re: Josh Hart with 23 points in his Blazers debut

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Right. The only difference here is you think he can step up and be a plus defender. I don't

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I mean this isn’t really debatable though, he was a good to very good defender in LA. It’s simply a matter of will, effort, and priority.

Lebron was in his arse about defending in LA and the Lakers had him out there guarding guys like Kyrie:
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He is more than capable, and as we move toward a CJ/Herb/BI/Zion/JV unit, he is going to have to find that sort of dog again if we are to make it deep into the playoffs. And for me, when Zion gets healthy and you have CJ and Jonas as well, the excuse well runs dry for his lack of pride and hiding himself

So yes we agree, and yes we seem to disagree, because BI has high defensive potential and we’ve actually seen him realize it when he wants to….problem is he rather focus on offense and rest on defense and that needs to stop sooner than later.

He and Herb should be a nightmare opposing teams fear, instead, we are desperately trying to see if Naji or others can step up and help provide the lost Hart role of taking the second assignment so BI can stay hiding on the Pj Tucker’s of the world