Napear interviews Karl on defense?

[bajaden]

The switching is fine, now, it's the coach who has been putting in two PG's that keep getting switched onto much bigger players. Any issue with switching has been from Karls own mistakes.

When you add it all up, from his constant lineup tinkering (even with no injuries) then blaming the random lineups as a reason they suck, and then onto this, you really have to wonder don't you?

I think you missed his point. He wasn't addressing the size match up, he was talking about the guards not being aggressive enough after a switch. I get that you don't like the match up situation, and neither do I, but that's a different issue than what Karl was talking about. As for the lineup tinkering, non injury related, most came early in the season when he was still trying to figure out a rotation. Of late, it seems like every time he settles on a rotation, someone goes down with an injury, or gets suspended for a game. Of late, he seems to have settled on a bench rotation.

Our main problem is still our defense. Offensively, at times, we look very good. Of late I've seen more ball and player movement than I haven't seen since the Vlade/Webber days. They don't seem to be able to sustain it for an entire game yet, but at least you can see moments of what Karl is trying to do offensively. Our turnovers are starting to go down and our assists are up. All good indicators. If we can improve defensively, we'll start winning more games than we lose. So I'm back to being optimistic. Last nights game shouldn't have been as close as it was, but we won, and a month from now, it will look the same in the win column as a blow out win.

 

[SacTownKid]

I think you missed his point. He wasn't addressing the size match up, he was talking about the guards not being aggressive enough after a switch. I get that you don't like the match up situation, and neither do I, but that's a different issue than what Karl was talking about. As for the lineup tinkering, non injury related, most came early in the season when he was still trying to figure out a rotation. Of late, it seems like every time he settles on a rotation, someone goes down with an injury, or gets suspended for a game. Of late, he seems to have settled on a bench rotation.

Our main problem is still our defense. Offensively, at times, we look very good. Of late I've seen more ball and player movement than I haven't seen since the Vlade/Webber days. They don't seem to be able to sustain it for an entire game yet, but at least you can see moments of what Karl is trying to do offensively. Our turnovers are starting to go down and our assists are up. All good indicators. If we can improve defensively, we'll start winning more games than we lose. So I'm back to being optimistic. Last nights game shouldn't have been as close as it was, but we won, and a month from now, it will look the same in the win column as a blow out win.

It doesn't matter how aggressive you are in switching, when you switch with an inherent size disadvantage at SG you might as well not switch because teams will just exploit the mismatch. You know, like the Charlotte game? That is one of the main problems with it, not aggressiveness. In that very same game it worked fantastically until he inserted Collison for Casspi. Then it circled right down the drain.