Comments on: NBA Playoffs: Ron Artest was too strong, too smart for Durant, Thunder

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:30:08 +0000

Well, the results are in Matt- and Artest gave Durant the business way more often than not.

By: MattC

MattC — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:38:05 +0000

After 1 game this is the conclusion you want to draw? Are you sure? If Artest shuts Durant down the whole series or 3/4 4/5 games, then we can talk. Until now, pretty premature article.
Artest is a great defender, but I mean, come on…

By: Jason W.

Jason W. — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:07:33 +0000

I thought the Lakers bigs defending the picks was the most impressive part of the execution of the defensive game plan. You know what you’re getting from Artest defensively, and the Lakers got it. But you don’t always get Odom and Bynum (and even Gasol sometimes) fully committing to helping when their man sets a pick.
It helps that Durant hasn’t really internalized the idea of giving the ball up effectively when he comes off a set play and there’s three defenders waiting for him. L.A. surely knows this.