'Great sign' for a rookie: Alex Caruso praises Ayo Dosunmu's defense
The second-round pick out of Illinois displayed his defensive chops during his rookie campaign.
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I don't care what metric they used. Ayo is not weak defensively.
Seriously, he basically put Trae Young in his back pocket
It's not that it can't happen, but that is likely when the biggest jump occurs. Just like Freshman to Sophomore in college. At the highest level of pro sports, if you don't carve out a role quickly, you will get passed in short order. If everything else is equal, they will play the younger guy 100% of the time.
Ayo good on D against point guards but not so much when he got switched to a longer 3 or 4 which happened a lot.
Being a good college defender and a good NBA defender are two different things.
That's probably true. He seemed to bother smaller players more. He has to defend to at least 3 but he will have time to learn. I think he will be fine.
True....but you and I know he's gonna be both....
I don't know that. He's only been in the NBA one season. There's no guarantee he's going to be a good NBA defender at this point.
Agreed but has he failed at getting better...or afraid of hard work to get there yet? I'm betting on him....
I was referring to his NBA defense.
And that's fine if you wanna bet on him. But hard work only gets you so far in the NBA.
I know you said that you didn't care about the analytics but the analytics didn't say he was an overall bad defender but that he was just lacking in two certain areas.
Someone suggested it indicated his defense was weak. Perhaps not. My eyes told me his on ball defense was outstanding. His off ball defense needs some work. Overall it was good, especially for a rookie.
He averaged 2.4 drb in 27.4 mpg primarily as a PG. I am not sure why that is bad. The +/- (-2.6) can be misleading.
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So, to clarify, this is showing he's terrible at on ball defense, right? ... right?
I mean, he's kinda all by himself over there.....
I think he’s in the middle on defending LeBron...don't understand this graft....lol
sacraig
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I think it means that he's exceptionally terrible at guarding Lebron for how exceptionally great he is at on-ball defense in general.
But I'm not sure because this is a terrible plot.
Very disappointing...And here I thought the Bulls drafted Ayo to lock down Lebron....Invaluable data.
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Looks more mediocre at guarding lebron, no? He’s just below the midpoint.
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I meant considering how good he is in general. You'd think he would follow the trend but his "D-Lebron" is considerably worse than others with comparable overall on-ball D.
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How many times did he guard Lebron? Very limited sample set I'm assuming.
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