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[QUOTE="auror, post: 4013150, member: 1329"]
The narratives about the Buck's defense changes are so incredibly overblown.

Here's what actually happened: The Suns scored 118 or 119 every game they've been home, and they've scored 100 and 103 on the road, because they made 3s at home and missed 3s on the road (29 and 30% from 3 on road, 32, 50, and 68% at home).

Holiday is a very good defender, but whomever of the Suns 2 guards he hasn't been guarding has been torching them. The Bucks didn't stop them, just outscored them last game on the road, thanks to all 3 of their guys having good games in the same game for the first time all series.

The one thing that is partially a credit to the Bucks and partially a demerit to the Suns, is that the Suns have stopped getting to the FT line as the series has gone on. The Bucks letting Booker go ISO without fouling is part of it, and so I think that's the one aspect of a defensive tweak that has been strong (even though he's scoring 1.2ppp on ISO, so it's not working out THAT well and the Suns haven't gotten the end of game winning time FTs either in last 3 so the effect is exaggerated).
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