Quote tbihis wrote: View Post
thats up to the coach then. if Bargs can exploit matchups on offense, Triano should be able to evaluate who to put against opposing scoring bigs. sure there will be instances when bargs will have to defend the opposing scoring big but it happens. what im essentially saying is if they want bargs to remain on this team, they have to make adjustments based on his abilities. i mean for the love of god we all know how a "bad" defender he is, so if the team is going to gripe about it every single time then trade or release the guy. if he's still here, that means they want him to stay, so either get him Patrick Ewing or Alonzo Mourning to coach him on his defense, or switch matchup so he wont be exploited on defense. teams do it all the time. you can see it with kobe, lebron, wade. im not saying theyre not good defenders, but they dont "usually" put your star to guard the other team's star the whole game.
You're asking a hell of a lot from your coach. You can't "hide" a big on defense. Not for very long. And we're not talking about simply putting him on a weaker check. The problem is he can't play team defense, and that's where he'll end up killing you. Teams will attack him over and over. We've seen teams do it time and time again, this season. They'll run plays so that Bargnani is the one who has to help out on defense. And that usually results in a score. And no matter how strong defenders his teammates are, teams will always figure out ways to attack him.

In the playoffs, it gets even worse. Any weaknesses are exploited, and Bargnani's inability to defend will make it impossible to keep him on the floor for long periods, especially in crunch time. It's simply not worth it.