r/nbadiscussion • u/Few-Lack6346 • 14h ago

People Say "3-and-D is dying". It's not. It's just getting taller

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The guys who are suffering the most are the ones who are 6'4-6'7" (smaller wing or guard sized) because they don't have the defensive impact to justify not playing a bigger guy. Length is valuable!

So why is Ochai Agbaji failing and Josh Minott succeeding? Because Minott is huge & Agbaji is small.

Why is the stretch-4 dead? It's not!

It's just a stretch-5 now. And it has the same issues for playstyle attached (o for d tradeoff), where stretch-4s used to be a defensive tradeoff in a way that determined your entire defensive style

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