As the Cavaliers open the season in Toronto tonight, there’s ample win-now optimism at the moment—more than there’s been in perhaps decades in Cleveland without LeBron on the roster, Herring_NBA writes:
on defense in Oklahoma City.) Rightly or wrongly, the guard says he’ll have more capacity to exert himself on that end with this group.
It isn’t enough to assume the team’s talented bigs, Mobley and Allen, can clean up every mess that spills over into the paint. First, Bickerstaff could use the same staggered thinking with those two that he plans to deploy for Garland and Mitchell, meaning there might often be just one of them on the court at a time.
As a defender, Mobley showed unusually high IQ and mobility as a rookie big man last season, giving Bickerstaff leeway to pull from more rarely used game plans. The coach utilized 3–2 zone looks, with Mobley serving as the point man at the top of the alignment—an idea he got from working alongside the late Flip Saunders in Minnesota, where Kevin Garnett showcased freakish defensive ability. That Mobley replicated that style of play for a top-five defense as a rookie speaks volumes.
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