Deandre Ayton Discussion: This Is A Platform I Can't Run From

Step up in class with Holmgren and Hartenstein, coming up. Let's go big boy!!

 

Great job on the boards and even better job shutting down Mr Dirty Elbows.
We will need this kind of effort, with added scoring, to beat OKC.

 

HUGE series for Ayton next. If he plays well, he gets paid.

He's going to have to defend in multiple ways; firstly, I think he starts on Hartenstein - who averages around 24 mins a game. He's going to have to get him off the offensive rebounds (Hart averages 4-5 a game) while beating him in the PNR. Secondly, when Hart sits, he is going to have to guard one of Chet who's more comfortable on the perimeter. Lastly, they're going to make him switch out onto the perimeter, he's shown he can guard there, he just has to contest against SGA and Ajay Mitchell without fouling, just make it difficult for them in the paint without fouling.

We need him to average 10+ rebounds, take iHart out of the game and be able to switch.

Offensively I think he'll have a decent series, it could be great if he keeps offensively rebounding.

Maybe our most important player from the point of view of how much he can swing the series in our favour if he is at the top of his game.

 

I feel like Jax, due to his better speed, will get more burn this series.
However, I don’t think he’s defensively smart enough to handle what OKC will be doing.
It’s up to Ayton to play the best series(defensively) of his life so we have a chance. Our switching defensively as a team will also have to be on point every single game.

 

Deandre Ayton's NEVER Played Like THIS Before. (The Week DA Morphed Into Prime Tyson Chandler)

 

I think he may opt out. The market for Centers is very thin

 

Deandre Ayton On Marcus Smart’s Leadership, His Focus Against Thunder

 

I thought Ayton looked much better last night than he did in any of the OKC regular season games. I like what he's given us through 7 playoff games.

 

yeah, where was this guy for huge chunks of the season?

 

Brutal.

 

He's getting his arse kicked out there. He's basically our only inside presence and we need him to play better for us to even have a remote chance of making this series competitive.

 

That's a stupid tweet. He was 5/7 in game one with 12 rebounds and excellent defense. Tonight he was playing hard just shot badly. He still had 10 rebounds in 26mins - that's 14 over 36 mins.

Guys playing great, just had a bad shooting night.

 

When you are the starter and have ONE basket, no that's not a stupid tweet that's a stupid effort by your player.

Poor focus, terrible hands, let the physicality bother him, didn't do nearly at well against Chet or iHart.

 

The tweet is definitely stupid, we could pick some random arbitrary number where Reaves was 0-20 over two games. That kind of cherry picking is useless.

Yes Ayton didn’t have the best game. But he has been fantastic for the last 4 games before last night. He’s a real presence on both sides of the ball and he is bothering OKC on the offensive boards.

 

catastrophic game today, may have tanked all his value

and we do need to trade him for a defensive big.

 

Not a great game from DA, but I also think it doesn't help when we're getting beat on the perimeter and we're asking him to help and then they constantly pass to a cutter under the basket.

 

DeAndre can stay a Laker next year but coming off of the bench. Get a better center.