Yours is certainly an interesting point of view, but don’t you find it refreshing that someone is writing something other than endless (and to me, boring) spin about nicknames and the length of Baron Davis’ beard? We’ve spoken a bit about this before and I believe, you, mwhite are a studier of defenses… no? It was you who recommended watching Shane Battier for his defensive skills… his elegant and accurate rotations? Difficult to quantify? Sure. That’s actually what makes defense so interesting. Yet, almost everyone agrees, great teams play great defense.
In the single year in recent memory the Clippers were actually good, they played suffocating defense, such good defense they pushed the genius of Mike D’Antoni and Steve Nash to seven games. I’ve always wondered why that team, with a really slow and poor defender like Sam Cassel on the floor could defend so well. Kevin Arnovitz offers a reason why. He’s also one of the best pure writers working in blogdom (and there are some good ones, many contributing to this site).
He does give Marcus Camby backhand kudos which he might not really deserve… even I can see the guy’s not much of an on-ball or man defender. But, mwhite, defense is your metier, your bailiwick, isn’t it? Do you disagree with Arnovitz subject-matter… or his conclusions?
The only annoying thing about Arnovitz to me, is his unwillingness to engage in discussion, unlike Master Perrin over here in Clipsnation. KA is more a traditional columnist in that way… Clipperblog is primarily a one-way pipeline. So if you really want to disagree with the guy… you’re kind of out of luck. Even DJ Foster, KA’s estimable backup, comes over here to argue. No big deal of course, just an observation.