Thursday, March 24, 2011  Off Day(s) Puzzler  Do the Atlanta
Hawks struggle because they aren't assignment-sound or do the
Atlanta Hawks struggle because they aren't assigned well?
Bronn said...  Both, and one feeds the other. Hard to listen to
a coach when he's laying out his defensive assignments, and you
have long stretches where Jamal Crawford is asked to guard guys
like Raymond Felton and Derrick Rose, who will repeatedly go
past him. Then Larry Drew will see guys inside trying harder to
show harder on screens, resulting in the interior defense being
shredded, so he does something like remove Marvin Williams to
put in Zaza Pachulia and add some size around the basket.
Ronald said...  I guess this is another way of asking: is it the
players or the coach? I'm going with the coach. It isn't Jeff
Teague's fault he gets a DNP-CD while Jamal Crawford plays the
entire fourth quarter of games while failing to defend anybody
successfully, taking too many long jumpers, and missing most of
them.  Matt DeFore sai