presumptive best 5 are:

McCollum
Ingram
Jones
Zion
Valanciunas

they will score a ton. They will also give up a ton because that's 4 weak to mediocre defenders. Just small improvements in give a damn from Zion and Ingram could help keep the offense ahead