Dude is an absolute dog on defense but just isn’t very good

He reminds me of that guy you play pick up with that literally identifies with the guys he listed like Smart or AB but just doesn’t know what he’s doing so it’s all effort for nothing

He’s a ball chaser, doesn’t have defensive IQ. Something that both Bradley and Smart are elite at, although Smart is on a whole other level because he’s a great off ball defender as well while Bradley mostly was on ball.

Exactly. Does he intend to pull a Ron Harper when he left the clippers? Harper at least was a good defender before he went to the bulls

His energy is his biggest strength. The kind of player that makes his team wanna play harder.

But he’s small and sometimes he’s kinda dumb out there.

His energy kicks ass tho.

He can still improve,. especially defensively.

You know what’s crazy though - no shot did I think Jordan Clarkson would be like a mini Josh Hart in the playoffs, but he did a great job when his whole career he was viewed as a revolving door on defense.

I will always love sexton on the Jazz because he was the leader the young guys needed. Will always remember when Taylor Hendricks broke his leg in the freak accident, everyone was walking around horrified but he actively pulled the guys into a huddle for some sort of solidarity/prayer. Will never question the guy’s heart to always want to do what is best.

He has also had horrible luck in terms of success in the NBA. He always either goes to teams that made the playoffs the season before and miss it the season he joins onwards (Cavs, Jazz), or gets traded to a team that has no chance of making the playoffs/playins (Bulls). 8 years in and still 0 playoff appearances (also Markkanen) ans this is by far his best chance of making it with the Lakers but if they end up missing the playoffs, you know why…

i don’t agree that he’s a net negative on the floor at all. He’ll basically get you buckets, and pretty efficiently. but he’s a 6th man scorer that has basically always been asked to start on terrible teams… he’s had some rotten luck in his career.

The teams he’s been on went:

19-63, 19-46, 22-50, 44-38 (missed basically the whole season with injury), 37-45, 31-51, 17-65, and then last season was traded from a 44-38 team to a 31-51 team.

He’s a good player, just not viable as the primary playmaker.

He breaks the offensive set, is a ball stopper, never even considers swing passes

He scores efficiently statistically, but not in terms of offensive flow, Kevin Love was so frustrated with him in Cleveland lol

He’s the Jamal Crawford of Cam Thomas’s

This sounds like DLo wanting to be like Derrick White

When Avery Bradley could score he was fun to watch

lol… you’re not serious are you?

Maybe show her show sexton.

Which rapper you gonna suck?

Take care of yourself and get some rest soon friend!

hard to answer, Brook Lopez as a rim protector got better with age.

Kyle Kuzma became passable under Frank Vogel, after being a rubber traffic bollard under Luke Walton. still far away from Scottie Barnes or Kawhi or OG level of defense

naw

defense is like playmaking

you can learn how to set your feet, learn basic movements, you can learn how to make various passes, lead players

but you either have the spark or the IQ for it or you don’t, it’s not really something you can learn

you can get stronger, get faster, you can learn shooting mechanics and practice shooting

but having the instincts to pass and defend just aren’t something you can get

good examples are guys with a lot of minutes and great offensive talents like durant and luka

durant is a phenomenal offensive player, but for his entire career he’s been just fucking god awful at double teams despite being tall as fuck and you’d think able to look over/pass over anyone just like he can shoot over them ,but nope, it’s a huge flaw and he just doesn’t have the passing instinct

luka is a great passer and is a great playmaker with all the tools, but for whatever reason he can just turn into a giant fucking dingus and be among the leaders or lead the league in turnvoers like every year because he’ll do some very stupid passes that guys like CP3 and magic or even lebron just never really did for a majority of their careers as consistently

even when you have the tools, it doesn’t always translate fully, sometimes even partially

luka’s instincts just tell him to do some batshit passes sometimes, sexton seems like his instinct just tells him to chase the ball or something lol

so it’s pretty rare you’ll see someone blossom into a playmaker or defender, especially compared to shooting

Landry Shamet this past year?

Not 0-to-Marcus Smart, but Jordan Clarkson’s postseason minutes were 90% hustle plays and 10% bucket-getting. If Clarkson can have a championship postseason with more offensive rebounds than turnovers, I don’t see why Sexton can’t figure out something in the defensive end. JJ’s pretty strict about rotations, so it’s a good spot for Sexton to figure it out if he’s ever going to

That was wild. Never seen anything like it

He can. Now does he play it well

He’s below average but he’s a better defender that what we have trotted out in past years

That’s him

i’ll be sleeping with Sofia Vergara