Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Yeah I mean, I get why people praise Lonzo defensively and he can be good, but he's not some superstar defender lockdown guy, and we all know that even if he was, there's only so much one guard can do.
Jrue wouldn't have allowed this. Hell, Jrue didn't allow this kind of thing: that's what an elite defender can do; even if he can't fix the entire defense, he can at least make opposing guards uncomfortable at the point of attack and pressure them a bit and not allow them free-reign over our entire defense.
We have nobody like that. Bledsoe is a sore disappointment and Jrue was robbed of All D last year, and Lonzo is just flat out not that calibre.