re: SVG calls out Zion and Ingram for defense and turnovers

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at what point do you just stop leaving dudes wide open

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Look at the clips of what Zion is doing, he is ball watching hard most of the time on the missed and late rotations. He's not doing it because he's a moron, he's doing it because he's checking "do I need to help? do I need to help? do I need to help?" and loses track of his man in the process.

Sindarius Thornwell commented on the defense last week saying right now they're helping a lot on drives when they don't need to. They'll eventually get to the point where they'll know their teammates well enough to know if they've been beaten and need help or not. So what Thornwell is saying is a big responsibility of the defense is checking to see if you need to help, and that appears to be what Zion is getting stuck on. In time he should get enough experience and coaching that he'll have a better balance between checking to help and checking his own man.