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Should we rest Holiday in an unimportant game? He has defended a lot of bigs which might be the reason for his recent shooting slump.
I genuinely believe that his insistence on defensive matchups is becoming a detriment to both himself and the team. While he’s capable of defending bigs intermittently, I don’t want him to stick with that matchup throughout the entire game as you said it clearly hurts him offensively as well.
For instance, in the game against the Raptors, Siakam was consistently killing him. Tatum and Brown are objectively better defending Siakam, yet Holiday repeatedly chose to mark him. (Holiday himself mentioned Joe Mazzulla encouraging him to select defensive matchups.)
My concern is in scenarios like a playoff series where Butler might kill us because Holiday prefers guarding him, despite Tatum being more effective at defending him.