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Quote: Originally Posted by alabamarob

I am going back and forth on whether or not I like this or not. Call more fouls and lower the effectiveness of defenders without high interior defense ratings, and I would probably be good with it. They also need to spotlight the difference between Interior defense and shot blocking. Having high shot blocking numbers does not automatically make you a rim protector. Opponent FG at the rim stats don’t correlate with shot blocking numbers. A lot of shot blockers are foul prone. There are only a handful of guys who can protect the rim, not foul and block shots. What I don’t like is seeing DeMar Derozan make John Collins miss a layup simply by putting a hand up without jumping. So I don’t know if the issue is the lack of badges on bigs finishing around the rim or a contest issue at the rim.

100% agree

Javale has been a dominant 2K defender too long

but that’s a whoooole different topic altogether


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