re: Kevin Love is a terrible defender (even worse than I thought)

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Either way, there is no excuse for what he did there and I have a hard time believing it had to do with skill on defense.

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I think that ridiculous play is just the best example of something he is now programmed to do. The guy plays no help defense. None. When he sees that a player is about to shoot (and often times this means they have gained an advantage on a defender), he crashes the boards. That time the man he needed to help had been completely beat, so he looked like an idiot crashing the boards.

And this also goes to my point about his reactions and instincts. As good as his offensive instincts and rebounding instincts are, his defensive ones are nonexistent. It's like watching someone who is playing basketball for the first time. If I was an NBA journalist with tons of time, I would write a very long and detailed article with tons of gifs on this. Unfortunately, I don't have the programs to make gifs super quickly from NBA League Pass.