re: Alvin lit a fire under AD last night

Jrue is very good at switching onto bigger players. This isn't the first time he's made Dirk miss, he's done it to plenty of other bigger guys too like Deng and even LeBron. He's physical enough to body them up and crafty enough to pull the chair. I'm not sure he'd do well covering these guys as an assignment, but on occasional switches they expect to attack him like most smaller players and he gives them more than they're expecting.

Switching is the way defenses are going, because if you can't switch you'll be taken advantage of. That's why the Pick and Roll is the bread and butter play for most of the NBA, it lets you put a team's defensive weak link in the line of fire.