ptctitan wrote:If they were equal or better defensively than Hogan and Tariiq, then they would have been playing more minutes.
That's a crazy statement. Josh is 5x the defender of JJJ, yet JJJ gets the minutes. Why is he getting the minutes? is a question that many of us ask... but the reason is certainly not his defensive prowess. Yet, your comment implies that the best defenders are the players on the court which is obviously not an accurate statement. If defense were the primary criteria for gaining minutes, then Cole Long and Isaiah Jones would have played much more than they have.
Listen, I get that (as a huge BA slappy) you will do whatever you can to apply good performances to BA and find reasons to discount bad performances. You're taking it a bit too far in this case by implying that nearly two seasons into his tenure, any change in personnel should equate in the group being given time to gel before grading their defensive performance.
I would actually suggest that IF BA has designs on instituting a high level defense, the best opportunity to judge progress is when individual players are unavailable and backups are forced to play.