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Brunson is a worse on ball defender than Hali. So is Tatum

In a "Team USA" situation where there are star players everywhere, there's zero reason to select, play or start Brunson over Tyrese. He does nothing better in that setting where you don't want players to be ball dominant one man teams.
 

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It wasn't many games yet to judge for Clark, but it seems they both took huge step forward on defense this year.

Tyrese for sure has, in the couple games I saw CC this year she was doing just fine on defense and seems obviously stronger.

Yeah, when they pulled Haliburton at the end of game 1 I don't think it was because they thought he was a liability; it's just with, what - 3 seconds left on the clock with the lead they weren't getting the ball back again and there were just better defensive options.
 

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Yeah, when they pulled Haliburton at the end of game 1 I don't think it was because they thought he was a liability; it's just with, what - 3 seconds left on the clock with the lead they weren't getting the ball back again and there were just better defensive options.

Yeah it's their team philosophy, they sub in tyrese for a few seconds on offense sometimes too. Unless he's right under the basket he's a plus player on defense now. He's actually among the top players in playoffs for total blocks and blocks per game.
 

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really cool story and regardless of your CC opinions, she is the face of womens basketball at the moment and tyrese is currently one of the main storylines for the most popular global sport. the purdy thing was a bigger deal for america, but people in china, austrailia, europe, etc know about tyrese and what he is doing. really rare times we are living in as beholders of this origin story for both.
 

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The way they closed out fourth quarter game 3 and the way the bench sped them up in the second, wasn’t sure that was possible for Indy to do against THIS team.

I believe. Hope it happens tonight. But believe they get the series. Yes ‘cer
 
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Indy hasn't had a truly red hot 3 point shooting game yet in Finals.

Before series that's the only way the "experts" said they could possibly win.