re: Pels hire Robert Pack as assistant

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Love how some people think if you hire a coach known for once coaching good defense, then all of a sudden everyone on the team will be great at defense. Sorry but I don't think a coach will make tyreke evans and Eric Gordon play better defense, they just aren't defensive talented players.

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Dude, brah. It's about hiding weaknesses as much as anything. Gordon is actually a better defender than the numbers suggest, especially when it comes to team defense. He often got caught up squeezing down to cover up for failed rotations at the top of the defense. He's never going to be a Bruce Bowen type, but he's not somebody who needs 4 plus defenders to mask severe deficiencies on his part.

As for Tyreke, I don't think he'll ever get it defensively. He just never really exerts himself there always seems drained at the end of games, even though he doesn't really spend a lot of time running off screens on the offensive end. He's just not a high energy, fast twitch guy. That's never going to change.