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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2181437, member: 488"] He's a completely different level athlete than Bazz, obviously. Not just quickness but strength. Isaiah is built like a truck - he would have been a hell of a running back in a different world. It probably doesn't hurt that he's a south paw. I'm trying not to overreact to last night. Up until that explosion he had been fairly ordinary in the playoffs (perhaps his sister's passing had something to do with that). It remains to be seen whether last night was an outlier. I thought he actually held up pretty well defensively last night. But there is a big difference between 5'9 and 6'4 when you get later into the playoffs and positionless basketball starts to be come more prevalent. I'm not sure what Washington was doing last night was the way you go about defending him. I think you have a better chance of bottling him up by switching 1-4 with Oubre and Porter at the forward spots rather than Morris. It shouldn't be lost that Boston's other guards are tremendous defensively. Smart, Rozier, and Bradley's compete on that end is next level. But I keep flashing back to what OKC looked like games 3 and 4 against Golden State next year and it's impossible to shake that image. It was like they were from 2075 with their size and length. I just hope what this Boston team is doing can still be appreciated even if they never win a title with this roster, because it's a pretty ballsy group. [/QUOTE]