Looking for reassurance from anyone who has watched a lot of the trailblazers in the playoffs. I get that it’s regular season, but he’s a complete liability on defense. I’m not expecting him to be Jrue Holiday on D, but he doesn’t seem to care about stopping his assignment while driving let alone playing off ball D or rotating to an open defender. It’d be impossible for him not to play somewhat better in the playoffs, but how much better is it?
Not really, he always seems to conserve energy by playing poor defense to use on the other end.
Even in Game 5 vs Nuggets where he had one of the all time playoff performances he was letting Rivers get easy buckets in that game and the series when he was matched up against him from what I remember.