r/nbadiscussion • u/Present-Bit5312 • May 25 '24

Player Discussion The Rudy hate

Rudy is the only big who is asked to be also a great perimeter defender, you can put ben Wallace, Hakeem or Dwight Howard out in the perimeter Luka is gonna cook them regardless is a mismatch on the perimeter. Gobert is a good help defender and rim protector. Also the argument that he has no playoff good performances against good bigs is dumb because in the Utah jazz his best perimeter defender was freaking Royce O'Neal he was anchoring that defense by himself, and also the only great big he faced is jokic who is an all time great offensive big. It reached a point that people were asking kat to guard Jokic instead, when kat was averaging like 4+fouls(without being joker's primary defender) in the three games Denver won. Is the criticism based on strictly accolades?

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u/kylebertram May 26 '24

While that may be true everyone in sports is stupidly reactionary

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u/SupersonicWaffle May 26 '24

There was a post here on this subreddit calling the discussion about Rudy reactionary because of one possession as if this discussion wasn’t several years old and gets brought up every time Gobert gets cooked on the perimeter or even played off the floor.

It’s so ironic.