re: Josh Hart with 23 points in his Blazers debut

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Ingram should be better, but I don't see him as ever being much more than average.

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The thing is that later in LA he was a good to very good defender.

The thing here is for three seasons we’ve basically treated him Like the Warriors used to do with Curry, and hide him on the opposing teams worst offensive non-center.

Which was fine when you had Jrue/Lonzo, Lonzo/Hart, and Hart/Herb. But we just have Herb now, Herb is foul prone and not being given the benefit of whistles, and that means we need someone to step up and take the second assignment and do it at a solid level. And that really can only be BI right now.

And ultimately what SVG and other observers have said is true, our team will be capped long term by how much effort and success BI/Zion have defensively.

If both are just going to be one-way players, hiding themselves on the defense, we are going to be running into hard walls in the playoffs and getting bounced to the point the duo simply won’t cut it.

And frankly there just is no excuse period, when guys like Brown and Tatum are also of high usage and putting in maximal effort defensively as well